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October is Native American Heritage Month in the US, so the Uni High Library has curated a collection of some of the books written by and about indigenous folks (primarily focused on communities from what is commonly known as the United States and Canada). All of these books are available in our collection, and their call numbers are noted!<\/p>\n
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Fiction\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n The Marrow Thieves <\/em>by Cherie Dimaline In a futuristic world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dreamlessness has led to widespread madness. The only people still able to dream are North America’s Indigenous people, and it is their marrow that holds the cure for the rest of the world. But getting the marrow, and dreams, means death for the unwilling donors. Driven to flight, a fifteen-year-old and his companions struggle for survival, attempt to reunite with loved ones and take refuge from the “recruiters” who seek them out to bring them to the marrow-stealing “factories.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Round House<\/em> by Louise Erdrich One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface because Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to relive or reveal what happened, either to the police or to her husband, Bazil, and thirteen-year-old son, Joe. In one day, Joe’s life is irrevocably transformed. He tries to heal his mother, but she will not leave her bed and slips into an abyss of solitude. Increasingly alone, Joe finds himself thrust prematurely into an adult world for which he is ill prepared. While his father, a tribal judge, endeavors to wrest justice from a situation that defies his efforts, Joe becomes frustrated with the official investigation and sets out with his trusted friends, Cappy, Zack, and Angus, to get some answers of his own. Their quest takes them first to the Round House, a sacred space and place of worship for the Ojibwe. And this is only the beginning.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n If I Ever Get Out of Here: A Novel with Paintings <\/em>by Eric Gansworth Lewis “Shoe” Blake is used to the joys and difficulties of life on the Tuscarora Indian reservation in 1975: the joking, the Fireball games, the snow blowing through his roof. What he’s not used to is white people being nice to him — people like George Haddonfield, whose family recently moved to town with the Air Force. As the boys connect through their mutual passion for music, especially the Beatles, Lewis has to lie more and more to hide the reality of his family’s poverty from George. He also has to deal with the vicious Evan Reininger, who makes Lewis the special target of his wrath. But when everyone else is on Evan’s side, how can he be defeated? And if George finds out the truth about Lewis’s home — will he still be his friend?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse <\/em>by Joseph Marshall Jimmy McClean is a Lakota boy\u2014though you would not guess it by his name: his father is a white man and his mother is Lakota. When he embarks on a journey with his grandfather, Nyles High Eagle, he learns more and more about his Lakota heritage\u2014in particular, the story of Crazy Horse, one of the most important figures in Lakota history. Drawing inspiration from the oral stories of the Lakota tradition and the Lakota cultural mechanism of the \u201chero story,\u201d Joseph Marshall provides readers with an insider\u2019s perspective on the life of Tasunke Witko, better known as Crazy Horse. Through his grandfather\u2019s tales about the famous warrior, Jimmy learns more about his Lakota heritage and, ultimately, himself.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n There There <\/em>by Tommy Orange Tommy Orange’s wondrous and shattering novel follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to one another in ways they may not yet realize. Among them is Jacquie Red Feather, newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind. Dene Oxendene, pulling his life together after his uncle’s death and working at the powwow to honor his memory. Fourteen-year-old Orvil, coming to perform traditional dance for the very first time. Together, this chorus of voices tells of the plight of the urban Native American–grappling with a complex and painful history, with an inheritance of beauty and spirituality, with communion and sacrifice and heroism. Hailed as an instant classic,\u00a0There There <\/em>is at once poignant and unflinching, utterly contemporary, and truly unforgettable<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Man Made Monsters <\/em>by Andrea L. Rogers; illustrated by Jeff Edwards Making her YA debut, Cherokee writer Andrea L. Rogers takes her place as one of the most striking voices of the horror renaissance that has swept the last decade.<\/p>\n Horror fans will get their thrills in this collection \u2013 from werewolves to vampires to zombies \u2013 all the time-worn horror baddies are there. But so are predators of a distinctly American variety \u2013 the horrors of empire, of intimate partner violence, of dispossession. And so too the monsters of Rogers\u2019 imagination, that draw upon long-told Cherokee stories \u2013 of Deer Woman, fantastical sea creatures, and more.<\/p>\n Following one extended Cherokee family across the centuries, from the tribe\u2019s homelands in Georgia in the 1830s to World War I, the Vietnam War, our own present, and well into the future, each story delivers a slice of a particular time period that will leave readers longing for more.<\/p>\n Alongside each story, Cherokee artist and language technologist Jeff Edwards delivers haunting illustrations that incorporate Cherokee syllabary.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Graphic Novels<\/strong><\/p>\n Borders <\/em>by Thomas King On a trip to visit his older sister, who has moved away from the family home on the reserve to Salt Lake City, a young boy and his mother are posed a simple question with a not-so-simple answer. Are you Canadian, the border guards ask, or American?<\/p>\n \u201cBlackfoot.\u201d<\/p>\n And when border guards will not accept their citizenship, mother and son wind up trapped in an all-too-real limbo between nations that do not recognize who they are.<\/p>\n A powerful graphic-novel adaptation of one of Thomas King\u2019s most celebrated short stories, Borders explores themes of identity and belonging, and is a poignant depiction of the significance of a nation\u2019s physical borders from an Indigenous perspective. This timeless story is brought to vibrant, piercing life by the singular vision of artist Natasha Donovan.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Trickster <\/em>edited by Matt Dembicki Meet the Trickster, a crafty creature or being who disrupts the order of things, often humiliating others and sometimes himself in the process. Whether a coyote or rabbit, raccoon or raven, Tricksters use cunning to get food, steal precious possessions, or simply cause mischief. In Trickster<\/em>, the first graphic anthology of Native American trickster tales, more than twenty Native American tales are cleverly adapted into comic form. An inspired collaboration between Native writers and accomplished artists, these tales bring the Trickster back into popular culture in vivid form. From an ego-driven social misstep in “Coyote and the Pebbles” to the hijinks of “How Wildcat Caught a Turkey” and the hilarity of “Rabbit’s Choctaw Tail Tale,” Trickster bring together Native American folklore and the world of graphic novels for the first time.