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A little boy plants an apple seed, and as soon as it sprouts the boy can see the apple tree it is meant to be. But the little apple tree isn't so sure. Young and impatient, the tree begins to doubt its calling, especially after apples fail to appear that first October. How can the little boy encourage the tree to give the seasons and years the time to work their magic?
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A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Everyone
E CHI
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E CHI
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Alex Green Elementary - Everyone
E CHI
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E CHI
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Andrew Jackson Elementary - Everyone
E CHI
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E CHI
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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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Cane Ridge Elementary - Kids Biography
B WAH NEL
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B WAH NEL
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Glengarry Elementary - Kids Biography
B Wah
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B Wah
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Glengarry Elementary - Kids Biography
B Wah Nel
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B Wah Nel
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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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Cane Ridge Elementary - Kids Fiction
F TIN
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F TIN
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Cole Elementary - Everyone
E TIN
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E TIN
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Eakin Elementary - Everyone
E TIN
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E TIN
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In the 1800s, a Choctaw girl becomes friends with a slave boy from a plantation across the great river, and when she learns that his family is in trouble, she helps them cross to freedom.
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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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Cane Ridge Elementary - Everyone
E Tah
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E Tah
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Cumberland Elementary - Everyone
E TAH
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E TAH
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Fall-Hamilton Elementary - Everyone
E TAH
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E TAH
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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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Amqui Elementary - Kids Non-Fiction
970 Kin
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970 Kin
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Hickman Elementary - Kids Non-Fiction
970.004 Kin
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970.004 Kin
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Moss Elementary - Kids Non-Fiction
970 Kin
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970 Kin
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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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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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Amqui Elementary - Everyone
E Min
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E Min
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Glengarry Elementary - Everyone
E Min
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E Min
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"I like to eat, eat, eat," choruses young Johnny as he watches Grandma at work in the kitchen. Wild rice, fried potatoes, fruit salad, frosted sweet rolls -- what a feast! Johnny can hardly contain his excitement. In no time, he'll be digging in with everyone else, filling his belly with all this good food. But wait. First there is the long drive to the community center. And then an even longer Ojibwe prayer. And then -- well, young boys know to follow...
10) Jingle dancer
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Cane Ridge Elementary - Everyone
E SMI
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E SMI
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Eagle View Elementary - Everyone
E Smi
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E Smi
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Fall-Hamilton Elementary - Everyone
E SMI
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E SMI
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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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Davis Early Learning Center - Kids Board Book
How I Feel Board Book
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How I Feel Board Book
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★ "A quiet loveliness, sense of gratitude, and—yes—happiness emanate from this tender celebration of simple pleasures."—Publishers Weekly, starred review
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
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A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Everyone
E Tho
1 available
E Tho
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Cane Ridge Elementary - Everyone
E Tho
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E Tho
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Cockrill Elementary - Everyone
E Tho
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E Tho
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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."--
13) Shi-shi-etko
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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.
14) Stolen words
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Eagle View Elementary - Everyone
E Flo
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E Flo
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Explore! Community School - Everyone
E FLO
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E FLO
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Glengarry Elementary - Everyone
E Flo
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E Flo
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"This picture book explores the intergenerational impact of Canada's residential school system that separated Indigenous children from their families. The story recognizes the pain of those whose culture and language were taken from them, how that pain is passed down and shared through generations, and how healing can also be shared. Stolen Words captures the beautiful, healing relationship between a little girl and her grandfather. When she asks...
15) Sweetest Kulu
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Glengarry Elementary - Everyone
E Kal
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E Kal
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Mt. View Elementary - Everyone
E Kal
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E Kal
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Norman Binkley Elementary - Everyone
E KAL
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E KAL
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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."--...
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Andrew Jackson Elementary - Kids Biography
B TAL TAL
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B TAL TAL
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Cole Elementary - Kids Biography
B TAL TAL
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B TAL TAL
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Dan Mills Elementary - Kids Biography
B TAL TAL
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B TAL TAL
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Ballerina Maria Tallchief describes her childhood on an Osage reservation, the development of her love of dance, and her rise to success in that field.
17) Thunder Boy Jr
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A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Everyone
E ALE
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E ALE
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Amqui Elementary - Everyone
E ALE
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E ALE
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Andrew Jackson Elementary - Everyone
E ALE
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E ALE
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"Thunder Boy Jr. wants a normal name ... one that's all his own. Dad is known as Big Thunder, but Little Thunder doesn't want to share a name"--
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Charlotte Park Elementary - Kids Biography
B Tho Cou
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B Tho Cou
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Glenview Elementary - Kids Biography
B THO COU
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B THO COU
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Goodlettsville Elementary - Kids Biography
B Tho Cou
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B Tho Cou
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A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Everyone
E SOR
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E SOR
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A. Z. Kelley Elementary - Kids Non-Fiction
975 Sor
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975 Sor
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Alex Green Elementary - Kids Non-Fiction
975 SOR
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975 SOR
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Otsaliheliga is a Cherokee word that is used to express gratitude. Journey through the year with a Cherokee family and their tribal nation as they express thanks for celebrations big and small. A look at modern Native American life as told by a citizen of the Cherokee Nation.
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Eagle View Elementary - Everyone
E Rob
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E Rob
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Tusculum Elementary - Everyone
E Rob
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E Rob
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Westmeade Elementary - Everyone
E Rob
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E Rob
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"When a young girl helps tend to her grandmother's garden, she begins to notice things that make her curious. Why does her grandmother have long, braided hair and beautifully colored clothing? Why does she speak another language and spend so much time with her family? As she asks her grandmother about these things, she is told about life in a residential school a long time ago, where all of these things were taken away. When We Were Alone is a story...