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A Braid of Lives : Native American Childhood
Weaves the testimony of many Native Americans into a single narrative of childhood and growing up.
81 p. 2000
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Bouchard, Dave
The Drum Calls Softly
Share the passion and beauty of Native culture through words, paintings, song and dance.
[32] p. 2008
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Bruchac, Joseph
Skeleton Man
After her parents disappear and she is turned over to the care of a strange great-uncle, Molly must rely on her dreams about an old Mohawk story for her safety and maybe even for her life.
114 p. 2003
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Bruchac, Joseph
The Dark Pond
After he feels a mysterious pull drawing him toward a dark, shadowy pond in the woods, Armie looks to old Native American tales for guidance about the dangerous monster lurking in the water.
142 p. 2004
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Bruchac, Joseph
Wabi : a Hero's Tale
After falling in love with an Abenaki Indian woman, a white great horned owl named Wabi transforms into a human being and has several trials and adventures while learning to adapt to his new life.
198 p. 2006
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Calvert, Patricia
Betrayed!
In 1867, after his father's death and his mother's remarriage, fourteen-year-old Tyler and his black friend Isaac set out on the Missouri River headed west to seek their fortunes, encountering an unsavory keel boat captain and a Sioux chief along the way.
212 p. 2002
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Carvell, Marlene
Who Will Tell My Brother?
During his lonely crusade to remove offensive mascots from his high school, a Native American teenager learns more about his heritage, his ancestors, and his place in the world.
150 p. 2002
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Dorris, Michael
Sees Behind Trees
A Native American boy with a special gift to see beyond his poor eyesight journeys with an old warrior to a land of mystery and beauty.
104 p. 1996
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Erdrich, Louise
The Birchbark House
Omakayas, a seven-year-old Ojibwe girl lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847 and learns about her past.
244 p. 1999
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Erdrich, Louise
The Game of Silence
Nine-year-old Omakayas, of the Ojibwa tribe, moves west with her family in 1849. Her name is Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop, and she lives on an island in Lake Superior.It is 1850, and the lives of the Ojibwe have returned to a familiar rhythm: they build their birchbark houses in the summer, go to the ricing camps in the fall to harvest and feast, and move to their cozy cedar log cabins near the town of LaPointe before the first snows. The satisfying routines of Omakayas's days are interrupted by a surprise visit from a group of desperate and mysterious people. From them, she learns that all their lives may drastically change. The chimookomanag, or white people, want Omakayas and her people to leave their island in Lake Superior and move farther west. Omakayas realizes that something so valuable, so important that she never knew she had it in the first place, is in danger: Her home. Her way of life. In this captivating sequel to National Book Award nominee The Birchbark House , Louise Erdrich continues the story of Omakayas and her family.
246 p. 2005
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Erdrich, Louise
The Porcupine Year
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.
193 p. 2008
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Gutman, Dan
Jim Me : a Baseball Card Adventure
Joe and his longtime enemy, Bobby Fuller, use a vintage baseball card to travel in time, hoping to stop Jim Thorpe from participating in the 1912 Olympics and losing his medals, but instead they watch Thorpe struggle during his first season with the New York Giants.
195 p. 2008
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Harrell, Beatrice Orcutt
Longwalker's Journey : a Novel of the Choctaw Trail of Tears
When the government removes their tribe from their sacred homeland in 1831, ten-year-old Minko and his father endure terrible hardships on their journey from Mississippi to Oklahoma, where Minko recieves the name Longwalker.
133 p. 1999
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Hill, Kirkpatrick
Winter Camp
Eleven-year-old Toughboy and his younger sister must survive the harsh Alaskan winter at a friend's winter trapping camp.
185 p. 1993
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Hobbs, Will
Kokopelli's Flute
Thirteen-year-old Tepary discovers an old flute in a cliff dwelling in New Mexico, and through its power he learns about ancient Native American magic.
148 p. 1995
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Mikaelsen, Ben
Touching Spirit Bear
After his anger erupts into violence, Cole, in order to avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the native American Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life.
241 p. 2001
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O'Dell, Scott
Streams to the River, River to the Sea : A Novel of Sacagawea
A young Shoshoni woman, accompanied by her infant and cruel husband, experiences joy and hearbreak when she joins the Lewis and Clark Expedition seeking a way to the Pacific.
191 p. 1986
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Osborne, Mary Pope
Adaline Falling Star
Feeling abandoned by her deceased Arapaho mother and her explorer father, Adaline Falling Star runs away from the prejudiced cousins with whom she is staying and comes close to death in the wilderness, with only a mongrel dog for company.
vi, 170 p. 2000
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Rees, Celia
Sorceress
Eighteen-year-old Agnes, a Mohawk Indian who is descended from a line of shamanic healers, uses her own newly-discovered powers to uncover the story of her ancestor, a seventeenth-century New England English healer who fled charges of witchcraft to make her life with the local Indians.
342 p. 2002
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Rinaldi, Ann
My Heart is On the Ground : The Diary of Nannie Little Rose a Sioux Girl
In the diary account of her life at a government-run Pennsylvania boarding school in 1880, a twelve-year-old Sioux Indian girl reveals a great need to find a way to help her people.
205 p. 1999
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