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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
At the woods' edge	Brenda Katlatont Gabriel-Doxtater	vii, 394 p. : ill. ; 28 cm	OL11559594W
Manituana	Ming Wu	WU MING is a collective of five Italian fiction writers, founded in Bologna in January 2000. Their books include the bestselling novel Q, under the previous pseudonym of Luther Blissett, nominated fo…	OL11702534W
Bearwalker	Joseph Bruchac,Sally Wern Comport	As a member of the Mohawk Bear Clan, Baron has always been fascinated by bears — their gentle strength and untamed power. But the Bearwalker legend, passed down by his ancestors, tells of a different…	OL121189W
Eagle song	Joseph Bruchac	After moving from a Mohawk reservation to Brooklyn, New York, eight-year-old Danny Bigtree encounters stereotypes about his Native American heritage.	OL15069239W
Mohawk; the life of Joseph Brant	John Jakes	A biography of the Mohawk Indian chief, statesman, and missionary who led the Iroquois forces on the British side during the Revolutionary War.	OL16420879W
Mohawk trail	Beth Brant	"Beth Brant, a gifted Native American writer, explores her several families -- families connected by blood, by gayness, and by their urban working-class lives."--Jacket.	OL2387691W
On the beams	Arlene Krueschek	Describes how Mohawk Indians became involved in constructing skyscrapers in the Northeastern U.S.	OL24272948W
Les Mohawks et le masque des récoltes	Michel Noël	Ce titre s'insère dans une série de petites fictions mettant en scène les Mohawks: un peuple amérindien sédentaire appartenant à la famille des Iroquoiens, qui habitait principalement sur les rives d…	OL24280995W
Get real!	Robert Cutting	Grandpa is always teaching Jake neat things about their Kanienkeha'ka culture. But what does Grandpa mean when he keeps telling Jake to "get real"? Follow Jake's story as he learns the Kanienkeha'ka …	OL24912522W
War on the Middleline	James E. Richmond	"In 1768 the sixty-year struggle to open the lands of the Kayaderrosseras Patent north of Albany for settlement was finally resolved. The long conflict with France was over, and disputes over ownersh…	OL27301533W
Empire dreams	Wendy Wax	In 1930 in New York City, as she worries about the Depression's effect on her family, eleven-year-old Julie takes a personal interest in the building of the Empire State Building and befriends a Moha…	OL2774206W
Giving Thanks	Jake Swamp	The words in this book are based on the Thanksgiving, an ancient message of peace and gratitude to Mother Earth and all her inhabitants. These words of thanks come to us through the native people kno…	OL3245294W
The Mohawk	Jill Duvall	Highlights the history and some of the political and social traditions of the Mohawk tribe and Iroquois confederation.	OL3296070W
Offsides	Erik E. Esckilsen	Tom Gray, a Mohawk Indian and star soccer player, moves to a new high school and refuses to play for the Warriors with their insulting mascot.	OL5702128W
The Mohawk	Nancy Bonvillain	Examines the history, culture, and traditions of the Mohawk Indians.	OL59285W
Dark was the wilderness	P. W. O'Grady	I read a book by this name when I was about 12. If this is the same book, it's a fictional account of Isaac Jogues, Jean de Brebeuf, and several other French Jesuits who came as missionaries to the …	OL7688309W
The Oka crisis	John Ciaccia	356 p. ; 22 cm	OL7826970W
Ribbon rescue	Robert N. Munsch,Eugenie Fernandes,Robert Munsch	A young girl unselfishly gives away the ribbons from her new dress to help various people on their way to a wedding. The girl in the story is identified as wearing a traditional Mohawk ribbon dress.	OL88688W
Lake in the Clouds	Sara Donati	In her extraordinary novels Into the Wilderness and Dawn on a Distant Shore, award-winning writer Sara Donati deftly captured the vast, untamed wilderness of late-eighteenth-century New York and the …	OL92420W
Queen of Swords	Sara Donati	It is the late summer of 1814, and Hannah Bonner and her half brother Luke have spent more than a year searching the islands of the Caribbean for Luke's wife and the man who abducted her. But Jennet'…	OL92425W