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Birchbark house volume 1
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Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe, lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847. For as long as Omakayas can remember, she and her family have lived on the land her people call the Island of the Golden-Breasted Woodpecker. Although the chimookoman, white people, encroach more and more on their land, life continues much as it always has. Every summer the family builds...
5) Skeleton man
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Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Sergeant Jim Chee try to locate the body of a passenger aboard an airliner that crashed fifty years previous and the attache filled with diamonds that he was carrying in order to prove the innocence of a young man, but they are not the only ones in search of the gems.
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AD 520L
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A Native American thanksgiving address, offered to Mother Earth in gratitude for her bounty and for the variety of her creatures, including human beings, is presented by a contemporary Mohawk chief who has delivered the address around the world.
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c1998
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Young Hunter, a Native American shaman, must use his full powers to defeat the threat of a huge water-snake monster that is keeping his people from reaping the harvest of the Petonbowk Lake, and to stop the senseless evil of Watches Darkness, an outcast who has turned against his tribe.
11) Spider Woman's granddaughters: traditional tales and contemporary writing by Native American women
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c1989
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A collection of traditional tales, biographical writings, and contemporary short stories by a variety of Native American women authors.
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