Native Americans in Children's Literature

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Book cover for "The birchbark house"
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Series:
Birchbark house volume 1.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe, lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847.
Book cover for "Chickadee"
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Series:
Birchbark house volume 4.
Description:
In 1866, Omakayas's son Chickadee is kidnapped by two ne'er-do-well brothers from his own tribe and must make a daring escape, forge unlikely friendships, and set out on an exciting and dangerous journey to get back home.
Book cover for "The game of silence"
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Series:
Birchbark house volume 2.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Nine-year-old Omakayas, of the Ojibwa tribe, moves west with her family in 1849.
Book cover for "Makoons"
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Series:
Birchbark house volume 5.
Description:
Living with their Ojibwe family on the Great Plains of Dakota Territory in 1866, twin brothers Makoons and Chickadee must learn to become buffalo hunters, but Makoons has a vision that foretells great challenges that his family may not be able to overcome.
Book cover for "The porcupine year"
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Series:
Birchbark house volume 3.
Description:
In 1852, forced by the United States government to leave their beloved Island of the Golden Breasted Woodpecker, fourteen-year-old Omokayas and her Ojibwe family travel in search of a new home.
Book cover for "The round house"
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Average Rating:
3.6 stars
Description:
When his mother, a tribal enrollment specialist living on a reservation in North Dakota, slips into an abyss of depression after being brutally attacked, 14-year-old Joe Coutz sets out with his three friends to find the person that destroyed his family.