Indigenous peoples lived in Connecticut for over 12,000 years before their numbers were decimated by the European conquest that began just four hundred years ago. The area’s streams, rivers, wetlands, forests, fields, and the Sound provided Native peoples with the ample resources they needed for gathering, fishing, hunting, farming, and making tools.
Native tribes that lived in Connecticut include the Pequots, Mohegans, Paugussetts, and Schaghticokes. The names of many places in Connecticut still reflect the presence of Native peoples, including Shetucket, Quinnebaug, Housatonic, Quinnipiac, Noank, Mystic, Hammonassett, and even the name Connecticut. The Paugussetts occupied the Danbury area and there are Paugussett lands located in Colchester, along with a single quarter acre in Trumbull.
The Paugassetts ("where the narrows open out") occupied Fairfield, Litchfield and parts of New Haven Counties. They were made up of five tribes: Paugussett Proper, Paugussett Minor, Pequannock, Pootatuck and Weantinock. They were mainly a farming and fishing community and they were part of the wampum trade - a form of currency used by the more politically and socially sophisticated tribes. In Connecticut, the Mohegans, Pequots, and Narragansetts also used wampum as currency. (Wampum was the purple and white shiny core found in hard shell clams along the North Atlantic coast.) The Paugussetts spoke an Iroquoian dialect and they governed in the Algonquian way, which is the framework that embodies how a tribe is governed.
Today there are six tribal lands in Connecticut representing five tribes. They include:
Take a moment to engage with the vibrant culture of the country's indigenous peoples and to learn about the destruction of the indigenous people who called Connecticut and the rest of the United States their home for thousands of centuries. There are museums located very nearby to visit, documentaries and feature films to watch, podcasts to listen to, and e-books and print books to read. (The print books are on display on the first floor of the Haas Library opposite where Einstein's cafe used to be. They are available to check out.)
“Early History.” Connecticut’s Official State Website, CT.Gov, 2024, https://portal.ct.gov/about/early-history. Accessed October 23, 2024.
This map identifies the Native American Sachemdoms of 1625 in and around the state of Connecticut. A Sachemdom is the territory of a Sachem, and a Sachem is the title of the leader of a Native American Tribe. The map also shows the primary trade routes used by the Natives at the time, many of which turned into the roads and highways used today.
Before their massacre by Massachusetts Puritans in 1637, the Pequots were preeminent in southern New England. Their location on the eastern Connecticut shore made them important producers of the wampum required to trade for furs from the Iroquois. They were also the only Connecticut Indians to oppose the land-hungry English. For those reasons, they became the first victims of white genocide in colonial America.
This pioneering book is the first to provide a full account of Connecticut’s indigenous peoples, from the long-ago days of their arrival to the present day.
A History of Connecticut's Golden Hill Paugussett Tribe vividly recounts the long lost history of southwestern Connecticut's Paugussett tribe.
In the first biography of Ninigret, Julie A. Fisher and David J. Silverman assert that he was the most influential Indian leader of his era in southern New England.
The true story of the oldest and smallest Indian reservation in the country, told in the words of Chief Big Eagle of the Golden Hill Tribe, Paugussett Nation. The Chief tells of his legal struggle to save the token parcel of land that is all that remains of the original Paugussett reservation.
This book brings together the best-known works of the nineteenth-century Pequot writer William Apess, including the first extended autobiography by a Native American.
In casinos all over the country, Native Americans are making money and reclaiming power. But the games are by no means confined to the tables, as the Mashantucket Pequots can attest. Although Anglo-Americans have attempted to undermine Pequot sovereignty for centuries, these Native Americans have developed a strategy of survival in order to maintain their sense of peoplehood--a resiliency that has vexed outsiders, from English settlers to Donald Trump. The Pequots have found success at their southeastern Connecticut casino in spite of the odds.
Joseph Johnson's essays and writings, written between 1771 and 1773, document daily life in the Indian Christian communities of Mohegan and Farmington, Connecticut. Commentary by Laura J. Murray illuminates the meaning of Johnson's writings in their historical context.
Medicine Trail tells of the Mohegans' survival into this century. Blending autobiography and history, with traditional knowledge and ways of life, Medicine Trail presents a collage of events in Tantaquidgeon's life. Written in the Mohegan oral tradition, this book offers a unique insider's understanding of Mohegan and other Native American cultures while discussing the major policies and trends that have affected people throughout Indian Country in the twentieth century.