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n A Girl Called Echo: Pemmican Wars (Vol. 1) <\/em>by Katherena Vermette; illustrated by Scott B. Henderson; colored by Donovan Yaciuk Echo Desjardins, a 13-year-old Me\u0301tis girl adjusting to a new home and school, is struggling with loneliness while separated from her mother. Then, an ordinary day in Mr. Bee’s history class turns extraordinary, and Echo’s life will never be the same. During Mr. Bee’s lecture, Echo finds herself transported to another time and place \u2013 a bison hunt on the Saskatchewan prairie \u2013 and back again to the present. In the following weeks, Echo slips back and forth in time. She visits a Me\u0301tis camp, travels the old fur-trade routes, and experiences the perilous and bygone era of the Pemmican Wars.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n A Girl Called Echo: Red River Resistance (Vol. 2) <\/em>by Katherena Vermette; illustrated by Scott B. Henderson; colored by Donovan Yaciuk Picking up where Pemmican Wars <\/em>left off, Red River Resistance <\/em>see Echo Desjardins adjusting to her new home, making new friends, and learning about Me\u0301tis history. One ordinary afternoon in class, Echo finds herself transported through time to the banks of the Red River in the summer of 1869. All is not well in the territory, as Canadian surveyors have arrived, and Me\u0301tis families, who have lived there for generations, are losing access to their land. As the Resistance takes hold, Echo fears for her friends and the future of her people in the Red River Valley.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Non-fiction\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n An Indigenous People\u2019s History of the United States <\/em>by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples<\/p>\n Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now, for the first time, acclaimed historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire.<\/p>\n With growing support for movements such as the campaign to abolish Columbus Day and replace it with Indigenous Peoples\u2019 Day and the Dakota Access Pipeline protest led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, An Indigenous Peoples\u2019 History of the United States is an essential resource providing historical threads that are crucial for understanding the present. In An Indigenous Peoples\u2019 History of the United States, Dunbar-Ortiz adroitly challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the Indigenous peoples was colonialist and designed to seize the territories of the original inhabitants, displacing or eliminating them. And as Dunbar-Ortiz reveals, this policy was praised in popular culture, through writers like James Fenimore Cooper and Walt Whitman, and in the highest offices of government and the military. Shockingly, as the genocidal policy reached its zenith under President Andrew Jackson, its ruthlessness was best articulated by US Army general Thomas S. Jesup, who, in 1836, wrote of the Seminoles: \u201cThe country can be rid of them only by exterminating them.\u201d<\/p>\n Spanning more than four hundred years, this classic bottom-up peoples\u2019 history radically reframes US history and explodes the silences that have haunted our national narrative.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n #NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women <\/em>edited by Mary Beth Leatherdale Whether looking back to a troubled past or welcoming a hopeful future, the powerful voices of Indigenous women across North America resound in this book. In the same style as the best-selling\u00a0Dreaming in Indian<\/em>,\u00a0#NotYourPrincess<\/em>presents an eclectic collection of poems, essays, interviews, and art that combine to express the experience of being a Native woman. Stories of abuse, humiliation, and stereotyping are countered by the voices of passionate women making themselves heard and demanding change. Sometimes angry, often reflective, but always strong, the women in this book will give teen readers insight into the lives of women who, for so long, have been virtually invisible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" October is Native American Heritage Month in the US, so the Uni High Library has curated a collection of some of the books written by and about indigenous folks (primarily focused on communities from what is commonly known as the United States and Canada). 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\nCall Number: Fiction D591m<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2022\/11\/TheMarrowThieves_BookCover-200x300.jpg\")
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\nCall Number: Fiction Er29r<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2022\/11\/TheRoundHouse_BookCover-198x300.jpg\")
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\nCall Number: Fiction G157i<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2022\/11\/IfIEverGetOutofHere_BookCover-198x300.jpg\")
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\nCall Number: Fiction M3568i<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2022\/11\/IntheFootstepsofCrazyHorse_BookCover-225x300.jpg\")
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\nCall Number: Fiction Or152th<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2022\/11\/ThereThere_BookCover-199x300.jpg\")
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\nCall Number: Fiction R6311ma<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2022\/11\/ManMadeMonsters_BookCover-201x300.jpg\")
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\nCall Number: GN K587bo<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2022\/11\/Borders_BookCover-200x300.jpg\")
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\nCall Number: GN T731<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2022\/11\/Trickster_BookCover-300x300.jpg\")
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\nCall Number: GN V591gi v.1<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2022\/11\/AGirlCalledEcho_PemmicanWars_BookCover-194x300.jpg\")
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\nCall Number: GN V591gi v. 2<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2022\/11\/AGirlCalledEcho_RedRiverResistance_BookCover-195x300.jpg\")
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\nCall Number: 970.004 D911in<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2022\/11\/AnIndigenou-PeoplesHistoryoftheUnitedStates_BookCover-200x300.jpg\")
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\nCall Number: 971.00497 N849<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2022\/11\/NotYourPrincess_BookCover-232x300.jpg\")
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