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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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“Haunted and haunting. . . . With fearlessness and humility, in a narrative that flows more artfully than ever between destruction and rebirth, Erdrich has opened herself to possibilities beyond what we merely see—to the dead alive and busy, to the breath of trees and the souls of wolves—and inspires readers to open their hearts to these mysteries as well.”— Washington Post Book World
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Novelist David Treuer examines Native American reservation life--past and present--illuminating misunderstood contemporary issues of sovereignty, treaty rights, and natural-resource conservation while also exploring crime and poverty, casinos and wealth, and the preservation of native language and culture.
4) The lovebird
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Harboring sympathy for helpless creatures, Margie falls in love with her charismatic but troubled Latin professor and joins a group of animal-rights activists whose activities force her to take refuge on the Crow Indian Reservation in Montana.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
When his mother, a tribal enrollment specialist living on a reservation in North Dakota, slips into an abyss of depression after being brutally attacked, 14-year-old Joe Coutz sets out with his three friends to find the person that destroyed his family.
6) Super Chief
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
his documentary is about a campaign and election for a new tribal chairman of the White Earth Ojibwe Reservation.By 1996, millions of dollars that had come through the new casino on the White Earth Reservation seemed to stop at the tribal chairman's desk. The self-proclaimed "Super Chief", Darryl "Chip" Wadnea had been tribal chairman for the past 20 years.
7) Indian pipes
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Series
Language
English
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Victoria Trumbull, ninety-two-year-old native of Martha's Vineyard, is savoring the sea air over Vineyard Sound with her granddaughter, Elizabeth, when she spots a person who seems in trouble near the top of the cliff. Elizabeth goes for help, but it's too late—the man dies before he can be rescued. The man had been hired as a consultant to see whether a site's soil could support a sewage system for a possible casino. The police call it an accident,...
10) Wind River
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
An FBI agent teams with a town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.
12) Pisces rising
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Psychic detective Elizabeth Chase, reluctant to return to detective work after seeing her fiance gunned down, is drawn back into action when an old friend calls her to investigate the scalping of a Native American casino owner.
13) The reservations
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
History of how Native Americans were divested of their lands by white settlers and their ongoing resistance to being forced into the white man's mold of civilization.
Author
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
After her father's death, private investigator Sharon McCone finds her own adoption papers among his things. Her search for the truth takes her to the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana, where she unearths old hatreds and present-day violence.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
After centuries of struggle, the Indians of North America own less than 2% of the land settled by their ancestors. Indian Self-Rule traces the history of white-Indian relations from nineteenth century treaties through the present, as tribal leaders, historians, teachers, and other Indians gather at a 1983 conference organized to reevaluate the significance of the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934. The experiences of the Flathead Nation of Montana,...
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