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Native American Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories
Native American Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories is the work of two researchers, Rita J. Simon and Rachel Hernandez, who sought to present the...
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The Porcupine Year
In this riveting continuation of the story of Omakayas, “little frog”, Louise Erdrich weaves a readable, yet very complex story about a girl’s spiritual...
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Me Sexy: An Exploration of Native Sex and Sexuality
Is Cree really the sexiest of all languages? Does Inuit sex have a dark side? These are some of the questions answered in this...
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People of the Whale
A young man and young woman from a fictional coastal tribe fall in love, conceive a child and are separated only to meet again...
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A Native American of It: Amazing Inventions and Innovations
Everyone knows canoes and toboggans invented by the Native North America, but they also created sign language, syringe needles ingredient in soda pop? Other...
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Fritz Scholder: Indian/Not Indian
In the 1960s and 70s, the notion of American Indian art was turned on its head by artists who fought against prejudice and popular...
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Inkpaduta: Dakota Leader
Leader of the Santee Sioux, Inkapduta (1815-1879) partcipated in some of the most decisive battles of the northern Great Plains, including Custer's defeat at...
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Taku Wadaka He? (What Do You See?)
Simple, beautiful, artful, intricate, this book’s Dakota text and delightful premise will make it the book child reaches for at bedtime. I always try...
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If You Knew The Conditions: : A Chronicle of the Indian...
If You Knew the Conditions examines the inadequacies of the healthcare provided to American Indians by the Indian Medical Service. DeJong argues that, while...
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Native Americans and the Christian Right: The Gendered Politics of Unlikely...
In Native Americans and the Christian Right: The Gendered Politics of Unlikely Alliances, Andrea Smith continues the work of theorizing Native American womens’ activism...
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Reflections on American Indian History: Honoring the Past, Building a Future
Edited by Albert L. Hurtado and introduced by Wilma Mankiller, this book includes the insights of Colin G. Calloway, R. David Edmunds, Laurence M....
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Reckonings: Contemporary Short Fiction by Native American Women
Fifteen Native women writers document transgenerational trauma and but celebrate survival.This volume offers a sampling of two to three stories by both famous and...
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Shedding Skins: Four Sioux Poets
The four young male Native American poets in this collection write poems about urban decay and homelessness, about loneliness and despair, about Payday Loans...
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Buffalo Song
Based on actual events, this story tells of the successful efforts of Walking Cayote and other Natives to help stop the endangerment of the...
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The Recklessness of Love: Bawajiganan Gaye Ni Maanedam (Dreams and Regrets)
Poet Al Hunter gives us a hundred voices with one spirit. In his poems he’s a lonely heart, a frozen Northerner, a dirty-talking dreamer,...
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Louis Riel, A Comic Strip Biography
Although this Canadian graphic novel has been in print for several years, it is now more easily available through a US distributor and so...
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Garriott Named Obama's First Americans' Public Liaison
Wizipan Garriott, 28, has been appointed First Americans Public Liaison, a newly created position in resident-elect Barack Obama's ransition team. The position is aimed...
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CNN's Campbell Brown calls ICWA 'a ridiculous law"
CNN's Campbell Brown, commentator for the program "No Bias, No Bull", angered many in Indian Country when on Dec. 16 she commented on an...
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National Monuments
Michigan State University Press November 2008, 96 pgs Heid Erdrich’s latest book of poetry “National Monuments” focuses her keen wit and piercing insights to...
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Book sheds light on North Shore legend John Beargrease
Many people know the quick version of the John Beargrease story: The son of an Ojibwe chief who grew up on the rugged North...
