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When two boys disappear from a remote cattle station, local police sergeant Emma James calls in indigenous detective Jay Swan to help find out what happened. As Emma and Jay butt heads over their conflicting methods, the unexpected arrival of Jay's troubled daughter only inflames the tension. But when their investigation uncovers other crimes haunting the backwater town, the detectives must look to the past to get justice in the present.
2) Mecca
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"A California epic following several native, diverse Californians grasping for air in a world that continues to marginalize them"--
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Annick Press
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English
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"The first treaty that was made was between the earth and the sky. It was an agreement to work together. We build all of our treaties on that original treaty. On the banks of the river that have been Mishomis's home his whole life, he teaches his granddaughter to listen--to hear both the sounds and the silences, and so to learn her place in Creation. Most importantly, he teaches her about treaties--the bonds of reciprocity and renewal that endure...
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"Indigenous Peoples' Day is about celebrating! The second Monday in October is a day to honor Native American people, their histories, and cultures. People mark the day with food, dancing, and songs. Readers will discover how a shared holiday can have multiple traditions and be celebrated in all sorts of ways"--
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Ambrosia
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"tawâw [ta-wow; Cree]: "Welcome, there is room." Indigenous cuisine, like other aspects of Indigenous cultures, is now reawakening with a fresh vitality and creative energy unlike anything we've seen in decades. With Tawâw: Progressive Indigenous Cuisine, acclaimed chef Shane Chartrand hopes to ignite the imagination of a new generation of culinary talent who will create a more inclusive understanding of what it means to cook, eat, and share food...
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English
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Oscar Hokeah́s debut takes us into the life of Ever Geimausaddle, whose familýpart Mexican, part Native Americańis determined to hold onto their community despite obstacles everywhere they turn. Eveŕs father is injured at the hands of corrupt police on the border when he goes to visit family in Mexico, while his mother struggles both to keep her job and care for her husband. And young Ever is lost and angry at all that he doesńt understand, at...
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Annick Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"Indigenous people across Turtle Island have been faced with disease, war, broken promises, and forced assimilation. Despite crushing losses and insurmountable challenges, they formed new nations from the remnants of old ones, they adopted new ideas and built on them, they fought back, they kept their cultures alive, and they survived. Key events in Indigenous history with accounts of the people, places, and events that have mattered from the 12th...
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Vision Maker Media
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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For millennia, Alaska Native peoples thrived in the seasonally harsh conditions of life in the far north. They depended upon strong social, cultural and spiritual practices passed from generation to generation. In the last century, rapid and forced changes in the life ways of Alaska Native peoples created many complex, painful scars for Elders who experienced them, and for their children’s children. In a landscape as dramatic as its stories, WE...
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Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"An accessible and educational illustrated book profiling 50 notable American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian people, from NBA star Kyrie Irving of the Standing Rock Lakota to Wilma Mankiller, the first female principal chief of the Cherokee Nation"--
12) Throat Song
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Network Ireland Television
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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In the snowy and mystic landscape of Iqaluit, Nunavut, a small town in the Canadian Arctic, Ippik, a young Inuk woman, is silently suffering from the pains of an abusive relationship. Lost in a community that’s been tragically separated from its past, Ippik, through a job with the Department of Justice, begins to connect with other victims of violence in her community, and seeks to reclaim her voice. Winner of Best Short Film at the American Indian...
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Second Story Press
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English
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"A picture book based on a true story about a young First Nations girl who was sent to a residential school. When eight-year-old Irene is removed from her First Nations family to live in a residential school she is confused, frightened, and terribly homesick. She tries to remember who she is and where she came from despite the efforts of the nuns to force her to do otherwise. Based on the life of Jenny Kay Dupuis' own grandmother, I Am Not a Number...
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Annick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"From healing to astronomy to our connection to the natural world, the lessons from Indigenous knowledge inform our learning and practices today. How do knowledge systems get passed down over generations? Through the knowledge inherited from their Elders and ancestors, Indigenous Peoples throughout North America have observed, practiced, experimented, and interacted with plants, animals, the sky, and the waters over millennia. Knowledge keepers have...
15) Africa
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AV2 by Weigl
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Did you know that the continent of Africa is home to animals that people in other parts of the world can only see in zoos? Elephants, gorillas, cheetahs, lions, and giraffes can all be found in Africa. Discover more intriguing facts about Africa in this book.
16) Asia
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AV2 by Weigl
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Describes the size, location, land, animals, plants, history, people, and landmarks of Asia.
17) Australia
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AV2 by Weigl
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Describes Australia's location, size, landforms, animals, plants, history, natural wonders, and people.
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English
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"Weaving her own story with the story of her ancestors and with the broader themes of creation, replacement, and disappearance, Krawec helps readers see settler colonialism through the eyes of an Indigenous writer. Settler colonialism tried to force us into one particular way of living, but the old ways of kinship can help us imagine a different future. Krawec asks, What would it look like to remember that we are all related? How might we become better...
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"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"--