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Red river girl : the life and death of Tina Fontaine / by Jolly, Joanna,author.;
In her debut book, award-winning BBC reporter Joanna Jolly provides an account of the unsolved death of an Indigenous teenager whose body was found in Winnipeg's Red River, and the detective determined to find her killer, set against the backdrop of a troubled city.
Subjects: Fontaine, Tina, 1999-2014.; Cormier, Raymond (Raymond Joseph); Murder; Murder; Native women;
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The Birchbark House [electronic resource] : by Erdrich, Louise.aut; cloudLibrary;
This National Book Award finalist by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Louise Erdrich is the first installment in an essential nine-book series chronicling one hundred years in the life of one Ojibwe family and includes beautiful interior black-and-white artwork done by the author. She was named Omakakiins, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop. Omakakiins and her family live on an island in Lake Superior. Though there are growing numbers of white people encroaching on their land, life continues much as it always has. But the satisfying rhythms of their life are shattered when a visitor comes to their lodge one winter night, bringing with him an invisible enemy that will change things forever—but that will eventually lead Omakakiins to discover her calling. By turns moving and humorous, this novel is a breathtaking tour de force by a gifted writer. The beloved and essential Birchbark House series by Louise Erdrich includes The Birchbark House, The Game of Silence, The Porcupine Year, Chickadee, and Makoons.
Subjects: Electronic books.; Multigenerational; 19th Century; Girls & Women; Native American; Classics; Environment;
© 2021., HarperCollins,
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In my own moccasins : a memoir of resilience / by Knott, Helen,1987-author.; Robinson, Eden,writer of foreword.;
Includes bibliographical references."Helen Knott, a highly accomplished Indigenous woman, seems to have it all. But in her memoir, she offers a different perspective. In My Own Moccasins is an unflinching account of addiction, intergenerational trauma, and the wounds brought on by sexual violence. It is also the story of sisterhood, the power of ceremony, the love of family, and the possibility of redemption. With gripping moments of withdrawal, times of spiritual awareness, and historical insights going back to the signing of Treaty 8 by her great-great grandfather, Chief Bigfoot, her journey exposes the legacy of colonialism, while reclaiming her spirit. Helen Knott is a Dane Zaa, Nehiyaw, and mixed Euro-descent woman living in Fort St. John, British Columbia. In 2016 Helen was one of sixteen global change makers featured by the Nobel Women's Initiative for being committed to end gender-based violence. Helen was selected as a 2019 RBC Taylor Prize Emerging Author. This is her first book. Eden Robinson is the award-winning author of Monkey Beach, Son of a Trickster, and other novels. She is a member of the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations."-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Biographies.; Knott, Helen, 1987-; Recovering addicts; Victims of crimes; Native peoples; Indigenous women ; Indigenous women ;
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Together we drum, our hearts beat as one / by Poll, Willie.; Chief Lady Bird,1993-;
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Subjects: Stories in rhyme.; First Nations women; Native children; Indigenous children;
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I am woman : a native perspective on sociology and feminism / by Maracle, Lee,1950-;
Lee Maracle's story explores the issues of sovereignty and native women, the struggles that native people especially native women have endured over the centuries.LSC
Subjects: Maracle, Lee, 1950-; Indian women; Indian women;
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Famous Native North Americans / by Kalman, Bobbie,1947-; Aloian, Molly.; Bedell, Barbara.; Kantor, Katherine.; Rouse, Bonna.; Reiach, Margaret Amy.;
Profiles Native Americans who made significant differences in the histories of their own nations, and in the history of the United States and Canada, as interpreters, guides, warriors, and peacemakers.
Subjects: Indians of North America; Indian women; Women;
© c2004., Crabtree Publishing,
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The storyteller / by Hobson, Brandon.;
Ziggy's mother disappeared ten years ago, one of the many Native women who have mysteriously gone missing, and Ziggy believes a secret cave may hold the key--so with his sister, Moon, and friends Alice and Corso, he sets out to find the cave and solve the mystery of his family's origins.
Subjects: Action and adventure fiction.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Cherokee boys; Cherokee Indians; Missing persons; Mothers; Siblings; Storytellers; Magic;
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Missing from Fire Trail Road [videorecording] / by Haaland, Debra A.,1960-on-screen participant.; Johnson-Davis, Mary Ellen,on-screen participant.; Van Tassel, Sabrina,1975-film director,film producer,screenwriter.; White, Roxanne,on-screen participant.; FilmRise (Firm),production company.; MVD Visual (Firm),film distributor.;
Roxanne White, Mary Ellen Johnson-davis, Deb Haaland, Deborah Parker.A riveting documentary detailing the case of Mary Ellen Johnson-Davis, a Native American woman who disappeared in 2020. Her story exposes how Indigenous women continue to go missing in the USA, perpetuating trans-generational trauma on reservations.E.DVD.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Nonfiction films.; Johnson-Davis, Mary Ellen.; Indigenous women; Indigenous women; Indigenous women; Indigenous women; Missing persons; Murder;
For private home use only.
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Blood sisters / by Lillie, Vanessa,author.;
"A powerful mystery about a Native American archaeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs who must reckon with her past when she is called back to Oklahoma to investigate both the disappearance of her sister and a new case of a missing Native girl that turns up evidence with her name on it. Syd Walker fled her rural Oklahoma hometown-scarred by abandoned mines and a mounting opioid crisis-and never looked back. Now, she lives in Rhode Island as an archaeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs. It's Syd's job to make sure the Indigenous past isn't erased so that their future is preserved, too. When a woman's skull is found by local Indian Affairs authorities and Syd's sister is reported missing, she knows she must return home. She doesn't want her sister, Emma Lou, to become another statistic in the rising number of missing Native women cases that go uninvestigated. But not everyone is glad to have Syd home. After all, she still works for the BIA. Class tensions, land disputes, and the aftermath of a traumatizing act of violence from her youth come roaring back. Syd must battle her own demons and those set on destroying her town and her people if she's ever going to find Emma Lou"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Archaeologists; Indigenous women; Missing persons; Secrecy; Sisters; Women archaeologists;
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Every drop is a man's nightmare : stories / by Kakimoto, Megan Kamalei,author.;
"From Rona Jaffe Foundation scholar Megan Kakimoto, a blazing, bodily, raucous journey through contemporary Hawaiian identity and womanhood, introducing a major new storytelling talent. Megan Kakimoto's wrenching and sensational debut story collection follows a cast of mixed native Hawaiian and Japanese women through a contemporary landscape thick with inherited wisdom and the ghosts of colonization. This is a Hawai'i where unruly sexuality and generational memory overflow the postcard image of paradise and the boundaries of the real, where the superstitions born of the islands take on the weight of truth. A childhood encounter with a wild pua'a (boar) on the haunted Pali highway portends one young woman's increasingly frightening pregnant body. An elderly widow begins seeing her deceased lover in a giant flower. A kanaka writer, mid-manuscript, feels her raw pages quaking and knocking in the briefcase. For readers of Kawai Strong Washburn's Sharks in the Time of Saviors and Jocelyn Nicole Johnson's My Monticello, Every Drop Is a Man's Nightmare is both a fierce love letter to Hawaiian identity and mythology, and a searing dispatch from an occupied territory simmering with tension"--
Subjects: Short stories.; Racially mixed women; Hawaiian women; Self-realization in women; Women;
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