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Indians of the Plains
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Lowie, Robert Harry |
Information concerning Indian tribes living in the plains area, including the Cree, Ojibwa, Kiowa, Wichita, Sioux (Dakota), Comanche and Ute. |
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Indian why stories
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Linderman, Frank Bird |
Retells twenty-two "why stories" of the Blackfeet, Chippewa, and Cree tribes, including tales of the creation and of the willful and wily doings of the creator, Old-man. |
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Through Black Spruce
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Joseph Boyden |
From internationally acclaimed author Joseph Boyden comes an astonishingly powerful novel of contemporary Aboriginal life, full of the dangers and harsh beauty of both forest and city. When beautiful… |
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The Cree
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Ruth Bjorklund |
"Provides comprehensive information on the background, lifestyle, beliefs, and present-day lives of the Cree people"--Provided by publisher. |
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Wandering Spirit
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Garry Radison |
First and only full-length biography of Big Bear's war chief, Wandering Spirit, the most misunderstood figure of the 1885 resistance. |
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Red River stallion
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Troon Harrison |
In 1830s Canada, a thirteen-year-old Cree girl journeys westward from York Factory to the Red River valley, lured by a Norfolk trotter horse and determined to find her Scottish fur trader father. |
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No way, Winky Blue!
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Pamela Jane |
A traditional Cree Indian story about how a mouse burned its teeth when it tried to free the sun from a snare. |
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Wild berries =
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Julie Flett |
When Clarence and his grandma go berry picking, they eat until their lips turn purple and watch the wildlife around them.
Clarence and his grandmother pick wild blueberries and meet ant, spider, and… |
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Up Ghost River
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Edmund Metatawabin |
In the 1950s, 7-year-old Edmund Metatawabin was separated from his family and placed in one of Canada's worst residential schools. St. Anne's, in northernn Ontario, is an institution now notorious fo… |
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Stories from the rebellion
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Bob Steele |
"Stories from the Rebellion" is an account of the history of the Northwest Rebellion of 1885. Sections outlining the tragic events are interwoven with the observations of a fictional character, the y… |
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I dream of yesterday and tomorrow
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Michael Gnarowski |
This volume of legends, excerpts from the written historical record, essays, photographs, interviews, and reminisces, is a unique assemblage of materials that present the lives of the James Bay Cree … |
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Des pas sur la neige
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Carol Matas |
In 1815, after immigrating from Scotland to Canada, thirteen-year-old Isobel chronicles her family's experiences as they adjust to their new home in Rupert's Land, Manitoba, with the help of their Cr… |
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Going to visit Kou-Kum
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Della Owens |
Grade level: 1, 2, 3, k, p, e. |
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Kiss of the fur queen
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Tomson Highway |
The impact of "civilization" on the peoples who aren't westerners or haven't been westernized. |
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The Isaac Cowie collection of Plains Cree material culture from Central Alberta
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James W. VanStone |
The collections of the Field Museum of Natural History contain 110 ethnographic objects collected among the Plains Cree of central Alberta in 1892 for the World's Columbian Exposition by Isaac Cowie,… |
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The white man's gonna getcha
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Toby Elaine Morantz |
"In The White Man's Gonna Getcha Toby Morantz examines threats to the cultural and economic independence of the Crees in eastern James Bay. She argues that while their eighteenth- and nineteenth-cent… |
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Through black spruce
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Joseph Boyden |
A haunting novel about identity, love, and loss by the author of Three Day RoadWill Bird is a legendary Cree bush pilot, now lying in a coma in a hospital in his hometown of Moose Factory, Ontario. H… |
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What the land provides
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Martin S. Weinstein |
Since the early 1970s many Canadian aboriginal communities have initiated major mapping research projects to document their use and occupancy of historical lands. The studies were designed for assess… |
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Halfbreed
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Maria Campbell |
For Maria Campbell, a Canadian métis, the brutal realities of poverty, pain, and degradation intrude in childhood and follow her every step. "I write this for all of you, to tell you what it is like … |
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John Tootoosis
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Jean; Sluman, Norma Goodwill |
John Tootoosis is an important, exciting book for our society today. It is not only about a man; it is about history in the making -- from an Indian viewpoint. Too often only one side has been told. … |
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