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Diverse Reads for All Ages Books to Celebrate International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples (August 9) |
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Afloat
by Kirli Saunders
An Elder leads a child along the waterways, sharing her People's knowledge and gathering community, in an uplifting picture book that uses weaving as a metaphor for honoring the teaching of First Nations wisdom and the coming together of people. Simultaneous eBook. Illustrations.
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Indigenous Peoples' Day with Yasmin
by Saadia Faruqi
While learning about Indigenous Peoples' Day, Yasmin and her classmates attend a festival to celebrate the holiday, and after enjoying the beautiful regalia, dancing and drumming, and delicious food, Yasmin learns about Ojibwe dream catchers meant to help protect children. Includes recipe for fry bread
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This Land
by Ashley Fairbanks
Encouraging kids to trace history and explore their communities, this engaging primer about native lands teaches readers that American land, from our backyards to our schools to Disney World, are the traditional homelands of many Indigenous nations. Simultaneous eBook. Illustrations.
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The Storm Runner
by J. C. Cervantes
Middle school student Zane likes nothing better than exploring the mountains around his New Mexico home with his dog, Rosie, in spite of having a disabled leg. At the top of a dormant volcano, Zane discovers a portal into another world, where learns he is the center of a Mayan prophecy that will lead to the rebirth of an ancient god of evil. After Rosie gives everything to protect him, Zane decides to save his dog, no matter the cost -- even if it means jumping headlong into an all-out war between Mayan gods.
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Amazona
by Canizales
Andrea, a young Indigenous Colombian woman, has returned to the land she calls home. Only nineteen years old, she comes to mourn her lost child, carrying a box in her arms. And she comes with another mission. Andrea has hidden a camera upon herself. If she can capture evidence of the illegal mining that displaced her family, it will mark the first step toward reclaiming their land.
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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States for Young People
by Jean Mendoza
Going beyond the story of America as a country "discovered" by a few brave men in the "New World," Indigenous human rights advocate Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz reveals the roles that settler colonialism and policies of American Indian genocide played in forming our national identity. The original academic text is fully adapted by renowned curriculum experts Debbie Reese and Jean Mendoza, for middle-grade and young adult readers to include discussion topics, archival images, original maps, recommendations for further reading, and other materials to encourage students, teachers, and general readers to think critically about their own place in history.
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The Invisible Wild
by Nikki Van De Car
Sixteen-year-old Emma is out running errands when she comes across a boy from Hilo living in the woods, saying things that do not make sense. But Emma has memories of finding a space between “the worlds” as a child, and she soon realizes this boy has accessed the place she lost. Hidden there are the Menehune, spirits who lived in the islands when native Hawaiians first arrived two thousand years ago. Together, Emma and the Hilo boy have to figure out what the Menehune want and break his curse to save the only home any of them have known.
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The Scarf and the Butterfly: A Graphic Memoir of Hope and Healing
by Monica Ittusardjuat
In this visceral graphic memoir, Monica Ittusardjuat brings readers with her from residential school classrooms to government apologies on her journey to rediscovering what it means to be Inuk. Born prematurely in an iglu on Baffin Island, Monica attended three residential schools over eleven years. She details her resulting struggles with addiction, mental health, and domestic violence, which haunted her into adulthood. Equal parts heartbreaking and hopeful, Monica’s memoir is a testimony to the lasting impacts of residential schools and one woman’s fight to reclaim what she lost.
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This Place: 150 Years Retold
by various authors
A graphic novel anthology depicts the last one hundred fifty years of Canadian history, as seen through the eyes of the Indigenous peoples who inhabited the land before the Europeans arrived. Each story includes a timeline of related historical events and a personal note from the author, and cited sources and a select bibliography for further reading can be found in the back of the book.
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Himalaya Bound: One Family's Quest to Save Their Animals-- and an Ancient Way of Life
by Michael Benanav
The author of Men of Salt follows a nomadic family of buffalo herders on their fraught spring migration to the high Himalayan plains in a rapidly changing world. Along the way, he gains insight into this endangered culture, the tense relationship between indigenous peoples and governments, and the risks people take to preserve their age-old ways of life in the face of climate change and political pressure.
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Hula: a novel
by Jasmin 'Iolani Hakes
A young daughter of the legendary Hawaiian Naupaka dynasty dreams of healing the rift in her family by competing in and winning the next Miss Aloha Hula contest and proving herself worthy of carrying on her family's name. Told in part in the collective voice of a community fighting for its survival, Hula follows Hi'i as she works to uphold her family legacy while searching for the answers behind her mother's disappearance and struggling to develop a connection with the community she has never felt like a part of.
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Indigenous Continent : The Epic Contest for North America
by Pekka Hamalainen
In Indigenous Continent, Pekka Hämäläinen overturns the traditional, Eurocentric narrative, demonstrating that, far from being weak and helpless "victims" of European colonialism, Indigenous peoples controlled North America well into the 19th century. Even as the white population skyrocketed and colonists' land greed become ever more extravagant, Indigenous peoples flourished due to sophisticated diplomacy and flexible leadership structures. Hämäläinen ultimately contends that instead of "colonial America" we should speak of an "Indigenous America" that was only slowly and unevenly becoming colonial.
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Living Nations, Living Words: An Anthology of First Peoples Poetry
by Joy Harjo
A powerful, moving anthology that celebrates the breadth of Native poets writing today. This anthology features poems from contemporary Native poets, offering readers the chance to hold the wealth of poems in their hands. With work from Natalie Diaz, Ray Young Bear, Craig Santos Perez, Sherwin Bitsui, Layli Long Soldier, among others, Living Nations, Living Words showcases, as editor Joy Harjo writes in her stirring introduction, "poetry [that] emerges from the soul of a community, the heart and lands of the people. In this country, poetry is rooted in the more than 500 living indigenous nations."
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Return to Blood
by Michael Bennett
After quitting her job as a CIB detective in Auckland following an especially difficult case, Hana Westerman returns to her hometown with her daughter Addison to live with her father, Eru. When Addison finds a young Māori woman's skeleton in the sand dunes of New Zealand, Hana is drawn into a long-cold murder case and risks compromising her own peace and relationships if justice is to be served.
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