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Twelve Native American kids present historical and contemporary laws, policies, struggles, and victories in Native life, each with a powerful refrain: We are still here!
Too often, Native American history is treated as a finished chapter instead of relevant and ongoing. This companion book to the award-winning We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga offers readers everything they never learned in school about Native American people's past, present, and future....
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Bibliotherapy: Social Justice
Indigenous Arts and Culture September Display
Indigenous History: Adults
Indigenous Arts and Culture September Display
Indigenous History: Adults
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An illustrated edition of the Canadian classic, which is a critical and personal meditation on what it means to be a Native American in North America.
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"A dazzling new novel about memory and identity set in Paris, Tennessee in the aftermath of the American civil war from the Booker Prize shortlisted author Winona Cole, an orphaned child of the Lakota Indians, finds herself growing up in an unconventional household on a farm in West Tennessee. Raised by her adoptive father John Cole and his brother-in-arms Thomas McNulty, this odd little family scrapes a living on Lige Magan's farm with the help two...
8) Wawahte
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Indian Residential School Survivors Society British Columbia, Canada. For all the people who read this book may they be forever enlightened. By shining the light on a dark part of our past we have a chance to create a bright new day for aboriginals and all Canadians. We will all know what happened and then come to realize that what happens now and our vision for a future together is what really counts. Together we will stand for what is right and...
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Indigenous peoples have played an influential role in Canadian history and continue to do so today. From the past and into the future, Indigenous Life in Canada reveals the challenges Indigenous peoples face, celebrates their diverse cultures, and highlights the contributions they make in Canada.
10) Paying the land
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Joe Sacco travels the frozen North to reveal a people in conflict over the costs and benefits of development. The mining boom is only the latest assault on indigenous culture: Sacco recounts the shattering impact of a residential school system that aimed to "remove the Indian from the child"; the destructive process that drove the Dene from the bush into settlements and turned them into wage laborers; the government land claims stacked against the...
12) Trail of Tears
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Documents the forced removal in 1838 of the Cherokee Nation from the southeastern United States to Oklahoma; explores issues of racial identity between the mixed-descent peoples of both Native American and African American heritage; examines the crossover of ancient native remedies to present-day medical practices; documents the 1869, U.S. government-enacted policy of educating Native American children in the ways of western society.
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