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"Botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer's best-selling book Braiding Sweetgrass is adapted for a young adult audience by children's author Monique Gray Smith, bringing Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the lessons of plant life to a new generation"--
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2021
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In this extraordinary memoir, best-selling author Nicola I. Campbell deftly weaves rich poetry and vivid prose into a story basket of memories orating what it means to be an intergenerational survivor of Indian Residential Schools.
If the hurt and grief we carry is a woven blanket, it is time to weave ourselves anew. We can't quit. Instead, we must untangle ourselves from the negative forces that have impacted our existence as Indigenous people.
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When his mother passed away at the age of 78, Sherman Alexie responded the only way he knew how: he wrote. The result is this memoir. Featuring 78 poems and 78 essays, Alexie shares raw, angry, funny, profane, tender memories of a childhood few can imagine -- growing up dirt-poor on an Indian reservation, one of four children raised by alcoholic parents. Throughout, a portrait emerges of his mother as a beautiful, mercurial, abusive, intelligent,...
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One Bead at a Time is the oral memoir of Beverly Little Thunder, a two-spirit Lakota Elder from Standing Rock, who has lived most of her life in service to Indigenous and non-Indigenous women in vast areas of both the United States and Canada. Transcribed and edited by two-spirit Métis writer Sharron Proulx-Turner, Little Thunder's narrative is told verbatim, her melodious voice and keen sense of humour almost audible overtop of the text on the page....
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Este relato autobiográfico es sobre una vida tan "normal" como cualquier otra. Sin embargo, a los 28 años, súbitamente, durante un paseo por la ciudad, Pablo desmaya sin razón aparente. Lo peor está por comenzar: descubren un tumor en el oído interno ya bastante crecido y hay que operar. Producto del gran tamaño del tumor, pierde la audición en ese oído y una parálisis facial y otras complicaciones motrices lo acompañarán, como resultado...
6) Lakota Woman
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Mary Brave Bird grew up fatherless in a one-room cabin, without running water or electricity, on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Rebelling against the aimless drinking, punishing missionary school, narrow strictures for women, and violence and hopeless of reservation life, she joined the new movement of tribal pride sweeping Native American communities in the sixties and seventies. Mary eventually married Leonard Crow Dog, the American...
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The elders in Those Who Know have devoted their lives to preserving the wisdom and spirituality of their ancestors. Despite insult and oppression, they have maintained sometimes forbidden practices for the betterment of not just their people, but all humankind.
First published in 1991, Dianne Meili's book remains an essential portrait of men and women who have lived on the trapline, in the army, in a camp on the move, in jail, in residential schools,...
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Standing Bear's dismay at the condition of his people, when after sixteen years' absence he returned to the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation, may well have served as a catalyst for the writing of this book, first published in 1933. In addition to describing the customs, manners, and traditions of the Teton Sioux, Standing Bear also offered more general comments about the importance of native cultures and values and the status of Indian people in American...
12) I Am Cycuse
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"I am Cycuse" is a powerful story about the struggles of a strong, native Makah woman in the early 19th century in the farthest reaches of the Pacific Northwest territory of the American colonies. Her great, great Grandson, Steven Cramer, shares this passionate telling of her entire life as she watched her family, heritage, traditions, and spirituality collapse before her eyes. This deeply personal story displays her love, hate, and adventures in...
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José (Shushei) Mailhot, une Blanche chez les Innus, apprend leur langue et entre dans le cercle de leur vie. Un récit brûlant de vérité qui aide à comprendre la relation entre le Québec et les Premières Nations. Shushei au pays des Innus ouvre une fenêtre sur les communautés innues: leur langue, leur légende, leur culture. José Mailhot, traductrice d'An Antane Kapesh, témoigne de son apprentissage du monde.
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Randy Chung Gonzales was leading an ordinary life in his hometown of Lamas, Peru, when his employer, anthropologist Frédérique Apffel-Marglin, asked him to accompany her to an ayahuasca ceremony led by a local shaman. There, to everyone's great surprise, Randy was initiated by discarnate entities, who instructed him and gave him healing powers. In this unique book, Randy tells his story to Frédérique, who offers cultural context and describes...
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A controversial figure in his day, Black Hawk was the leader of the Sauk American Indian tribe in the early 1800s. The son of the tribes medicine man, Black Hawkas exploits as a warrior aided his rise to the status of tribal war leader. Here, Black Hawk chronicles his life as well as the story of his tribe, who were forced from their lands in Illinois during a series of skirmishes with American settlers in what came to be known as the Black Hawk War....
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Reveals the development of Maurice Kenny's growing artistic consciousness, while attesting to both the beauty and brutality of the world in which he lived.
Maurice Kenny's career as a writer, teacher, publisher, and storyteller spanned more than six decades, during which he published over thirty books and became one of the most prominent voices in American poetry. From the early 1970s onward, he was instrumental in the resurgence of Native American...
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Did you know that it was a Native American who accompanied the famed duo Lewis and Clark in exploring Louisiana? What do you think the other natives felt, when they knew that it was their own who was leading "outsiders"? The story of Sacajawea is interesting because it crosses cultural boundaries. What else will you learn from this book?
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Now, for the first time, here is the full story of Daniel Paul's personal journey of transformation, a story that will inspire Canadians to recognize and respect their First Nations as equal and enlightened civilizations. Born in a log cabin during a raging blizzard on Indian Brook Reserve in 1938, Mi'kmaw elder Daniel N. Paul rose to the top of a Canadian society that denied his people's civilization. When he was named to the Order of Canada, his...
19) "Haff" Breed
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"Haff"-Breed” is a memoir about the trials and tribulations of a mixed-race boy, now man, who grew up on a Indian reservation, traversing through the struggles of family dysfunction and the desire to leave his roots behind but later in life trying to reclaim what it means to be a Jicarilla Apache member and soon find out what it means to be made to feel like you are not.
Follow along as Leon shares his journey, a snapshot of youth and an in-depth...
20) Ohitika Woman
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The beloved sequel to the now-classic Lakota Woman, Ohitika Woman follows Mary Brave Bird as she continues her powerful, dramatic tale of ancient glory and present anguish, of courage and despair, of magic and mystery, and, above all, of the survival of both body and mind. Coming home from Wounded Knee in 1973, married to American Indian movement leader Leonard Crow Dog, Mary was a mother with the hope of a better life. But, as she says, "Trouble...
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