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"A young Indigenous girl searching for a sense of home finds strength and courage in her gifts, her deepening connection to the land, and her own cultural awakening in this moving coming-of-age story. The last thing that twelve-year-old Misko wants to do is to move away from the city to spend time on the rez with her grandmother. She feels strangely compelled to go to the place where her dreams have been tugging at her to come home. Maybe she can...
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"Tsimshian storyteller and artist Roy Henry Vickers shares an adventure from his childhood in the Indigenous village of Kitkatla, on BC's north coast. When Uncle Johnny accidentally catches an orphaned sea lion pup in his fishing net, young Roy and his cousin Bussy take responsibility for nursing the tiny creature back to health. They name the pup Ben, short for Teeben--the Tsimshian word for sea lion. With the boys' loving care, Ben eats and eats...
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Mothers of Xsan volume 4
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English
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"To the Gitxsan of Northwestern British Columbia, Nox Ga'naaw is a storyteller, speaking truths of the universe. After Nox Ga'naaw, the frog mother, releases her eggs among the aquatic plants of a pond, the tiny tadpoles are left to fend for themselves. As they hatch, grow legs, and transform into their adult selves, they must avoid the mouths of hungry predators. Will the young frogs survive to lay their own eggs, continuing a cycle 200 million years...
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950L
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"In the fifth book of the Mothers of Xsan series, award-winning author Hetxw'ms Gyetxw (Brett D. Huson) introduces young readers to a pack of grey wolves. New pups have just begun to open their eyes, one of which is a striking black female. Every day, her ears grow larger, her eyesight gets sharper, and her legs stretch farther. As she learns to hunt, play, and run with her pack, instinct pulls her to explore beyond her home territory. Will the young...
6) Simiakia
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It was not whimsy that had brought him together with this red horse to run this race. It was the justice of time.
Raised without hope or pride in his heritage to what promises to be a short life of crime, alcohol, and drugs, Nez Perce teenager Al George gets an unexpected second chance.
A heist gone wrong ends up with Al working on probation at the very Idaho ranch he and his "friends" tried to rob, owned by Celia Bolt, who left her own rich-but-dysfunctional...
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Mothers of Xsan volume 2
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IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
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"An engaging look at how the animals, people, and seasons within an ecosystem are intertwined. To the Gitxsan people of Northwestern British Columbia, the grizzly is an integral part of the natural landscape. Together, they share the land and forests that the Skeena River runs through, as well as the sockeye salmon within it. Follow the grizzly mother as she teaches her cubs what they need to survive on their own" --
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Piujuq is a kind young woman who loves to take long walks on the tundra and dance by her favourite lake surrounded by butterflies. But one day, she encounters a stranger on her walk. When this person asks a favour of Piujuq, she happily obliges, and that kindness leaves Piujuq stuck in the body of a caterpillar. Alone, and thinking that no one could ever love her because of how she looks, Piujuq does not return to her camp. Instead,
...9) Hawk
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2016
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2018 Red Maple Award — Shortlisted 2017 Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award — Winner, Young Adult Category
CCBC's Best Books for Kids & Teens (Fall 2016)
When a First Nations teen rescues a fish-hawk from a tailings pond in Alberta's oil sands, he has no idea that soon they will both be fighting for their lives.
As a cross-country runner, Adam aims to win gold in the upcoming provincial championship....
When a First Nations teen rescues a fish-hawk from a tailings pond in Alberta's oil sands, he has no idea that soon they will both be fighting for their lives.
As a cross-country runner, Adam aims to win gold in the upcoming provincial championship....
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2016
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Short-listed for the Silver Birch Award, Moonbeam Children's Book Award, CCBC Best Books for Kids & Teens Award, and the MYRCA 2016 Award
"With Red Wolf, Jennifer Dance has come howling out of the wilderness ... and I'm deeply impressed." — Joseph Boyden, Giller Prize–winning author
Jennifer Dance's White Feather books have amazed readers with their portrayals of young people in Native communities and their...
"With Red Wolf, Jennifer Dance has come howling out of the wilderness ... and I'm deeply impressed." — Joseph Boyden, Giller Prize–winning author
Jennifer Dance's White Feather books have amazed readers with their portrayals of young people in Native communities and their...
