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(Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma) A novel—which grapples with the complex history of Native Americans and a plague of addiction, abuse and suicide—follows 12 characters, each of whom has private reasons for traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow. Reprint. A New York Times best-seller.
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(Mvskoke Nation) Poetry from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States, Joy Harjo. Harjo finds blessings in the abundance of her homeland and confronts the site where the Mvskoke people, including her own ancestors, were forcibly displaced. From her memory of her mother’s death, to her beginnings in the Native rights movement, to the fresh road with her beloved, Harjo’s personal life intertwines with tribal histories to create a space for renewed beginnings.
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(Ohloen-Costanoan Esselen Nation of California) Part tribal history, part lyric and intimate memoir, Deborah A. Miranda tells stories of her Ohlone Costanoan Esselen family as well as the experience of California Indians as a whole through oral histories, newspaper clippings, anthropological recordings, personal reflections, and poems. The result is a work of literary art that is wise, angry, and playful all at once, a compilation that will break your heart and teach you to see the world anew.
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(Cherokee Nation Tribe)
With his single mother in jail, Sequoyah, a fifteen-year-old Cherokee boy, is placed in foster care with the Troutt family. Literally and figuratively scarred by his unstable upbringing, Sequoyah has spent years mostly keeping to himself, living with his emotions pressed deep below the surface--that is, until he meets the seventeen-year-old Rosemary, another youth staying with the Troutts.
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(Red Pheasant Cree Nation) Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential school, five former students are barely out of childhood when they are finally released after years of detention. Their story is told from alternating view points as the former students struggle to survive in 1960s Vancouver after years of trauma. The book is inspired by the author's experiences.
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(Karuk Tribe)
"Memoir by Ursula Pike (Karuk) of her time serving with the Peace Corps in Bolivia. Focusing on international travel from a California Indian perspective, the memoir asks what it means to be both colonizer and colonized, and inquires into the challenges of building relationships between Indigenous groups from very different places"
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The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay area by Malcolm MargolinDescribes the culture of Native American inhabitants in the California Bay Area prior to the arrival of Europeans, offering insight into the daily lives, culture and rituals of the Ohlone while tracing their experiences under Spanish, Mexican and American regimes. By the author of The Way We Lived.
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(Mvskoke Nation)
An anthology of Native nations poetry. United States Poet Laureate Joy Harjo gathers the work of more than 160 poets, representing nearly 100 indigenous nations, into the first historically comprehensive Native poetry anthology. This landmark anthology celebrates the indigenous peoples of North America, the first poets of this country, whose literary traditions stretch back centuries.
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(Raramuri Tribe of Northwestern Mexico)
The belief that all life-forms are interconnected and share the same breath--known in the Rarámuri tribe as iwígara--has resulted in a treasury of knowledge about the natural world, passed down for millennia by native cultures. Ethnobotanist Enrique Salmón builds on this concept of connection and highlights 80 plants revered by North America's indigenous peoples. Salmón teaches us the ways plants are used as food and medicine, the details of their identification and harvest, their important health benefits, plus their role in traditional stories and myths.
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(Potawatomi Nation)
A leading researcher in the field of biology, Robin Wall Kimmerer understands the delicate state of our world. But as an active member of the Potawatomi nation, she senses and relates to the world through a way of knowing far older than any science. In Braiding Sweetgrass, she intertwines these two modes of awareness--the analytic and the emotional, the scientific and the cultural--to ultimately reveal a path toward healing the rift that grows between people and nature.
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(Lipan Apache Tribe)
Imagine an America very similar to our own. This America been shaped dramatically by the magic, monsters, knowledge, and legends of its peoples. Elatsoe lives in this slightly stranger America. She can raise the ghosts of dead animals, a skill passed down through generations of her Lipan Apache family. Her beloved cousin has just been murdered, in a town that wants no prying eyes. But she is going to do more than pry.