Details the day-to-day experiences of Indian youth living in a "total institution" designed to reconstruct them both psychologically and culturally.
The Middle Five, first published in 1900, is an account of Francis La Flesche's life as a student in a Presbyterian mission school in northeastern Nebraska about the time of the Civil War. It is a simple, affecting tale of young Indian boys midway between two cultures, reluctant to abandon the ways of their fathers, and puzzled and uncomfortable in their new roles of "make-believe white men."
The life story of Ishi, the Yahi Indian, lone survivor of a doomed tribe, is unique in the annals of North American anthropology. Ishi stumbled into the twentieth century on the morning of August 29, 1911, when, desperate with hunger and with terror of the white murderers of his family, he was found in the corral of a slaughter house near Oroville, California.
Crazy Horse was as much feared by tribal foes as he was honored by allies. His war record was unmatched by any of his peers, and his rout of Custer at the Little Bighorn reverberates through history. The author reassesses the war chief's achievements in numerous battles and retraces the tragic sequence of misunderstandings, betrayals, and misjudgments that led to his death.
Greene, a historian with the National Park Service, compiles first-hand accounts by Lakota and Northern Cheyenne men and women of the Battle of Little Big Horn. The recollections, many of them published for the first time, provide personal, individualistic descriptions of significant events..
Frank Fools Crow, a spiritual and civic leader of the Teton Sioux, spent nearly a century helping those of every race. The holy man talks about his eventful life starting with early reservation days. He also recounts his travels abroad with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, his movie work, and his tribal leadership. He lived long enough to mediate between the U.S. government and Indian activists at Wounded Knee in 1973 and to plead before a congressional subcommittee for the return of the Black Hills to his people.
Sitting Bull's life spanned the entire clash of cultures and ultimate destruction of the Plains Indian way of life. While Sitting Bull was the leading figure of Plains Indian resistance, his message was of self-reliance, not violence. At the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull was not confronting Custer as popular myth would have it, but riding through the Lakota camp making sure the most defenseless of his tribe--the children--were safe.
Drawing on firsthand research and his culture's rich oral tradition, the author, himself a member of the Lakota Tribe, reveals many aspects of Crazy Horse's life, including details of the powerful vision that convinced him of his duty to help preserve the Lakota homeland: a vision that spurred him confidently into battle time and time again.The Journey of Crazy Horse is the true story of how one man's fight for his people's survival roused his true genius as a strategist, commander, and trusted leader.
Treuer melds history with reportage and memoir. Tracing the tribes' distinctive cultures from first contact, he explores how the depredations of each era spawned new modes of survival.
A survey of changing government policy with a discussion of response and accommodation by the Kiowa people.
Fully documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. Using council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions, Brown allows the great chiefs and warriors of the Dakota, Ute, Sioux, Cheyenne, and other tribes to tell us in their own words of the battles, massacres, and broken treaties that finally left them demoralized and defeated.
In the Massachusetts town of Turners Falls, an attempt is made by the town to expand the runway to its airport. However, the plan requires the removal of a low hill that contains an important ritual site - a ceremonial stone landscape - important to a Native tribe. On DVD.
Comanche were so masterful at war and so skillful with their arrows and lances that they stopped the northern drive of colonial Spain from Mexico and halted the French expansion westward from Louisiana. Gwynne delivers a sweeping narrative that encompasses Spanish colonialism, the Civil War, the destruction of the buffalo herds, the arrival of the railroads, and the amazing story of Cynthia Ann Parker and her son Quanah--a historical feast for anyone interested in how the United States came into being.
The author provides an Indian point of view about U.S. race relations, federal bureaucracies, Christian churches, and social scientists.
Explores the politics of music at the turn of the twentieth century in three spheres: reservations, off-reservation boarding schools, and public venues such as concert halls and Chautauqua circuits.
Going Native shows how even seemingly harmless images of Native Americans can articulate and reinforce a range of power relations including slavery, patriarchy, and the continued oppression of Native Americans. Huhndorf reconsiders the cultural importance and political implications of the history of the impersonation of Indian identity in light of continuing debates over race, gender, and colonialism in American culture.
Tracing the history of U.S. Indian policy from the eighteenth century to the present, this book explores how the Euro-American ethos of Manifest Destiny fueled a devastating campaign of ethnic cleansing against Native Americans. After decimating the Indian population through organized massacres, the U.S. government forcibly removed the survivors from their homelands to live on reservations.
