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- Carry : a memoir of survival on stolen land / by Jensen, Toni,author.;
"A powerful, poetic memoir about what it means to exist as an indigenous woman in America, told in snapshots of the author's encounters with gun violence--for readers of Jesmyn Ward and Terese Marie Mailhot. Toni Jensen grew up in the Midwest around guns: As a girl, she learned how to shoot birds with her father, a card-carrying member of the NRA. As an adult, she's had guns waved in her face in the fracklands around Standing Rock, and felt their silent threat on the concealed-carry campus where she teaches. And she has always known she is not alone. As a Métis woman, she is no stranger to the violence enacted on the bodies of indigenous women, on indigenous land, and the ways it is hidden, ignored, forgotten. In Carry, Jensen maps her personal experience onto the historical, exploring how history is lived in the body and redefining the language we use to speak about violence in America. In the title chapter, Jensen recalls the discrimination she faced in college as a Native American student from her roommate to her faculty adviser. "The Worry Line" explores the gun and gang violence in her neighborhood the year her daughter was born. "At the Workshop" focuses on her graduate school years, during which a classmate repeatedly wrote stories in which he killed thinly veiled versions of her. In "Women in the Fracklands," Jensen takes the reader inside Standing Rock during the Dakota Access pipeline protests, as well as the peril faced by women, in regions overcome by the fracking boom. In prose at once forensic and deeply emotional, Toni Jensen shows herself to be a brave new voice and a fearless witness to her own difficult history--as well as to the violent cultural landscape in which she finds her coordinates as a Native American woman. With each chapter, Carry reminds us that surviving in one's country is not the same as surviving one's country."--- Subjects: Biographies.; Jensen, Toni.; Métis women; Indigenous women activists; Indigenous women;
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- Little Bird [videorecording] / by Adams, Claire,1898-1978,television producer.; Brunel, Tanya,television producer.; Chabot, Philippe(Producer),television producer.; Contois, Darla,actor.; Dennis, Darrell,screenwriter.; Dunn, Jessica(Producer),television producer.; Edelstein, Lisa,1967-actor.; Hopkins, Zoe,television director,screenwriter.; Jade, Ellyn,actor.; Lozinski, Lori,television producer.; Masters, Shannon,screenwriter.; Moscovitch, Hannah,screenwriter.; Rutter, Ellen,1959-television producer.; Tailfeathers, Elle-Máijá,television director.; McIntyre Media,distributor.;
Darla Contois, Ellyn Jade, Lisa Edelstein.Little Bird is a six-part dramatic series about an Indigenous woman on a journey to find her birth family and uncover the hidden truth of her past. Bezhig Little Bird was adopted into a Jewish family at the age of five, being stripped of her identity and becoming Esther Rosenblum. Now in her 20s, Bezhig longs for the family she lost and to fill in the missing pieces. Her quest lands her in the Canadian prairies where she discovers that she was one of the generation of children forcibly apprehended by the Canadian government through a policy, later coined the 60s Scoop.PG.DVD.- Subjects: Fiction television programs.; Television programs.; Television mini-series.; Historical television programs.; Adoptees; Families; Identity (Psychology); Indigenous children; Indigenous peoples; Sixties Scoop, Canada, 1951-ca. 1980;
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- The forgotten frontier [graphic novel] / by Jones, Tristan,author.; Bumbulut, Alexander,illustrator.;
The Western Frontier is arguably one of the most widely misrepresented histories, rife with inaccuracies and stereotypes. Author Tristan Jones reimagines a historical retelling of the Frontier through the lens of Truth and Reconciliation. With a focus on the historically missing Indigenous narrative, Jones manages the enormous feat of creating a link to the past while imagining a path forward for the future. Lavishly illustrated by master sequential artist Alexander Bumbulut, this new title is poised to revolutionize the graphic novel medium.- Subjects: Graphic novels.; Historical comics.; Western comics.; Apache women; Gunfights; Outlaws; Sheriffs; Small cities;
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- Peyakow : reclaiming Cree dignity / by McLeod, Darrel J.,author.;
"Mamaskatch, Darrel J McLeod's 2018 memoir of growing up Cree in Northern Alberta, was a publishing sensation--winning the Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction, shortlisted for many other major prizes and translated into French and German editions. In Peyakow, McLeod continues the poignant story of his impoverished youth, beset by constant fears of being dragged down by the self-destruction and deaths of those closest to him as he battles the bullying of white classmates, copes with the trauma of physical and sexual abuse, and endures painful separation from his family and culture. With steely determination, he triumphs: now elementary teacher; now school principal; now head of an Indigenous delegation to the UN in Geneva; now executive in the Government of Canada--and now a celebrated author. Brutally frank but buoyed throughout by McLeod's unquenchable spirit, Peyakow--a title borrowed from the Cree word for "one who walks alone"--is an inspiring account of triumph against unimaginable odds. McLeod's perspective as someone whose career path has crossed both sides of the Indigenous/white chasm resonates with particular force in today's Canada."--- Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; McLeod, Darrel J.; Indigenous men; Indigenous men; Cree; First Nations;
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- Catch the fair one [videorecording] / by Chu, Tiffany,actor.; Henshall, Daniel,1983-actor.; Reis, Kali,actor.; Wladyka, Josef Kubota,screenwriter,film director,film producer.; RLJ Entertainment,film distributor.;
