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Best Picture Book Award Winner
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Bowwow Powwow
Brenda J Child - Minnesota Historical Society Press
Format: Hardcover
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Windy Girl is blessed with a vivid imagination. From Uncle she gathers stories of long-ago traditions, about dances and sharing and gratitude. Windy can tell such stories herself-about her dog, Itchy Boy, and the way he dances to request a treat and how he wriggles with joy in response... |
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Picture Book Honor Books
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Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story
Kevin Noble Maillard - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Hardcover
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Told in lively and powerful verse by debut author Kevin Noble Maillard, Fry Bread is an evocative depiction of a modern Native American family, vibrantly illustrated by Pura Belpre Award winner and Caldecott Honoree Juana Martinez-Neal.Fry bread is food.It is warm and delicious,... |
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Birdsong
Julie Flett - Greystone Kids
Format: Hardcover
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A tender, luminous portrait of art, nature, and connecting across generations. When a young girl moves from the country to a small town, she feels lonely and out of place. But soon she meets an elderly woman next door, who shares her love of arts and crafts. Can the girl navigate the changing... |
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At the Mountain's Base
Traci Sorell - Kokila
Format: Hardcover
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A family, separated by duty and distance, waits for a loved one to return home in this lyrical picture book celebrating the bonds of a Cherokee family and the bravery of history-making women pilots.At the mountain's base sits a cabin under an old hickory tree. And in that cabin lives a family... |
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We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga
TRACI SORELL - Charlesbridge
Format: Hardcover
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The Cherokee community is grateful for blessings and challenges that each season brings. This is modern Native American life as told by an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation.The word otsaliheliga (oh-jah-LEE-hay-lee-gah) is used by members of the Cherokee Nation to express... |
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Best Middle Grade Book Award Winner
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Indian No More
Charlene Willing McManis - Tu Books
Format: Hardcover
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Regina Petit's family has always been Umpqua, and living on the Grand Ronde reservation is all ten-year-old Regina has ever known. Her biggest worry is that Sasquatch may actually exist out in the forest. But when the federal government signs a bill into law that says Regina's tribe no longer... |
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Middle Grade Honor Books
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I Can Make This Promise
Christine Day - HarperCollins
Format: Hardcover
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In her debut middle grade novel - inspired by her family's history - Christine Day tells the story of a girl who uncovers her family's secrets - and finds her own Native American identity. All her life, Edie has known that her mom was adopted by a white couple. So, no matter how curious... |
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The Grizzly Mother
Gyetxw Hetxw'ms (Brett D. Huson) - HighWater Press
Format: Hardcover
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To the Gitxsan people of Northwestern British Columbia, the grizzly is an integral part of the natural landscape. Together, they share the land and forests that the Skeena River runs through, as well as the sockeye salmon within it. Follow mother bear as she teaches her cubs what they need... |
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Best Young Adult Book Award Winner
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Hearts Unbroken
CYNTHIA LEITICH SMITH - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover
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New York Times best-selling author Cynthia Leitich Smith turns to realistic fiction with the thoughtful story of a Native teen navigating the complicated, confusing waters of high school - and first love.When Louise Wolfe's first real boyfriend mocks and disrespects Native people... |
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Young Adult Honor Book
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Surviving the City
Tasha Spillett - Highwater Press
Format: Paperback
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Tasha Spillet's graphic-novel debut tells a story of kinship, resilience, cultural resurgence, and the anguish of a missing loved one. Miikwan and Dez are best friends. Miikwan is Anishinaabe; Dez is Inninew. Together, the teens navigate the challenges of growing up Indigenous in an urban... |
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Reawakening Our Ancestors' Lines: Revitalizing Inuit Traditional Tattooing
Angela Hovak Johnston - Inhabit Media
Format: Hardcover
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For thousands of years, Inuit women practiced the traditional art of tattooing. Created with bone needles and caribou sinew soaked in seal oil or soot, these tattoos were an important tradition for many women, symbols stitched in their skin that connected them to their families and communities.... |
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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - Beacon Press
Format: Paperback
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Spanning more than 400 years, this classic bottom-up history examines the legacy of Indigenous peoples' resistance, resilience, and steadfast fight against imperialism.Going beyond the story of America as a country "discovered" by a few brave men in the "New World,"... |
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Apple in the Middle
Dawn Quigley - North Dakota State University Press
Format: Hardcover
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Apple Starkington turned her back on her Native American heritage the moment she was called a racial slur for someone of white and Indian descent, not that she really even knew how to be an Indian in the first place. Too bad the white world doesn t accept her either. And so begins her quirky... |
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