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1) Rez ball
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"When the varsity basketball team members take him under their wing, Tre Brun, representing his Ojibwe reservation, steps into his late brother's shoes as star player but soon learns he can't mess up - not on the court, not in school and not in love"
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
With the rising number of missing Indigenous women, her family's involvement in a murder investigation, and grave robbers profiting off her Anishinaabe tribe, Perry takes matters into her own hands to solve the mystery and reclaim her people's inheritance
Author
Series
Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 7
Language
English
Description
Leaving behind a stressful law enforcement career to become a private investigator in his small Minnesota hometown, Cork O'Connor is asked by an Ojibwe healer to help him find the son the man fathered years earlier, a case that culminates in an attempt on the Ojibwe's life
Author
Series
Moon apocalyptic novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When a community of Anishinabe people, with their natural resources dwindling, needs to find a new home, Evan Whitesky leads a dangerous mission back to their ancestral home in the Great Lakes region, during which they encounter other survivors, some who thrive on violence"--
Author
Publisher
Holy Cow! Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The Wolf's Trail tells of Zhi-shay', an elder wolf, and a litter of young wolves living somewhere on the side of a hill overlooking the river that flows through Nagahchiwanong in northern Minnesota. Zhi-shay', who knows the whole story of the parallel relationship between wolves and the Ojibwe going all the way back to the Beginning, sharing it with his nieces and nephews, and us. Replete with universal lessons, The Wolf's Trail is the story of the...
10) The red canoe
Author
Series
Buck Fineday volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Buck, government name Michael Fineday, Ojibwe name Miskwa' doden (Red Deer) is on the brink of suicide. He has just been served divorce papers by his wife Naomi, who is fed up with his savior complex and the danger it often attracts to their door. Living on the border of Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community reservation, Buck makes a living as a boatbuilder and carpenter. He spends his days alone, trying to win the trust of a feral cat ... until a...
Author
Language
English
Description
It is 1953. Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the first factory to open near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a prominent Chippewa Council member, trying to understand a new bill that is soon to be put before Congress. The US Government calls it an 'emancipation' bill; but it isn't about freedom - it threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land, their very identity. How can he fight this betrayal?...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Unaware of a violent event that marked the beginning of her mixed ancestry, an ambitious young part-Ojibwe, part-white girl prone to falling hopelessly in love learns disturbing truths from her gifted storyteller grandfather
14) Love medicine
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The lives and destinies of the Kashpaws and the Lamartines intertwine on and around a North Dakota Indian reservation from 1934 to 1984, in an authentic tale of survival, tenacity, tradition, injustice, and love
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Series
Language
English
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Description
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. To Stephen O'Connor, Hamlet's dour observation is more than just words. All his life, he has had visions of tragedies to come. When he experiences the vision of a great bird shot from the sky, he knows something terrible is about to happen. The crash of a private plane on Desolation Mountain in a remote part of the Iron Lake Reservation, which kills a United...
17) A family tree
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the changes brought upon a beloved family tree that must be uprooted and planted on new land.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cork O'Connor, in the throes of straightening out his life and repairing his marriage, is asked to help with the investigation of an explosion at a Minnesota lumber mill, located near an ancient expanse of great white pine trees sacred to a local Native American tribe
19) Four souls
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Journeying to Minneapolis, where she plans to avenge the loss of her family's land to a lumber baron, a young Native American woman finds herself entangled in a complex relationship
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The latest in the New York Times bestselling Cork O'Connor Mystery Series follows Cork in a race against time to save his wife, a mysterious stranger, and an Ojibwe healer from bloodthirsty mercenaries. The ancient Ojibwe healer Henry Meloux has had a vision of his death. As he walks the Northwoods in solitude, he tries to prepare himself peacefully for the end of his long life. But peace is destined to elude him as hunters fill the woods seeking...
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