Cuentos Juveniles sobre los Nativo-Americanos
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Libros con Ilustraciones
- Doesn’t Fall Off His Horse
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An old Kiowa warrior tells his great-granddaughter a story of daring from his youth on the Oklahoma plains.
(jPS STRO) Ages 5-9 - Dreamcatcher
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A quiet story about how the Ojibwa people weave dream catchers to keep away bad dreams.
(jPS OSOF) Ages 6-10 - Jingle Dancer
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A Muscogee girl is determined to dance like her grandmother at the next powwow.
(jPS SMIT) Ages 4-8 - Morning on the Lake
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An Anishinabe boy learns respect for the ways of nature during a day spent with his grandfather.
(jPS WABO) Ages 4-9- Muskrat Will Be Swimming
Grandpa uses a Seneca creation story to help a contemporary Native American girl overcome her classmates’ taunting.
(jPS SAVA) Ages 6-10- The Range Eternal
A young mother fondly remembers the old woodstove that warmed her family in South Dakota where she grew up.
(jPS ERDR) Ages 5-8- Red Bird
A city girl dances at the Nanticoke Indian powwow held annually at a farm in Delaware.
(jPS MITC) Ages 5-9- The Seasons and Someone
A poetic account of a year in the life of a young Eskimo (Inuit) girl and her love of summer berries.
(jPS KROL) Ages 5-9- The Star People: A Lakota Story
Sister Girl and her younger brother are lost after a prairie fire, but led back home by the spirit of their deceased grandmother.
(jPS NELS) Ages 6-9- Gift Horse: A Lakota Story
- What’s the Most Beautiful Thing You Know About Horses?
A Dogrib boy wonders about an animal he has never seen in his Northwest Territories Canadian home.
(jPS VANC) Ages 5-10- A Man Called Raven
- Where Did You Get Your Moccasins?
At school, an urban boy explains how his grandmother hand made his beaded moccasins following traditional methods.
(jPS WHEE) Ages 3-7Leyendas y Folklore
- Baby Rattlesnake
An elder tells the tale of how a little rattlesnake learns to use its rattle wisely.
(j398.2452 ATA) Ages 3-7- Coyote Fights the Sun: A Shasta Indian Tale
A distraught father blames the sun for his own mistake in thinking that spring had arrived.
(j398.2089 CARP) Ages 5-8- Fire Race: A Karuk Coyote Tale
Coyote steals fire from the Yellow Jacket sisters in this action-packed legend from the northwest of California.
(j398.2 LOND) Ages 4-9- The Girl Who Married the Moon: Tales from Native North America
A collection of 16 lesser known tales that give fresh focus to girls and young women in traditional cultures.
(j398.2089 BRUC) Ages 9-13- Between Earth and Sky: Legends of Native American Sacred Places; The Story of the Milky Way
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- The People With Five Fingers: A Native Californian Creation Tale
Helped by all the other animals, Coyote plants the seeds that become the many peoples of the land.
(j398.2089 BIER) Ages 6-10- The Deetkatoo: Native American Stories About Little People; Doctor Coyote: A Native American Aesop’s Fables; and other titles.
- Storm Maker’s Tipi
A Great Plains survival story that explains the origin of the Blackfoot tipi. Included are directions for making a model.
(j398.2089 GOBL) Ages 6-11- Two Bear Cubs: A Miwok Legend from California’s Yosemite Valley
The lowly Measuring Worm rescues two bear cubs from a Yosemite mountain top.
(j398.2097 SANS) Ages 5-9Ficción
- Alice Yazzie’s Year
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A poetic month by month account of the events and feelings of an 11-year-old Navajo girl who lives on a reservation.
(jF MAHE) Ages 8-10 - Bears Make Rock Soup And Other Stories
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Fourteen short stories inspired by the paintings show Native Americans and animals living in harmony and helping each other.
(jF ERDR) Ages 7-10 - The Birchbark House
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The tender story of a seven-year-old Ojibwa girl, the sole survivor of a smallpox epidemic in 1847, on an island in Lake Superior.
(jF ERDR) Ages 9+ - Sequel: The Game of Silence
- Crazy Horse’s Vision
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A story from the childhood of Crazy Horse, a visionary and a warrior.
(jF BRUC) Ages 8-12 - Also: The Heart of a Chief; The Journal of Jesse Smoke; Skeleton Man; and other titles.
- The Good Rainbow Road
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Two brothers undertake a perilous journey to save their village from drought. Told in Keres and English with a Spanish translation.
(jF ORTI) Ages 8+ - Home to Medicine Mountain
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Two brothers hop trains to travel hundreds of miles across California on their own, leaving their boarding school to spend the summer at home.
(jF SANT) Ages 8-10 - Island of the Blue Dolphins
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Based on historical fact, this classic novel tells how an Indian girl of the Ghalas-at community survives for 18 years alone on an island off the Southern California coast.
(jF ODEL) Ages 10+ - Sequel: Zia
- Minuk: Ashes in the Pathway
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In 1890, a girl encounters American missionaries who question her Yup’ik way of life. In the Girls of Many Lands series.
(jF HILL) Ages 10-13 - Morning Girl
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The story of a Taino brother and sister living on a Bahamian island right before the arrival of Columbus.