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When a mother and daughter find a polar bear cub alone on the sea ice, the daughter cannot bear to leave it behind. Finding no mother bear in sight, the two adopt the cub and raise it as the girl's brother.
The cub and the girl become fast friends-even if the cub's bear sense of smell always means he wins at hide-and-seek! The cub hunts for the community, and they never want for food. But the cub continues to grow, and eventually he is no longer...
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In Bedtime in Nunatsiavut, a little girl named Nya yearns to fly, swim, and wander like the goose, salmon, bear, fox, and other animals that populate her world. Each night, her loving Anânak (mother) tucks her into bed and gives her a kunik (nose-to-nose rub) to help Nya dream and transform into the animals she longs to be like.
In Nya's dreams, she moves with the wonder and the freedom of the natural world, dancing beneath the dark Nunatsiavut...
13) Red Wolf
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Moonbeam Children's Book Awards 2014 - Silver Medal Forest of Reading, Silver Birch Awards - Shortlisted MYRCA Award 2016 - Shortlisted Chosen for the Toronto Public Library's 2015 Great Reads for Kids collection "With Red Wolf, Jennifer Dance has come howling out of the wilderness … and I'm deeply impressed." - Joseph Boyden, Giller Prize–winning author Life is changing for Canada's Anishnaabek Nation and for the wolf packs that share their territory....
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Beautiful and hilarious, tearful and rambunctious, very real, ironic and magic-filled, MartÍn Prechtel's new book The Mare and the Mouse is a series of lyrical sagas in tribute to each of the native New Mexican horses that carried him through his youth on the Reservation and then again during the difficult times following his return home after over a decade in the Mayan Highlands of Guatemala. First, in the Stories of My Horses Series, The Mare and...
15) Forever our home
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"This gentle picture book lullaby, in both Plains Cree and English, is a celebration of the plants and animals of the Prairies and a meditation on the sacred, ancestral connections between Indigenous children and their traditional territories"--
16) Shadow Riders
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In 1874, after their father is wounded by hard men who have stolen a number of mares and Smokey, a prized stallion, sixteen-year-old Rob McCann and his adopted Native brother, Luke, ride frantically to Fort Ellice, Manitoba, in the vain expectation that the horse rustlers have stopped there. Learning that a new force called the North-West Mounted Police has come west, the brothers continue south to locate them and ask for help. The NWMP commander,...
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First published in 1935, "The Adventures of Sajo and her Beaver People" is a children's adventure novel by British author Grey Owl. With beautiful illustrations also by Grey Owl, the story is based on the real-life experiences of a young Ojibwe Indian girl called Sajo and her older brother who adopt two baby beavers, Chilawee and Chikanee, in an attempt to save them from fur traders. It was translated into numerous European languages including Polish...
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The Horse Indians talks about the Comanche Indians, who are responsible for populating the Pacific Northwest with horses brought to the New World by the Spanish Conquistadors in 1550 A.D. Comanche warriors drove thousands of Mustangs north to their Shoshoni Indian cousins and the Shoshonis, in turn, held trade fairs on a large island on the Snake River. In this way, horses were dispersed to many Indians from the surrounding tribes. The Arapaho, Bannock,...
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In “The Mare and the Mouse”, Prechtel sets loose his mystical memoir of a few mixed-breed horses who transform into allies of mythic proportions by his one-of-a-kind style of maneuvering through the rugged beauty of New Mexico. Together, they out-canter disillusionment and bitter despair, coursing into a dawn of beauty and humor.
This second book, “The Wild Rose”, continues the saga of re-finding the horses of Prechtel's reservation-youth,...
20) Pocahontas
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Pocahontas was the daughter of Chief Powhatan, the leader of many tribes. Pocahontas loved nature and spent much time at the creek watching the beavers. She meets a small beaver and they become friends. One day, while visiting the beaver, she realized hunters have destroyed the beaver's lodge. Her friend is alive but has been injured. Pocahontas nurses him back to health but becomes distraught when she learns her tribe as agreed to give food to the...
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