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Knots on a counting rope
In Knots on a Counting Rope, Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault tell a poignant story about a boy’s emerging confidence in facing his blindness in this beautiful children’s picture book illustrated by Ted Rand. By the warmth of a campfire beneath a starry night sky, a Navajo youth named Boy-Strength-of-Blue-Horses listens to the tale of his birth from his grandfather. Although blind, …
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- 9780805084798
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- 32 pages : illustration ; 20 cm
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- M
Home to medicine mountain
In the 1930s two young brothers are sent to a government-run Indian residential school -- an experience shared by generations of Native American children. At these schools, children are forbidden to speak their native tongue and are taught to abandon their Indian ways. Native American artist Judith Lowry's illustrations are inspired by the stories she heard from her father and uncle. The lyr…
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- 9780892391769
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- 30 pages : illustration ; 21 cm
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The rough-face girl
This moving adaptation of the classic children's story Cinderella tells how a disfigured Algonquin girl wins the heart of a mysterious being who lives by the lake near her village. The powerful Invisible Being is looking for a wife, and all the girls in the village vie for his affections. But only the girl who proves she can see him will be his bride. The two beautiful but spoiled daughters …
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- 0590469320
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- 32 pages : illustration ; 27 cm
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- F06
1621 : a new look at Thanksgiving
Countering the prevailing, traditional story of the first Thanksgiving, with its black-hatted, silver-buckled Pilgrims; blanket-clad, be-feathered Indians; cranberry sauce; pumpkin pie; and turkey, this lushly illustrated photo-essay presents a more measured, balanced, and historically accurate version of the three-day harvest celebration in 1621.
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- 0439462762
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- 47 pages : illustration ; 27 cm
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- 394.2 GRA
The first Thanksgiving
Learn about the Pilgrim's arrival in the new world, their harsh first winter, and their relationship with Samoset, Squanto, and other Native Americans. The book culminates in the great harvest feast shared between the English and the Natives, which has now come to be known as the first Thanksgiving.
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- 9780439206280
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- 40 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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- Scholastic Reader Level 3
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- 394.2 JAC
Selu and Kana'ti : Cherokee Corn Mother and Lucky Hunter
The children of the Corn Mother and the Lucky Hunter discover the source of the food provided by their parents, precipitating the death of the parents and a new way of life for the children.
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- 9781413124248
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- 31 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
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- 398 RED
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