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The Last of the Mohicans is the second and most popular of James Fenimore Cooper's five Leatherstocking Tales. Set in 1757 during the fierce French and Indian wars, Cooper's classic novel of adventure follows an adroit scout and his companion as they weave through the lush and spectacular wilderness of upstate New York, fighting to save the beautiful daughters of a fort commander from a treacherous Huron renegade. With its death-defying chases and...
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When brothers Max and Jay help a classmate in trouble, they struggle with the consequences of their violent actions and worry they may be more like their abusive father than they thought, so the brothers turn to their Bribri roots to find their way forward.
3) Wife of moon
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Arapaho attorney Vicki Holden and Father John O'Malley must find the link between the murder of a woman—and the murder of her ancestor from a century earlier.
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As World War II begins, eighteen-year-old Leo is going to ship out with the Marines, but not before traveling home to see his little sister, Billie, bringing with him a Navajo friend from basic training named Denny. Along the way home, Denny finds a wounded stray dog and brings him to Billie's house where he ends up staying. The dog, Bear, helps Billie through the loneliness as she corresponds with both Leo and Denny throughout the war. With the help...
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Ziggy's mother disappeared ten years ago, one of the many Native women who have mysteriously gone missing, and Ziggy believes a secret cave may hold the key--so with his sister, Moon, and friends Alice and Corso, he sets out to find the cave and solve the mystery of his family's origins.
9) Saturnalia
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In 1681 in Boston, 14-year-old William, a Narraganset Indian captured in a raid six years earlier, leads a productive & contented life as a printer's apprentice but is increasingly anxious to make some connection with his Indian past.
10) The lost bird
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A priest is murdered on an Indian reservation, after witnessing a rash of infant deaths during a doctor's tenure. Or was it an adoption racket? Father O'Malley and Indian lawyer Vicky Holden investigate.
11) Eagle song
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After moving from a Mohawk reservation to Brooklyn, New York, eight-year-old Danny Bigtree encounters stereotypes about his Native American heritage.
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After leaving India with her mother and leaving her estranged father behind, decades later, Mehar surprises herself by returning to her homeland to attend her father's wedding to the popular socialite, Naz. Since her father is actually Indian royalty, the wedding will be at his palace family home, making it a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, even if it will be awkward. Mehar still hopes to repair their relationship, but when she begins falling in love...
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"When the Arapaho tribal chairman is found murdered in his tepee at the Ethete powwow, the evidence points to the chairman's nephew, Anthony Castle. But Father John O'Malley, pastor of St. Francis Mission, and Vicky Holden, the Arapaho lawyer, do not believe the young man capable of murder. Together they set out to find the real murderer and clear Anthony's name. The trail that Father John and Vicky follow winds across the high plains of the Wind...
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Celebrating Myself!: Books for Kids
Diverse books - Native Americans, American Indians, First Nations, and Indigenous Peoples Around the World
Diverse books - Native Americans, American Indians, First Nations, and Indigenous Peoples Around the World
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"What does it mean to be Mi'kmaq? And if Swift Fox can't find the answer, will she ever feel like part of her family? When Swift Fox's father picks her up to go visit her aunties, uncles, and cousins, her belly is already full of butterflies. And when he tells her that today is the day that she'll learn how to be Mi'kmaq, the butterflies grow even bigger. Though her father reassures her that Mi'kmaq is who she is from her eyes to her toes, Swift Fox...
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On the Hill of Dust, in the remote mountains of Mexico, an eleven-year-old Mixtec boy called Teo lives with his family and the animals that he has healed, but one day a Romany caravan rolls into town with a young girl who calls herself Esma, the Gypsy Queen of Lightning--it is the beginning of a life-long friendship that will change both their lives.