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Danny Blackgoat volume 1.
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2014 Middle School honor
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Danny Blackgoat, a sixteen-year-old Navajo, is labeled a troublemaker during the Long Walk of 1864 and sent to a prisoner outpost in Texas, where fellow captive Jim Davis saves him from a bully and starts him on the road to literacy--and freedom.
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2014 Young Adult honor
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Seventh-grader Lewis "Shoe" Blake from the Tuscarora Reservation has a new friend, George Haddonfield from the local Air Force base, but in 1975 upstate New York there is a lot of tension and hatred between Native Americans and Whites--and Lewis is not sure that he can rely on friendship.
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2014 Young Adult honor
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"A heart-healing, mocs-on-the-ground story of music, family and friendship." -- Cynthia Leitich Smith, author of Tantalize and Rain is Not My Indian Name. Lewis "Shoe" Blake is used to the joys and difficulties of life on the Tuscarora Indian reservation in 1975: the joking, the Fireball games, the snow blowing through his roof. What he's not used to is white kids being nice to him -- kids like George Haddonfield, whose family recently moved to town...
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2012 Picture Book winner
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Recounts a winter when the author, having outgrown her winter coat, finds a gray fur coat in the donation boxes, only to have a classmate claim it before she can.
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2012 Young Adult winner
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A memoir in which Adam Fortunate Eagle, one of the leaders of the Native American takeover of Alcatraz Island in 1969, provides an account of his experiences as a student at Pipestone Indian Boarding School in Minnesota between 1935 and 1945.
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2010 Picture Book winner
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Excited about having his friends at his house in the wood for a solstice party, clever Coyote is surprised when a little girl suddenly appears in their midst, but when she invites them to go with her on a trip to a local mall, Coyote mistakenly thinks that all the goodies he sees are his for the taking.
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2008 Picture Book winner
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In the 1800s, a Choctaw girl becomes friends with a slave boy from a plantation across the great river, and when she learns that his family is in trouble, she helps them cross to freedom.
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2008 General winner
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Meet Joseph Medicine Crow, a man raised in two worlds: according to the Crow Indian traditions and according to White man's rules.
90. Counting Coup
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2008 General winner
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Picture a Crow Indian elder, his wizened eyes catching yours in the ancient flicker of firelight. His mesmerizing stories span the ages, from Custer to World War II to the 21st Century. He is the last traditional chief of his people. He is over 90 years old. Now picture that same man lecturing at colleges nationwide, and addressing the United Nations on the subject of peace. National Geographic presents the amazing life story of Joseph Medicine Crow,...
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Birchbark house volume 1.
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2006 Middle School winner
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This National Book Award finalist by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Louise Erdrich is the first installment in an essential nine-book series chronicling 100 years in the life of one Ojibwe family, and includes beautiful interior black-and-white artwork done by the author. She was named Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop. Omakayas and her family live on an island in Lake Superior. Though there are growing numbers of white people...