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2) LaRose
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Language
English
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Landreaux Iron stalks a deer along the edge of the property bordering his own. He shoots with easy confidence -- but when the buck springs away, Landreaux realizes he's hit something else. When he staggers closer, he realizes he has killed his neighbor's five-year-old son, Dusty. The youngest child of his friend and neighbor, Peter Ravich, Dusty was best friends with Landreaux's five-year-old son, LaRose. The two families have always been close, sharing...
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Language
English
Description
"A snowmelt has sent floodwaters down to the fields of the Red River Valley, dragging the body of an unidentified Native woman into the town of Ada. The only evidence the medical examiner recovers is a torn piece of paper inside her bra: a hymnal written in English and Ojibwe. Cash Blackbear, a 19-year-old Ojibwe woman, sometimes helps Sheriff Wheaton, her guardian, on his investigations. Now she knows her search for justice for this anonymous victim...
5) 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
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
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...
8) The Ojibwe
Author
Series
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the history of the Ojibwe people, their culture before the arrival of the Europeans, their religious beliefs, and how they live today
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
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
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
14) The Ojibwa
Author
Series
Publisher
Chelsea House
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
Examines the culture, history, and changing fortunes of the Ojibwa Indians
Author
Language
English
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Description
An investigation into the symbol of Native heritage. In Ojibwe (or Chippewa in the United States) culture a dream catcher is a hand-crafted willow hoop with woven netting that is decorated with sacred and personal items such as feathers and beads. The Native American tradition of making dream catchers--hoops hung by the Ojibwe on their children's cradleboards to "catch" bad dreams--is rich in history and tradition. Although the exact genesis of this...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Saul Indian Horse is a child when his family retreats into the woods. Among the lakes and the cedars, they attempt to reconnect with half-forgotten traditions and hide from the authorities who have been kidnapping Ojibway youth. But when winter approaches, Saul loses everything: his brother, his parents, his beloved grandmother--and then his home itself. Alone in the world and placed in a horrific boarding school, Saul is surrounded by violence and...
17) SkySisters
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Two young Ojibway sisters walk up a snowy hill on a winter night to see the SkySpirits dance in the Northern Lights
18) The Ojibwe
Author
Series
Publisher
Benchmark Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Discusses the history, culture, social structure, beliefs, and customs of the Ojibwa Indians
19) The Ojibwa
Author
Series
Publisher
Raintree Steck-Vaughn Publishers
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Describes the origins, way of life, key historical events, family life, religion and traditions of the Ojibwa tribe
Author
Series
Civilization of the American Indian volume 148
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
1990.
Language
English
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