Kali Reis, Daniel Henshall, Tiffany Chu, Michael Drayer, Lisa Emery.Buffalo boxer Kaylee (Kali Reis, who co-wrote) retreated into a corner of drug dependency after the disappearance of her kid sister Weeta (Mainaku Borrero). Finding Weeta's picture in the online ad of a sex trafficking ring, she offers her services as a new worker to the creeps running the operation ... with the endgame of finding her sibling and then punching their way out. Intense effort also stars Kimberly Guerrero, Shelly Vincent, Kevin Dunn.14A.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.- Subjects: Crime films.; Feature films.; Thrillers (Motion pictures); Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Boxing; Crime; Indigenous peoples; Missing persons; Sisters; Women boxers; Indigenous athletes;
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- Turtle Island : the story of North America's first people / by Yellowhorn, Eldon,1956-; Lowinger, Kathy.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Unlike most books that chronicle the history of Native peoples beginning with the arrival of Europeans in 1492, this book goes back to the Ice Age to give young readers a glimpse of what life was like pre-contact. The title, Turtle Island, refers to a Native myth that explains how North and Central America were formed on the back of a turtle. Based on archeological finds and scientific research, we now have a clearer picture of how the Indigenous people lived. Using that knowledge, the authors take the reader back as far as 14,000 years ago to imagine moments in time.- Subjects: Indigenous peoples;
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- Kaya rides to the rescue / by Berne, Emma Carlson,1979-; Shaw, Janet Beeler,1937-;
"Kaya is a Nez Perce girl who takes pride in helping out and supporting the tribe<U+2014>and also in her beloved horse, Steps High. But when she chooses racing her horse over family responsibilities, Kaya has to prove herself to earn her tribe's respect."--Barnes & Noble.Grades 1-3.LSC- Subjects: Historical fiction.; Girls; Families; Horses; Indigenous peoples; Nez Percé Indians; Indians of North America; Nez Percé; First Nations;
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- Blood quantum [videorecording] / by Barnaby, Jeff,screenwriter,film director.; Goeman, Stonehorse Lone,actor.; Goodluck, Forrest,1998-actor.; Gordon, Kiowa,1990-actor.; Greyeyes, Michael,actor.; Scriven, Olivia,actor.; Tailfeathers, Elle-Máijá,actor.; Elevation Pictures,publisher.;
Michael Greyeyes, Elle-Maija Tailfeathers, Forrest Goodluck, Kiowa Gordon, Olivia Scriven, Stonehorse Lone Goeman.The dead are coming back to life outside the isolated Mi'gMaq reserve of Red Crow, except for its Indigenous inhabitants who are strangely immune to the zombie plague.Canadian Home Video Rating: 18A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.- Subjects: Horror films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Zombie films.; Zombies; Indigenous reservations; Mi'kmaq;
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- Beans [videorecording] / by Kiawentiio,actor.; Beauvais, Violah,actor.; Deer, Tracey,film director.; Vuchnich, Meredith,actor.; Métropole Films Distribution,film distributor.; Mongrel Media,film distributor.;
Kiawentiio, Violah Beauvais, Meredith Vuchnich.In 1990, two Mohawk communities enter into a 78-day armed standoff with government forces to protect a burial ground from developers.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.Subtitled for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).DVD ; wide screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.- Subjects: Feature films.; Fiction films.; Historical films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Indigenous peoples; Mohawk youth; Mohawk; Mohawk;
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- Sarah Ponakey, Storycatcher and Âhâsiw’s Forest Powwow [electronic resource] : by MacMillan, Sita.aut; Whitecalf, Azby.ill; cloudLibrary;
A vibrant debut early chapter book series celebrating Cree culture and being true to yourself. Look for Book 2, Muskwa’s Tipi Talks, coming in Spring 2025! Sarah Ponakey has moved to the city from her home community with her mom and it’s the pits! She misses her Kôhkom, her best friend Eden, and the forests around her community. She’s had a hard time making new friends at school but at least she keeps in touch with Eden through meticulously written letters with very big words. After a particularly tough day where she nearly loses her favorite stuffed animal, Âhâsiw, and is brushed off by her mom, Sarah finds herself transported to a magical forest powwow . . . Accompanied by a life-sized Âhâsiw in his beautiful regalia, Sarah watches in excitement as a chipmunk emcees, and bears play the host drum at her first ever powwow. The more she sees, the more her confidence grows. As she joins in the celebration, Sarah discovers that she can connect to her Cree culture no matter where she is. Her Kôhkom’s going to love this story! Âhâsiw’s Forest Powwow, the first book from debut children’s author Sita MacMillan, features Cree words throughout the story and a note to the reader. Azby Whitecalf’s dynamic illustrations bring life to this warm, charming, and funny introduction to Sarah Ponakey, the storycatcher.ONGOING SERIES: First in the early chapter book series Sarah Ponakey, Storycatcher. Each book features a different Cree cultural element as well as Cree words in the story. SERIES ROLLOUT: Book 2 in the series is coming Spring 2025. Book 1 includes a teaser chapter for the next book in the back. SEL TITLE: Each book will deal with an internal issue Sarah is facing. Book 1 features a powwow where Sarah learns confidence in herself and in her culture. NEW EXPERIENCES: Highly relatable themes include starting a new school, fitting in, and making friends. READER ENGAGEMENT: Each book features a letter from the author to the reader INDIGENOUS JOY: The series showcases Indigenous pride and joy. The issues in this series don’t deal with racism or prejudice, but things all kids face at this age. FOR FANS OF: The Nguyen Kids series, and the Jo Jo Makoons series LEVELING INFO: Coming soonChildren/juvenile.- Subjects: Electronic books.; Native Canadian; Bedtime & Dreams; Animals; Chapter Books;
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