This Land is a lively and accessible introduction to issues of traditional cultural properties and cultural resource management among native peoples in the United States. Carmean shows how specific geographical locations contain significant cultural and religious meaning to the Navajo people. Carmean demonstrates that cultural value of the sacred geography can be in direct opposition to the need to modernize, including building roads, power lines, housing, and a variety of natural resource extraction activities that can earn much-needed money for the tribe.
I Am the Grand Canyon is the story of the Havasupai people. From their origins among the first group of Indians to arrive in North America thousands of years ago to their epic struggle to regain traditional lands taken from them in the nineteenth century, the Havasupai have a long and colorful history. I Am the Grand Canyon is the story of a heroic people who refused to back down when facing overwhelming odds.
Author Marc Shell illuminates the context in which wampum was used by describing how money circulated in the colonial period and the early history of the United States. Wampum itself, generally tubular beads made from clam or conch shells, represented to both Native Americans and colonial Europeans a unique medium through which language, art, culture, and even conflict were negotiated.
Despite the Cherokees' efforts to assimilate with the dominant white culture--running their own newspaper, ratifying a constitution based on that of the United States--they were never able to integrate fully with white men in this New World. The book provides an eye-opening view of why neither assimilation nor Cherokee independence could succeed in Jacksonian America.
Respected scholar Colin G. Calloway provides a solid foundation grounded in timely scholarship and a narrative that brings a largely untold history to life. The signature “docutext” format of First Peoples strikes the ideal balance, combining in every chapter a compelling narrative and rich written and visual documents from Native and non-Native voices alike.
In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma because of oil discovered on their lands. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. More and more Osage were dying under mysterious circumstances, and many of those who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered. As the death toll rose, the newly created FBI took up the case.,
The Round House won the National Book Award for fiction. One of the most revered novelists of our time--a brilliant chronicler of Native-American life, Louise Erdrich - transports readers to the Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota.
The author of Fool's Crow and Indian Lawyer presents an extraordinary, evocative novel about a young Native American coming to terms with his heritage--and his dreams.
Set in nineteenth-century America against the background of a vanishing people and a rich way of life, at the age of twelve, Will is given a horse, a key, and a map, and sent alone into the Indian Nation to run a trading post as a bound boy. As Will's destiny intertwines with the fate of the Cherokee Indians--including a Cherokee Chief named Bear--he learns how to fight and survive in the face of both nature and men, to preserve the Cherokee's homeland and culture.
A writer of power and effortless grace, Louise Erdrich brings the people, cultures, and simple rugged beauty of North Dakota vividly to life. This cherished series, currently including Love Medicine, The Bingo Palace, The Beet Queen, and Tracks, reflects shared landscapes, themes, and unforgettable characters.
The first book in Erdrich's Native American tetralogy that includes The Beet Queen, Tracks, and The Bingo Palace is an authentic and emotionally powerful glimpse into the Native American experience--now resequenced and expanded to include never-before-published chapters.
In this darkly comic short story collection, Sherman Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation. Against a backdrop of alcohol, car accidents, laughter, and basketball, Alexie depicts the distances between Indians and whites, reservation Indians and urban Indians, men and women, and mostly poetically between modern Indians and the traditions of the past.
Three plays that depict the problems of American Indians today.
The Plague of Doves is a gripping novel about a long-unsolved crime in a small North Dakota town and how, years later, the consequences are still being felt by the community and a nearby Native American reservation. Though generations have passed, the town of Pluto continues to be haunted by the murder of a farm family.
Sherman Alexie is one of our most acclaimed and popular writers today. With Ten Little Indians, he offers nine poignant and emotionally resonant new stories about Native Americans who, like all Americans, find themselves at personal and cultural crossroads, faced with heartrending, tragic, sometimes wondrous moments of being that test their loyalties, their capacities, and their notions of who they are and who they love.
A collection of short stories includes the title story, in which a famous writer, who just learned he may have a brain tumor, must decide how to care for his distant, American Indian father who is slowly dying. WINNER OF THE 2010 PEN/Faulkner AWARD FOR FICTION
The events of one summer in Montana forever alter David Hayden's view of his family: his self-effacing father, a sheriff who never wears his badge; his clear sighted mother; his uncle, a charming war hero and respected doctor; and the Hayden's lively, statuesque Sioux housekeeper, Marie Little Soldier, whose revelations are at the heart of the story.
