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1) Birdsong
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Pub. Date | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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2020. | Greystone Kids, Greystone Books | 50 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm | English |
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When a young girl moves from the country to a small town, she feels lonely and out of place. But soon she meets an elderly woman next door, who shares her love of nature and art. As the seasons change, can the girl navigate the failing health of her new friend? Acclaimed author and artist Julie Flett's textured images of birds, flowers, art, and landscapes bring vibrancy and warmth to this powerful story, which highlights the fulfillment of intergenerational...
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Donelson - Kids World Language
E Child
Hermitage - Kids World Language
E Child
Main Library - Kids World Language
E Child
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[2018] | Minnesota Historical Society Press | 32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm | Ojibwa | On Shelf
Donelson - Kids World Language E Child Hermitage - Kids World Language E Child Main Library - Kids World Language E Child |
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"When Uncle and Windy Girl attend a powwow, Windy watches the dancers and listens to the singers. She eats tasty food and joins family and friends around the campfire. Later, Windy falls asleep under the stars. Uncle's stories inspire visions in her head: a bowwow powwow, where all the dancers are dogs. In these magical scenes, Windy sees veterans in a Grand Entry, and a visiting drum group, and traditional dancers, grass dancers, and jingle-dress...
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Green Hills - Kids Non-Fiction
j978.4 N431b
Old Hickory - Kids Non-Fiction
j978.4 N431b
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2012 | Abrams Books for Young Readers | 47 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 26 cm. | English | On Shelf
Green Hills - Kids Non-Fiction j978.4 N431b Old Hickory - Kids Non-Fiction j978.4 N431b |
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Traces the childhood, friendships and dangers experienced by Buffalo Bird Woman, a Hidatsa Indian born in 1839, whose community along the Missouri River in the Dakotas transitioned from hunting to agriculture.
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Hermitage - Kids Easy
E Campbel
Main Library - Kids Easy
E Campbel
Southeast - Kids Easy
E Campbel
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[2018] | Crocodile Books, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group | 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm | English | On Shelf
Hermitage - Kids Easy E Campbel Main Library - Kids Easy E Campbel Southeast - Kids Easy E Campbel |
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On an outing in Nicola Valley, British Columbia, a Native American family forages for herbs and mushrooms while the grandmother passes down her language and knowledge to her young grandchildren. Includes glossary.
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[2014] | Kar-Ben Publishing | 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, 29 cm. | English | On Shelf
Main Library - Kids Easy E Hyde Richland Park - Kids Easy E Hyde |
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In 1898, just after his Bar Mitzvah, thirteen-year-old Elan and his family travel to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he meets his mother's family and participates in the Pueblo ceremony of becoming a man.
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[2018] | Charlesbridge | 1 volume, unpaged : color illustrations ; 23 x 25 cm | English | On Shelf
Bellevue - Kids Easy E Tahe Green Hills - Kids Easy E Tahe |
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A Navaho family welcomes a new baby into the family with love and ceremony, eagerly waiting for that first special laugh. Includes brief description of birth customs in different cultures.
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Bellevue - Kids Non-Fiction
j970.00497 K519g
Inglewood - Kids Non-Fiction
j970.00497 K519g
Madison - Kids Non-Fiction
j970.00497 K519g
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[2018] | Tundra Books | 40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 x 30 cm | English | On Shelf
Bellevue - Kids Non-Fiction j970.00497 K519g Inglewood - Kids Non-Fiction j970.00497 K519g Madison - Kids Non-Fiction j970.00497 K519g |
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Using rhyming lyrics from a previously written rap song, Midewin author, Manitoba politician, and creator Kinew tells the stories of diverse Indigenous heroes both historical and contemporary from the U.S. and Canada.
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Goodlettsville - Kids Easy
E Campbel
Hermitage - Kids Easy
E Campbel
Main Library - Kids Easy
E Campbel
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©2011 | House of Anansi Press/Groundwood Books | 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm | English | On Shelf
Goodlettsville - Kids Easy E Campbel Hermitage - Kids Easy E Campbel Main Library - Kids Easy E Campbel |
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The little girl in this story loves to visit Grandpa's farm where she and her cousins run through the fields, swing out the bar loft window and feed crab apples to the Appaloosa in the corral. They explore the root cellar and tiptoe into Grandpa's secret room to look at memories from the past.
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Hermitage - Kids Non-Fiction
j974.0049734 B8878h
Main Library - Kids Non-Fiction
j974.0049734 B8878h
Southeast - Kids Non-Fiction
j974.0049734 B8878h
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[2015] | Wisdom Tales | 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm. | English | On Shelf
Hermitage - Kids Non-Fiction j974.0049734 B8878h Main Library - Kids Non-Fiction j974.0049734 B8878h Southeast - Kids Non-Fiction j974.0049734 B8878h |
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Bellevue - Kids Easy
E Sammurt
Edmondson Pike - Kids Easy
E Sammurt
Green Hills - Kids Easy
E Sammurt
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[2019] | Inhabit Media Inc | 21 pages : colour illustrations ; 24 cm | English | On Shelf
Bellevue - Kids Easy E Sammurt Edmondson Pike - Kids Easy E Sammurt Green Hills - Kids Easy E Sammurt |
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"Nadia Sammurtok lovingly invites the reader into the amautik--the pouch in the back of a mother's parka used to carry a child--to experience everything through the eyes of the baby nestled inside, from the cloudlike softness of the pouch to the glistening sound of Anaana's laughter."--
11) Jingle dancer
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2000 | Morrow Junior Books | 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm. | English | On Shelf
Main Library - Kids Easy E Smith |
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Jenna, a member of the Muscogee, or Creek, Nation, borrows jingles from the dresses of several friends and relatives so that she can perform the jingle dance at the powwow. Includes a note about the jingle dance tradition and its regalia.
