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This magnificent novel by one of America’s finest writers is the epic of one man’s remarkable journey, set in nineteenth-century America against the background of a vanishing people and a rich way of life.
At the age of twelve, under the Wind moon, Will is given a horse, a key, and a map, and sent alone into the Indian Nation to run a trading post as a bound boy. It is during this time that he grows into a man, learning, as...
At the age of twelve, under the Wind moon, Will is given a horse, a key, and a map, and sent alone into the Indian Nation to run a trading post as a bound boy. It is during this time that he grows into a man, learning, as...
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"Nineteen-year-old Cowney Sequoyah yearns to escape his hometown of Cherokee, North Carolina, in the heart of the Smoky Mountains. When a summer job at Asheville's luxurious Grove Park Inn and Resort brings him one step closer to escaping the hills that both cradle and suffocate him, he sees it as an opportunity. With World War II raging in Europe, the inn is the temporary home of Axis diplomats and their families, who are being held as prisoners...
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2019.
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"It's early spring of 1875 in the Cherokee Nation West. A baby, a black hired hand, a bay horse, a gun, a gold stash, and a preacher have all gone missing. Mrs. Cherokee America Singer, known as 'Check'--a wealthy farmer, mother of five boys, and soon-to-be widow--is not amused. The tension mounts and the violence escalates as Check's mixed-race family, friends, and neighbors come together to protect their community, and painfully expel one of...
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Children's Books for Native American Heritage Month
Indigenous People's Day: Junior Fiction
Indigenous People's Day: Picture Books
Indigenous People's Day: Junior Fiction
Indigenous People's Day: Picture Books
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Otsaliheliga is a Cherokee word that is used to express gratitude. Journey through the year with a Cherokee family and their tribal nation as they express thanks for celebrations big and small. This book presents a look at modern Native American life as told by a citizen of the Cherokee Nation.
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Place to call home (Al Lacy) volume 3
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Multnomah Publishers
Pub. Date
2007
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English
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American dreams (Michael Phillips) volume 2
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English
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The author of Dream of Freedom returns to the South, where one family risks everything to help runaway slaves, as the drums of Civil War begin to sound. With their beloved plantation, Greenwood, now a vital link in the Underground Railroad, Richmond and Carolyn Davidson must balance the need for safety with their commitment to helping the many runaways who appear at their door. Compounding their danger, the Davidson's neighbors, the Beaumonts, do...
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"A spare, lyrical Native American coming of age story set in rural Oklahoma in the late 1980s. With his single mother in jail, Sequoyah, a fifteen-year-old Cherokee boy, is placed in foster care with the Troutt family. Literally and figuratively scarred by his unstable upbringing, Sequoyah has spent years mostly keeping to himself, living with his emotions pressed deep below the surface--that is, until he meets the seventeen-year-old Rosemary, another...
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Not a Pipe Publishing
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©2021
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English
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This collection of Jessica Mehta's powerful, beautiful, vulnerable work spans "from dates so long ago I can't even recall" to her most current poetry in the midst of a pandemic. Her poems call our attention to the unsung disappearance of Indigenous women, the cultural genocide that still continues, the eating disorders that consume us from within, and to love. family, and the courageous choice to see the world from a different angle in the face of...
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Reycraft Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Chooch is reluctant to become a storyteller like the rest of his family and he is reluctant to spend spring break in the small town of Greasy Oklahoma with Uncle Dynamite. Choock finds out there is more than one way to tell a story.
17) Cherokee
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Gareth Stevens Pub
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2004
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English
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Examines the history, art, language, culture, and future prospects of the Cherokee Indians, as well as distinguished members of the tribe.
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English
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A renowned journalist and cohost of NPR's Morning Edition presents a thrilling narrative history of President Andrew Jackson and Cherokee Chief John Ross--two heroic yet tragically opposed men whose actions decided the fate of states and Indian nations in America at a moment of transition.
Five decades after the Revolutionary War, the United States approached a constitutional crisis. At its center stood two former military comrades locked in a struggle...
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