The year is 1870. Located in the Two Medicine Territory of northwestern Montana is the camp of the Lone Eaters, a small band of Blackfeet Indians. Fools Crow, a young warrior and medicine man of great vision, has seen the future. He knows his tribe must either fight a brave but futile war or surrender their lands and their way of life.
After a poor harvest two children regain the Corn Maidens' blessings for their people with the aid of a cornstalk toy, the dragonfly.
More than twenty Native American tales are adapted into comic form. Each story is written by a different Native American storyteller who worked closely with a selected illustrator, a combination that gives each tale a unique and powerful voice and look.
Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.
Firekeeper's Daughter is a groundbreaking YA thriller about a Native teen who must root out the corruption in her community, perfect for readers of Angie Thomas and Tommy Orange. Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of a fresh start at college, but when family tragedy strikes, Daunis puts her future on hold to look after her fragile mother.
It is spring of 1877 when fourteen-year-old Sound of Running Feet, daughter of Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce, sees white people panning gold in the little creek that feeds the Wallowa River, and brings word of them to her father. "They are the first, but more are on the way," he says. "We are few and they are many. They will devour us." It is Sound of Running Feet who narrates the story of her tribe's fate.
Uses drama to tell seven different stories from Native American traditions including the Abenaki, Ojibway, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Snohomish, Tlingit, & Zuni.
For the Navajo people, the new year begins in October, when summer meets winter. The Navajo Year, Walk Through Many Seasons follows the Navajo calendar, and provides poetic descriptions of the many sights, sounds, and activities associated with each month.
The heroic story of the Oglala Warrior who triumphed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. An ALA Notable Book and a Best Book for Young Adults. Illus. by Amos Bad Heart Bull.
First People tells the story of Native Americans--from their arrival on the continent 10,000 years ago to their search for identity in the modern world. The book presents each tribe as an individual, evolving culture, with its own history, artwork, and traditions. It is an eye-opening look at the richness and variety of North American tribes, and a moving account of the European conquest.
The collection of photographs in this outstanding reference celebrates native peoples' artistry genius. Many of the 300 photographs from more than 60 leading museums and private collections have never been published previously. Theodore Brasser explains who made what and how, as well as the meanings of the different kinds of decoration, such as beadwork, embroidery, appliqué, patchwork, weaving and dyeing.
This lushly illustrated book examines the cross-cultural influences and unique artistic dialogue between Hispano and Native American arts in the Southwest over the past 400 years since Spanish colonization. Over 150 art works and photographs gathered from museums across the country are testimony to the unique Southwestern aesthetic that developed from this dynamic cultural exchange.
This book examines in detail how Native American culture evolved and considers the regional similarities and differences of the arts and crafts created by tribes across the continent. A major section on the living structures -- huts, tipis, igloos, etc. -- is followed by an analysis of individual crafts. These include baskets, decorative arts, featherwork, beading, quill work, metal work, pottery and jewelry among others.
From ancient Valdivian figurines and vessels dating back to 3500 BC to Incan and Aztec objects created just before the Spanish conquistadors landed, this is a story of discovery that stretches from southern Peru to northern Mexico, and is still ongoing. The beautifully photographed pieces reveal the artists' mastery over their materials, as well as their workmanship and conceptual creativity.
Native American Art brings together anthropologists, art historians, curators, critics and distinguished Native artists to discuss pottery, painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography and performance art by some of the most celebrated Native American and Canadian First Nation artists of our time. The artist contributors, who represent several Native nations - including Cherokee, Lakota, Plains Cree, and those of the Plateau country - emphasize the importance of traditional stories, mythologies and ceremonies in the production of contemporary art.
By encompassing both the sacred and secular, political and domestic, the ceremonial and commercial, it shows the importance of the visual arts in maintaining the integrity of spiritual, social, political, and economic systems. The richness of Native American art is emphasized through discussions of basketry, wood and rock carvings, dance masks, and beadwork, alongside the contemporary vitality of paintings and installations by modern artists.
The title of this lively collection of Jace Weaver's essays comes from Felix Cohen, the great authority on American Indian law: "The Indian plays much the same role in our American society that the Jews played in Germany."
Historical account of the despotism against Native American culture: the altercations of sovereignty, territory, and pluralistic democracy are analyzed in an effort to provide a path towards justice.