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Online OverDrive Collection
Pub. Date | Source | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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2021 | OverDrive | Groundwood Books Ltd | English | Available Online
Online OverDrive Collection |
Available Online
Online OverDrive Collection
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2021 | Groundwood Books Ltd | English | Available Online
Online OverDrive Collection |
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An Anishinaabe child and her grandmother explore the natural wonders of each season in this lyrical, bilingual story-poem.
In this lyrical story-poem, written in Anishinaabemowin and English, a child and grandmother explore their surroundings, taking pleasure in the familiar sights that each new season brings.
We accompany them through warm summer days full of wildflowers, bees and blueberries, then fall, when bears
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Edmondson Pike - Kids World Language
E Luby
Green Hills - Kids World Language
E Luby
Madison - Kids World Language
E Luby
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2021. | Groundwood Books | 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 24 cm | Ojibwa | On Shelf
Edmondson Pike - Kids World Language E Luby Green Hills - Kids World Language E Luby Madison - Kids World Language E Luby |
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"In this lyrical story-poem, written in Anishinaabemowin and English, a child and grandmother explore their surroundings, taking pleasure in the familiar sights that each new season brings. We accompany them through warm summer days full of wildflowers, bees and blueberries, then fall, when bears feast before hibernation and forest mushrooms are ripe for harvest. Winter mornings begin in darkness as deer, mice and other animals search for food, while...
14) Mission to space
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Edmondson Pike - Kids Non-Fiction
j629.45 H5676m
Hermitage - Kids Non-Fiction
j629.45 H5676m
Main Library - Kids Non-Fiction
j629.45 H5676m
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[2016] | White Dog Press | 1 unpaged volume : color illustrations ; 22 x 27 cm | English | On Shelf
Edmondson Pike - Kids Non-Fiction j629.45 H5676m Hermitage - Kids Non-Fiction j629.45 H5676m Main Library - Kids Non-Fiction j629.45 H5676m |
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Go on a Mission to Space with Chickasaw astronaut John Herrington, as he shares his flight on the space shuttle Endeavour and his thirteen-day mission to the international Space Station. Learn what it takes to train for space flight, see the tasks he completed in space, and join him on his spacewalk 220 miles above the earth.
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The sun on your face. The smell of warm bannock baking in the oven. Holding the hand of someone you love. What fills your heart with happiness? This beautiful board book, with illustrations from celebrated artist Julie Flett, serves as a reminder for little ones and adults alike to reflect on and cherish the moments in life that bring us joy.
International speaker and award-winning author Monique Gray Smith wrote My Heart Fills with Happiness...
International speaker and award-winning author Monique Gray Smith wrote My Heart Fills with Happiness...
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[2017] | HighWater Press | 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 19 x 24 cm | English | On Shelf
Hermitage - Kids Easy E Thomas Southeast - Kids Easy E Thomas |
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"Nimoshom drives the kids in the community to school every morning. On the way, he always has something to say to them. Nimoshom and His Bus introduces basic Cree words."--
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Green Hills - Kids Biography
jB R6519r
Madison - Kids Biography
jB R6519r
Main Library - Kids Biography
jB R6519r
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2014. | First edition. | Henry Holt and Company | 1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm. | English | On Shelf
Green Hills - Kids Biography jB R6519r Madison - Kids Biography jB R6519r Main Library - Kids Biography jB R6519r |
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"Canadian guitarist and songwriter Robbie Robertson is known mainly for his central role in the musical group the Band. But how did he become one of Rolling Stone's top 100 guitarists of all time? Written by his son Sebastian, this is the story of a rock-and-roll legend's journey through music, beginning when he was taught to play guitar at nine years old on a Native American reservation"--Amazon.com.
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Edmondson Pike - Kids Biography
jB J949a
Green Hills - Kids Biography
jB J949a
Hermitage - Kids Biography
jB J949a
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c2010 | National Geographic | 33, [7] p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 23 x 28 cm. | English | On Shelf
Edmondson Pike - Kids Biography jB J949a Green Hills - Kids Biography jB J949a Hermitage - Kids Biography jB J949a |
19) Shi-shi-etko
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Inglewood - Kids Easy
E Campbel
Main Library - Kids Easy
E Campbel
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©2005 | Groundwood Books | 30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 21 x 22 cm. | English | On Shelf
Inglewood - Kids Easy E Campbel Main Library - Kids Easy E Campbel |
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Shi-shi-etko, a Native American girl, spends the last four days before she goes to residential school learning valuable lessons from her mother, father, and grandmother, and creating precious memories of home.
20) Sweetest Kulu
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[2014] | Inhabit Media Inc | 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 x 27 cm. | English |
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"This beautiful bedtime poem, written by acclaimed Inuit throat singer Celina Kalluk, describes the gifts given to a newborn baby by all the animals of the Arctic. Lyrically and tenderly told by a mother speaking to her own little "Kulu," an Inuktitut term of endearment often bestowed upon babies and young children, this visually stunning book is infused with the traditional Inuit values of love and respect for the land and its animal inhabitants."--...