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Author
Series
Walt Longmire mystery volume 18
Language
English
Description
"What if you woke up lying in the middle of the street in the infamous town of Fort Pratt, Montana, where thirty, young Native boys perished in a tragic 1896 boarding school fire? What if every person you encountered in that endless night was dead? What if you were covered in blood and missing a bullet from the gun holstered on your hip? What if there was something out there in the yellowed skies--along with the deceased and the smell of ash and dust--something...
2) Stealing
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Since her mother's death, Kit Crockett has lived alone with her grief-stricken father, spending lonely days far out in the country tending the garden, fishing in a local stream, and reading Nancy Drew mysteries from the library bookmobile. One day when Kit discovers a mysterious and beautiful woman has moved in just down the road, she is intrigued. Kit and her new neighbor Bella become fast friends. Both outsiders, they take comfort in each other's...
Author
Series
There there volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Industrial School for Indians, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star's son, Charles, is sent to the school, where...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A Council of Dolls is the moving and unforgettable new novel from PEN Award-winning Sioux author Mona Susan Powers, spanning four generations of Yanktonai Dakota women from the 19th century to the present day"--
"From the mid-century metropolis of Chicago to the windswept ancestral lands of the Dakota people, to the bleak and brutal Indian boarding schools, A Council of Dolls is the story of three women, told in part through the stories of the dolls...
Author
Publisher
HighWater Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
"When a young girl helps tend to her grandmother's garden, she begins to notice things that make her curious. Why does her grandmother have long, braided hair and beautifully colored clothing? Why does she speak another language and spend so much time with her family? As she asks her grandmother about these things, she is told about life in a residential school a long time ago, where all of these things were taken away. When We Were Alone is a story...
7) Shi-shi-etko
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 860L
Language
English
Description
Shi-shi-etko, a Native American girl, spends the last four days before she goes to residential school learning valuable lessons from her mother, father, and grandmother, and creating precious memories of home.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Language
English
Description
Philadelphia, 1906. A federal agent is dead, and the murder suspect is Alma Mitchell's childhood friend, Harry Muskrat. Harry-- then called Asku-- was the most promising student at Stover School in Wisconsin, the 'savage-taming' boarding school run by her father, where Alma was the only white pupil. Intended to assimilate the children of neighboring reservations, the school robbed them of language, customs, even their names. Asku has become, cold...
Author
Publisher
Second Story Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Removed from her family to live in a residential school when she was eight years old, Irene Couchie Dupuis, an Anishinabe girl, was confused, frightened, and homesick, but did her best to remember who she is and where she came from despite the efforts of the nuns to force her to do otherwise. Based on a true story about the author's grandmother.
Author
Publisher
Salina Bookshelf, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
At a very strict school in Indigenous Nation, everyone but Holden stays in line until they reach the door at the end of the school day.
"Fall in Line, Holden! follows Holden, a young Navajo boy, through his day at boarding school. Although Holden is required to conform to a rigid schedule and strict standards of behavior, his internal life is led with imagination and wonder. Whether he is in art class, the computer lab, or walking the hall to lunch,...
Author
Publisher
Second Story Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A Cree translation of Stolen Words. The book is in both Cree and English. Stolen Words is a picture book about a little girl who sets out to help her grandfather discover the Cree language that was stolen from him when he was sent away to residential school as a boy."--
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