Frank Fools Crow, a spiritual and civic leader of the Teton Sioux, spent nearly a century helping those of every race. He lived long enough to mediate between the U.S. government and Indian activists at Wounded Knee in 1973 and to plead before a congressional subcommittee for the return of the Black Hills to his people.
This magnificent, sweeping work traces the histories of the Native peoples of the American West from their arrival thousands of years ago to the early years of the nineteenth century. Emphasizing conflict and change, offers a new look at the early history of the region by blending ethnohistory, colonial history, and frontier history.
Most people do not know that for 5000 years, until as recently as the 18th century, the Ohio and Mississippi valleys were home to well organized, highly advanced civilizations. American Indians built huge geometrical structures to precisely related dimensions across distances of hundreds of miles.
It is believed that Native Americans have a high frequency of criminal behavior and in addition are subjected to great discrimination by the criminal justice system, as are other minority groups. This book explores the data and research that has been conducted on criminal behavior in Native Americans in order to see whether these beliefs are indeed valid.
This is the first book-length study to use Spanish language sources in documenting the original Indian inhabitants of West Florida who, from the late 16th century to the 1740s, lived to the west and the north of the Apalachee.
Native people have hunted bison and bighorn sheep, fished for cutthroat trout, and gathered bitterroot and camas bulbs in Yellowstone for at least 11,000 years, and twenty-six tribes claim cultural association with Yellowstone today. The author tells the story of these early people as revealed by archaeological research into nearly 2,000 sites. From Clovis points associated with mammoth hunting to stone circles marking the sites of tipi lodges, Before Yellowstone brings to life a fascinating story of human engagement with this stunning landscape.
This is an extensively researched book on Native American accomplishments. Topics covered include Native American contributions to the performing arts, literature, art, history, sports, politics, education, military service, environmental issues, and many other areas. This book also features lists of Native languages, stereotypes, and myths. In addition, the authors provide a range of resources, links, and websites for readers to learn even more about each topic.
From the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's resistance against the Dakota Access pipeline to the Nepalese Newar community's protest of the Fast Track Road Project, Indigenous peoples around the world are standing up and speaking out against global capitalism to protect the land, water, and air.
Of Sacred Lands and Strip Malls examines the acrimonious and costly conflict over control of Puvungna-land owned by California but sacred to several Native American tribes-and explores ongoing reverberations from the academic, political, and legal battles.
Essays on Traditional Knowledge, Indigenous Responsibility, and how Indigenous people, governments, and NGOs are responding to the environmental degradation which threatens the Great Lakes.
The Global Ascendency of Social Media Activism illustrates the impact of social media in expanding the nature of Indigenous communities and social movements. Social media has bridged distance, time, and nation states to mobilize Indigenous peoples to build coalitions across the globe and to stand in solidarity with one another.
Presents a holistic and practical approach to explaining the practice of Native American planning. The book unveils the complex conditions that tribes face by examining the historic, political, legal, and theoretical dimensions of the tribal planning situation in order to elucidate the context within which reservation planning occurs.
The Killing of Chief Crazy Horse is a story of envy, greed, and treachery. In the year after the Battle of the Little Big Horn, the great Oglala Sioux chief Crazy Horse and his half-starved followers finally surrendered to the U.S. Army near Camp Robinson, Nebraska. Three eyewitness accounts combine to give The Killing of Chief Crazy Horse all the starkness and horror of classical tragedy.
Cross-Cultural Collaboration is an anthology of essays on Native American involvement in archaeology in the northeastern United States and on the changing relationship between archaeologists and tribes in the region.
This long-overdue biography of Dewey Beard (ca. 1862-1955), a Lakota who witnessed the Battle of Little Bighorn and survived the Wounded Knee Massacre, chronicles a remarkable life that can be traced through major historical events from the late nineteenth into the mid-twentieth century. Beard was not only a witness to two major events involving the Lakota.
Katrine Barber examines the negotiations and controversies that took place during the planning and construction of the dam and the profound impact the project had on both the Indian community of Celilo Village and the non-Indian town of The Dalles, intertwined with local concerns that affected the entire American West: treaty rights, federal Indian policy, environmental transformation of rivers, and the idea of "progress."
Feast your way through the seasons with dozens of kitchen-tested recipes served at Native American festivals.
