Joseph Bruchac
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"The League of the Iroquois was a true representational democracy-so much so that the United States Constitution is said to have been modeled on some of its tenets. But how, perhaps a thousand years before the time of Columbus, did the Five Iroquois Nations (the Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, and Seneca) come to end the bitter eye-for-eye warfare among them? What brought them together in an alliance based on the Great Law of Peace? And how was...
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"On November 20, 1969, a group of 89 Native Americans-most of them young activists in their twenties, led by Richard Oakes, LaNada Means, and others-crossed San Francisco Bay under the cover of darkness. They called themselves the "Indians of All Tribes." Their objective was to occupy the abandoned prison on Alcatraz Island ("The Rock"), a mile and a half across the treacherous waters. Under the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie between the U.S. and the...
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It is October 1, 1838. John Ross, the Chief of the great Cherokee Nation, is looking at his home for last time. All around him, people are loading covered wagons. Soon the last bundle is packed and the last horse is hitched. John Ross and the group of Cherokee people he is leading are ready to begin the long march west. The Cherokee people do not want to leave the land they love. But they don't have a choice. Today is their first day on the Trail...
5) Peacemaker
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"A twelve-year-old Iroquois boy rethinks his calling after witnessing the arrival of a mystical figure with a message of peace in this historical novel based on the creation of the Iroquois Confederacy"--
6) Rez dogs
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"Twelve-year-old Malian lives with her grandparents on a Wabanaki reservation during the COVID-19 pandemic"--
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Native poetry. In Indians, Roxy Gordon writes: "Poetry is an Indian, / journalism ain't and / proper punctuation ain't. / Circles are Indians / and random lines are Indians. / Straight lines ain't ... / Health food stores try / hard to be Indian. / Living is Indian, / expecting to live forever ain't."