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Indian why stories Indian why stories 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. OL116659W
Schoolcraft's Ojibwa lodge stories Schoolcraft's Ojibwa lodge stories Henry Rowe Schoolcraft xxix, 193 p. : 24 cm OL1555014W
From the land of the white birch From the land of the white birch Shirley Neitzel A collection of three Ojibwa legends including The Sun Snarer, Ojeeg's Search for Summer, and Wassamowin and the Thunderbirds. OL15836464W
The Sioux are coming The Sioux are coming Walter O'Meara A Chippewa family's flight from their enemy, the Sioux, presents the son of the family with many opportunities to test his resourcefulness. OL15839893W
Red Wolf Red Wolf Jennifer Dance After he is separated from his family, a five-year-old Ojibwe boy attends a residential school for Canadian Indians. OL17081856W
Grandmother's dreamcatcher Grandmother's dreamcatcher Becky R. McCain While spending a week with her grandmother who, like her is a Chippewa Indian, Kimmy learns to make a dreamcatcher which allows the sleeper to have only sweet dreams. OL1813139W
Trickster and the fainting birds Trickster and the fainting birds Howard A. Norman A collection of seven Cree and Chippewa trickster tales. OL18302684W
The summer maker The summer maker Margery Bernstein An easy-to-read retelling of the Ojibway Indian myth about the creation of summer. OL1839119W
Windigo Island Windigo Island William Kent Krueger When the body of a year-missing Ojibwa girl washes up on a Lake Superior island, rekindling Native American superstitions about mythical monsters, Cork O'Connor struggles to obtain information from r… OL19982040W
Manitou Canyon Manitou Canyon William Kent Krueger ""One of today's automatic buy-today-read-tonight series ... thoughtful but suspenseful, fast but lasting, contemporary but strangely timeless." (Lee Child) In the extraordinary new Cork O'Connor thr… OL20033357W
Crooked river Crooked river Shelley Pearsall The year is 1812. A white trapper is murdered. And a young Chippewa Indian stands accused. Captured and shackled in leg irons and chains, Indian John awaits his trial in a settler's loft. In a world … OL2173392W
How the birds got their colours = How the birds got their colours = Basil Johnston Side-by-side texts in English and Chippewa relate the Chippewa legend of how birds came to have their colors. OL2197524W
The good path The good path Thomas D. Peacock,Marlene Wisuri A history of the Ojibwe culture which focuses on the teachings of the Good Path, nine core values that are the fundamental basis of Ojibwe philosophy. OL23788470W
The white Ojibway medicine man and other stories The white Ojibway medicine man and other stories Joseph Weinstein "When Joe Weinstein first saw the ad for a temporary medical position in northwestern Ontario, he had no idea that one month would stretch into the most intense and challenging seven years of his lif… OL28769624W
Sketches of a tour to the lakes Sketches of a tour to the lakes Thomas Loraine McKenney Thomas Loraine McKenney (1785-1859) was a Quaker who was appointed in 1816 by President Madison in 1816 as the ‘Superintendent of the United States Indian Trade with the Indian Tribes’. He later serv… OL3870200W
The Place of the Pike (Gnoozhekaaning) The Place of the Pike (Gnoozhekaaning) Charles E. Cleland "The Place of the Pike is a unique history of an Indian community told from their own perspective. Drawn from oral accounts of tribal elders, with support from archival data, it is cast not in terms … OL4289008W
Shannon Shannon Sandra King A twelve-year-old Ojibwa Indian living in Minneapolis, Minnesota, learns about her tribe's traditional costumes from her grandmother and gets ready to dance at a powwow. OL4299436W
The Plague of Doves The Plague of Doves Louise Erdrich Louise Erdrich's mesmerizing new novel, her first in almost three years, centers on a compelling mystery. The unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white, off-reservation town of Pluto, … OL479014W
Track Edition Uk Track Edition Uk Louise Erdrich Told in the alternating voices of a wise Chippewa Indian leader, and a young, embittered mixed-blood woman, the novel chronicles the drama of daily lives overshadowed by the clash of cultures and myt… OL479024W
Fredrick L. McGhee Fredrick L. McGhee Paul D. Nelson "In this book of essays, Vizenor presents a stark but vital view of reservation life in the early 1970s, a collection that Studies in American Indian Literatures called "memorable portraits of real p… OL6215908W
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