Native Americans in Children's Literature

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Book cover for "The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian"
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4.5 stars
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Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
Book cover for "The birchbark house"
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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 "Buffalo before breakfast"
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4 stars
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The magic tree house takes Jack and his sister Annie to the Great Plains where they learn about the life of the Lakota Indians.
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In the late 1880's, a Cheyenne boy named Young Bull is taken to a boarding school to learn the white man's ways.
Book cover for "Chickadee"
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Series:
Birchbark house volume 4.
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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 "Code talker"
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5 stars
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After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become code talkers, sending messages in their native tongue during World War II.
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Series:
Feral series volume 2.
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Kayla, the adopted daughter of human parents, is determined to learn about her werecat heritage and solve the mystery of an antique carousel.
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Series:
Feral series volume 1.
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Tracking his sister to Austin only to discover that she is a key suspect in a murder case, werecat Yoshi embarks on a search for answers, while werepossum Clyde and Aimee pursue their own investigation in an effort to avenge the killing.
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Feral series volume 3.
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After a video of Kayla goes viral and a weresnake kidnaps a politician, Kayla, Yoshi, Clyde, and Aimee are declared fugitives and the were-community are targeted and threatened with a vaccine designed to suppress the ability to shift. The explosive finale to the Feral series by New York Times best-selling author Cynthia Leitich Smith. Anti-shifter sentiment is at an all-time high when Kayla's transformation to werecat is captured on video and uploaded...
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 "Ghost Hawk"
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3 stars
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At the end of a winter-long journey into manhood, Little Hawk returns to find his village decimated by a white man's plague and soon, despite a fresh start, Little Hawk dies violently but his spirit remains trapped, seeing how his world changes.
Book cover for "The girl who loved wild horses"
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2 stars
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Though she is fond of her people, a girl prefers to live among the wild horses where she is truly happy and free.
Book cover for "Hiawatha and the Peacemaker"
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4.5 stars
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Hiawatha, a Mohawk, is plotting revenge for the murder of his wife and daughters by the evil Onondaga Chief, Tadodaho, when he meets the Great Peacemaker, who enlists his help in bringing the nations together to share his vision of a new way of life marked by peace, love, and unity rather than war, hate, and fear. Includes historical notes.
Book cover for "The impossible knife of memory"
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4 stars
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"Hayley Kincaid and her father move back to their hometown to try a "normal" life, but the horrors he saw in the war threaten to destroy their lives"--
Book cover for "In the footsteps of Crazy Horse"
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Teased for his fair coloring, eleven-year-old Jimmy McClean travels with his maternal grandfather, Nyles High Eagle, to learn about his Lakota heritage while visiting places significant in the life of Crazy Horse, the nineteenth-century Lakota leader and warrior, in a tale that weaves the past with the present. Includes historical note and glossary.
Book cover for "Island of the Blue Dolphins"
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4.1 stars
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Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life.
Book cover for "Jingle dancer"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
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Jenna, a member of the Muscogee, or Creek, Nation, borrows jingles from the dresses of several friends and relatives so that she can perform the jingle dance at the powwow. Includes a note about the jingle dance tradition and its regalia.

18. Julie

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4.5 stars
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When Julie returns to her father's Eskimo village, she struggles to find a way to save her beloved wolves in a changing Arctic world and she falls in love with a young Siberian man.
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5 stars
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"In a world that has barely survived an apocalypse that leaves it with pre-twentieth century technology, Lozen is a monster hunter for four tyrants who are holding her family hostage"--

20. 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.