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(Onondaga Nation)
The Native American author recounts the story of his family, from the legacy of government boarding schools to his personal experiences fighting to be an artist balancing multiple worlds
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(White Earth/Leech Lake Ojibwe Tribe)
An Ojibwe scholar and cultural preservationist answers the most commonly asked questions about Native Americans, both historical and modern
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While working with the new photojournalist to cover the school musical's ethnically diverse casting, Muscogee (Creek) Louise Wolfe finds herself confronting the politics of being Native and the feasibility of dating while Native
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The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline (Georgian Bay Métis Community)
In a world where most people have lost the ability to dream, a fifteen-year-old Indigenous boy who is still able to dream struggles for survival against an army of "recruiters" who seek to steal his marrow and return dreams to the rest of the world.
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(Red River Métis)
Echo Desjardins, a thirteen-year-old Métis girl, is struggling with feelings of loneliness while attending a new school and living with a new foster family. Then in history class Echo finds herself transported to another time and place—a bison hunt on the Saskatchewan prairie—and back again. In the following weeks, Echo slips back and forth in time. She visits a Métis camp, travels the old fur-trade routes and experiences the perilous era of the pemmican wars. (4 book series)
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(Ojibwe from Couchiching First Nation) Art by Scott Henderson
When two white teenagers accidentally set fire to a gas station, their Indigenous classmates are wrongly accused. The truth slowly comes to light as contrasting systems of justice are explored—both the traditional ways of the community and Canadian law enforcement.
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(Métis)
Two Aboriginal brothers, surrounded by poverty and drug abuse, try to overcome centuries of historic trauma in very different ways to bring about positive change in their lives. The Outside Circle is drawn from the author’s twenty years of work and research on healing and reconciliation of Aboriginal men who are gang-affiliated or incarcerated.
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(Inninewak (Cree) and Trinidaidan) Art by Michaela Goade (Tingit, member of the Kiks.ådi Clan)
Miikwan and Dez are best friends. Miikwan is Anishinaabe; Dez is Inninew. Together, the teens navigate the challenges of growing up in an urban landscape. However, when Dez’s grandmother becomes too sick, Dez is told she can’t stay with her anymore. With the threat of a group home looming, Dez can’t bring herself to go home and disappears. Miikwan is devastated, and the wound of her missing mother resurfaces.
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AICLProvides critical analysis of Indigenous peoples in children's and young adult books.
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mak-'amhamStrengthening Ohlone food sovereignty in the East Bay. Coming soon to the UC Berkeley campus.
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Urban Indigenous women-led land trust that facilitates the return of Indigenous land to Indigenous people.
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Established in 1955 in Oakland- one of the first urban American Indian community centers in the nation.
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Interactive exhibit offers the chance to learn to speak Chochenyo.
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Bay CuriousEpisode: A Look Back at the Occupation of Alcatraz 50 Years Later.
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pt. 1 & 2" with Corrina Gould and Val Lopez
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Eastbay YesterdayEpisode 17: "Where are those ancestors now? How battles over sacred sites have revived Ohlone culture."
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All My RelationsA podcast to discuss our relationships as Native peoples- to land, ancestors, and to each other.
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Metis in SpaceUnapologetically Indigenous, unabashedly female and unblinkingly nerdy.
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Heritage Voices Centering Indigenous & traditional community voices in discussion on anthropology, CRM/Heritage and Land Management.
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Coffee & Quaq Celebrate, share, and explore the collective experience of contemporary Native life in urban Alaska.
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The Native Seed Pod Exploring and celebrating Native foodways, ancestral seeds, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge.
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UnspokenExamines the history, operation, and legacy of the federal Indian Boarding School system.
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Beyond RecognitionLocal Ohlone activists from Indian People Organizing for Change share their story of preserving culture and homeland.
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Indigenous produced animation video about domestic violence against Urban Indian women.
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BURIALCorinna Gould talks about the destruction of sacred sites, with a focus on the shellmounds in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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