Essays address Indigenous boarding school systems imposed by both the Canadian and U.S. governments in attempts to "civilize" or "assimilate" Indigenous children. Contributors also examine some of the most egregious assaults on Indigenous peoples and the natural environment, including massacres, land appropriation, the spread of disease, the near-extinction of the buffalo, and forced political restructuring of Indigenous communities.
He was the greatest Indian warrior of the nineteenth century. His victory over General Custer at the battle of Little Bighorn in 1876 was the worst defeat inflicted on the frontier Army. And the death of Crazy Horse in federal custody has remained a controversy for more than a century. The Killing of Crazy Horse pieces together the many sources of fear and misunderstanding that resulted in an official killing hard to distinguish from a crime. A rich cast of characters, whites and Indians alike, passes through this story.
The story of the Thomas Indian School is the story of the Iroquois people and the suffering and despair of the children who found themselves trapped in an institution from which there was little chance for escape.
Comprehensive history of Native peoples education in the United States from colonial times to the present. This up-to-date survey is the first one-volume source for those interested in educational reform policies and missionary and government efforts to Christianize and “civilize” the children of Native peoples.
Comparative analysis of Indigenous boarding schools in the United States and Canada. Because of differing historical, political, and structural influences, the two countries have arrived at two very different responses to the harms caused by assimilative education
Assimilation's Agent reveals the life and opinions of Edwin L. Chalcraft (1855-1943), a superintendent in the federal Indian boarding schools during the critical period of forced assimilation in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It offers a rarely heard "top-down" view of government policies to educate and assimilate Native peoples.
An award-winning and bestselling novel that follows twelve characters from Native communities all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they don't realize.
When his father killed another brave, Thomas Black Bull and his parents sought refuge in the wilderness. There they took up life as it had been in the old days, hunting and fishing, battling for survival. But an accident claimed the father's life and the grieving mother died shortly afterward. Left alone, the young Indian boy vowed never to retum to the white man's world, to the alien laws that had condemned his father.
Night of the Living Rez is a riveting debut collection about what it means to be Penobscot in the twenty-first century and what it means to live, to survive, and to persevere after tragedy. In twelve striking, luminescent stories, author Morgan Talty--with searing humor, abiding compassion, and deep insight--breathes life into tales of family and a community as they struggle with a painful past and an uncertain future.
Proulx tells the stories of the descendants of Sel and Duquet over three hundred years--their travels across North America, to Europe, China, and New Zealand, under stunningly brutal conditions. Over and over again, they seize what they can of a presumed infinite resource (forests), leaving the modern-day characters face to face with possible ecological collapse.
These wholly original and shiver-inducing tales introduce readers to ghosts, curses, hauntings, monstrous creatures, complex family legacies, desperate deeds, and chilling acts of revenge. These stories celebrate Indigenous peoples' survival and imagination, and a glorious reveling in everything an ill-advised whistle might summon.
All Noemi Broussard wanted was a fresh start. With a new boyfriend who actually treats her right and a plan to move from the reservation she grew up on - just like her beloved Uncle Louie before her - things are finally looking up for Noemi. Until the news of her boyfriend's apparent suicide brings her world crumbling down. But the facts about Roddy's death just don't add up, and Noemi isn't the only one who suspects that something menacing might be lurking within their tribal lands.
A magical middle grade debut about the origin story of the Iñupiaq Messenger Feast, a Native Arctic tradition. With beautifully hand-drawn full color art throughout. As his family prepares for winter, a young, skilled hunter must travel up the mountain to collect obsidian for knapping--the same mountain where his two older brothers died. When he reaches the mountaintop, he is immediately confronted by a terrifying eagle god named Savik. Savik gives the boy a choice: follow me or die like your brothers.
Picture Book. Told in verse with vibrant illustrations of a modern Native family.
The first people of our continent knew everything about their natural environment, the seasons, and what grew best. Their great respect for the land formed their growing, hunting, and rituals around food. Learn how to make fry-bread and pumpkin-corn sauce while learning about the sacredness of corn.
As Sal entertains her grandparents with Phoebe's outrageous story, her own story begins to unfold -- the story of a thirteen-year-old girl whose only wish is to be reunited with her missing mother. In her own award-winning style, Sharon Creech intricately weaves together two tales, one funny, one bittersweet, to create a heartwarming, compelling, and utterly moving story of love, loss, and the complexity of human emotion.