(jF DORR) Ages 10+ - Also: Guests; Sees Behind Trees; The Window
- Rain Is Not My Indian Name
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A teenager of mixed heritage becomes a photographer and explores her own Native American roots.
(jF SMIT) Ages 10+ - Also: Indian Shoes.
- The Talking Earth
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A Seminole girl ventures into the Everglades alone to explore her people’s legends and beliefs.
(jF GEOR) Ages 10-13 - Also: Julie of the Wolves and its sequels.
- Truth is a Bright Star: A Hopi Adventure
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A Hopi boy is sold to a fur trapper by Spanish soldiers in 1832, and a friendship grows between the two with time and travel.
(jF PRIC) Ages 10-12
Poesía y Canciones
- Dancing Teepees: Poems of American Indian Youth
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Poems from the oral tradition selected from throughout North America.
(j897 DANC) Ages 9+
Also:
- First Americans series.
- Navajo: Visions and Voices Across the Mesa
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Poems, short prose pieces, and beautiful paintings about his people by a noted author and artist.
(j811.54 BEGA) Ages 9+ - Rising Voices: Writings of Young Native Americans
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More than 60 inspiring poems and essays from across the North American continent.
(j810.8 RISI) Ages 11+ - Thirteen Moons on Turtle’s Back: A Native American Year of Moons
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Seasons of the year are described through poems and legends of many tribes.
(j897 BRUC) Ages 9+
(See also: j811.54 BRUC).
Also:
Pushing up the Sky: Seven Native American Plays for Children. - Touching the Distance: Native American Riddle Poems
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A thought-provoking collection of riddles with answers provided in the illustrations.
(j811.54 SWAN) Ages 7-10
Libros Informativos
- 1621: A New Look at Thanksgiving
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The first Thanksgiving through a Native American lens, as reenacted at Plimoth Plantation.
(j394.2649 GRAC) Ages 8-11 - Atlas of the North American Indian
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A useful resource with maps, illustrations, multiple appendices, and a detailed index.
(j970.0049 WALD 2000) Ages 10+
See also: adult call number 790.0049 W146a. Reference in many libraries.
- California Native American Tribes
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An extensive resource of 27 volumes, each providing in-depth information on a different California tribe.
(j979.4004 BOUL) Ages 9+ - Children of Native America Today
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Young people from 25 different tribes are photographed in everyday pursuits from grooming an Appaloosa horse (Nez Perce) to playing stickball (Choctaw).
(j306.0899 DENN) Ages 8-12 - Clambake: A Wampanoag Tradition
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Peters writes of a time-honored tribal custom. In the We Are Still Here series.
(j970.3 PETE) Ages 9+ - North American Indian
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A visual introduction revised to include a glossary, places to visit, websites and so on. In the Eyewitness Books series.
(j970.0049 MURD) Ages 8-12 - The People Shall Continue
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A sobering pictorial history of genocide and survival.
(j970.1 ORTI 1988) Ages 9+ - Pueblo Storyteller
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Colorful photographs of Cochiti Pueblo in New Mexico and the making of storyteller figures, pottery, and drums.
(j970.3 HOYT) Ages 8+Also: Apache Rodeo; Buffalo Days; Cherokee Summer; Lacrosse; Potlatch; Totem Pole - Traditional Native American Arts and Activities
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Do-able projects from across North America, including how to make Lenape grape dumplings and Tlingit button blankets.
(j745.0879 BRAM) Ages 9+ - We Rode the Wind: Recollections of Native American Life
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An overview of Plains Indian life from the biographical writings of major 19th century tribal figures.
(j978.0049 WE 1995) Ages 10+ - Weaving a California Tradition: A Native American Basketmaker
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A Western Mono girl learns a traditional craft from her elders in this colorful photo essay. In the We Are Still Here series.
(j746.412 YAMA) Ages 9+
Also:
- The Snake That Lived in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
Biografía
- As Long As the Rivers Flow
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Brief biographies of nine Native Americans from Weetamoo (Pocasset) to Michael Maranjo (Santa Clara Pueblo).
(j970.0049 ALLE) Ages 9+ - Extraordinary American Indians
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Biographical sketches of individual Native Americans covering the last 200 years.
(j970.2 AVER) Ages 9+ - The Life and Death of Crazy Horse
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A biography of the great 19th century Teton Lakota warrior and leader.
(jB CRAZ) Ages 10+Also: Indian Chiefs; An Indian Winter - Native American Doctor: The Story of Susan LaFlesche Picotte
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The story of an Omaha girl who grew up to study medicine and serve her people.
(jB PICO) Ages 9+ - Rattlesnake Mesa: Stories From a Native American Childhood
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An elder tells of her childhood years on the Crown Point Navajo Reservation and the realities of life at the Phoenix Indian (boarding) School.
(jB WEBE) Ages 10+ - Sacagawea
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The life of the young Shoshone woman who served as a guide and interpreter to the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806.
(jB SACA) Ages 7-11 - Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing
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Written in both English and Cherokee, this biography tells about the remarkable man who crafted the Cherokee alphabet.
(jB SEQU) Ages 5-9 - Wilma Mankiller
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The life of the first woman chief of the Cherokee Nation, also an active spokesperson for Native Americans.
(jB MANK) Ages 7-10
