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Juvenile and Young Adult Reading List: Aboriginal Tales


EASY

E And Andrews, J. Very Last First Time (Inuit) E Bea Bear, G. Two Little Girls Lost in the Bush (Cree) E Bru Bruuchac, J. The Trail of Tears (Cherokee) E Bur Burford, D. Magical Earth Secrets E Che Cherry, L. The Shaman's Apprentice (Amazon Rain Forest) E Cro Crook, C. Maple Moon (Missisauga) E Cum Cumming, P. Out on the Ice in the Middle of the Bay (Inuit) E Geo George, J. Arctic Son E Kus Kusugak, M. Baseball Bats for Christmas (Inuit) E Kus Kusugak, M. Hide and Sneak (Inuit) E Kus Kusugak, M. My Arctic 1,2,3 (Inuit) E Kus Kusugak, M. Northern Lights: Soccer Trails (Inuit) E McC McCain, B. Grandmother's Dreamcatcher (Chippewa) E Mun Munsch, R. Promise is a Promise (Inuit) E Oso Osofsky, A. Dreamcatcher (Ojibwa) E Ped Pederson, J. Treaty Days (Chipewa) E Sco Scott, A. Brave as a Mountain Lion (Shoshone) E Wat Waterton, B. Salmon for Simon

JUVENILE

J Bla Blades, A. Boy of Tache (Northern BC) J Cam Cameron, A. How Raven Freed the Moon (North American Myth) J Cha Challenger, R. Eagle's Reflection and other Northwest Stories J Har Harrison, T. The Blue Raven (Athapaskan) J Kle Kleitsch, C. Dancing Feathers (Ojibway) J Ode O'Dell, S. Black Star (Inuit) J Ode O'Dell, S. Island of the Blue Dolphin (North American) J Sil Silverwolf, R. Silverwolf, Son of the Iroquois (Mohawk) J Spe Speare, E. The Sign of the Beaver J Ste Sterling, S. My Name is Seepeetza (First Nations)

YOUNG ADULT

YA Bro Brooks, M. Bone Dance YA Geo George, J. The Talking Earth YA Geo George, J. Water Sky YA Hud Hudson, J. Sweetgrass YA Hud Hudson, J. Dawn Rider YA Kat Katz, W. False Face YA Mac MacGregor, R. Prophecy Rock YA Mat Matcheck, D. The Sacrifice YA Ode O'Dell, S. Streams to the River, River to the Sea

NON-FICTION

J 398.2 And And it is Still That Way (North American legend) J 398.2 Ber How the Sun Made a Promise and Kept It (Ojibwa) J 811.54 Bou The Elders Are Watching J 745.08797 Bra Traditional Native American Arts and Activities J 812.54 Bru Pushing Up the Sky J 398.208997 Cam Spider Woman (NA Indian Myth) J 398.208997 Cam Raven returns the Water J 398.208997 Con Why the Possum's Tail is Bare and Other Stories J 398.2 Cro Winter Wife: An Abenaki Folktale J 398.2459744 Dab The Polar Bear Son J 398.208972 Dun Magic of Spider Woman (Navajo Nation) J 641.59297 Erd Food and Recipes of the Native Americans J 971.1 Ges Bears and Berries (Haida) J 398.2 Har Once Upon a Totem J 398.2 Har Sky Man on the Totem Pole J 398.2 Hou Eagle Mask J 398.2089971 Hul Native North American Stories J 394 Kal Celebrating the Powwow J 811.3 Lon Hiawatha (Ojibwa) J 731.7 Jen Carving a Totem Pole J 970.1 Mac Sea and Cedar (North West Coast Indian) J 398.2108997 McL The Birth of Nanabosho (Ojibwa) J 305.4092271 Mer Her Story: Women From Canada's Past J 305.4092271 Mer Her Story II: Women From Canada's Past J 398.2452796 Nav Navajo Coyote Tales J 398.2089973 San Sootface (Ojibwa) J 971.100497 Saw Donna Meets Coyote J 398.2 Sch Windigo and Other Tales of the Ojibways J 811.3 Sea Brother Eagle, Sister Sky (Great Plains Indians) J 392.3600899 She Houses of Wood: Native Dwellings J 392.3600899 She Houses of Bark: Tipi, Wigwam, Longhouse (Woodlands Indians) J 398.2 Sim The She-Wolf of Tsla-a-wat J 970.100497 Sis We Are the Shuswap (Secwepemc) J 398.208997 Sto Story of Chakapas (Cree) J 398.208977 Tay How We Saw the World (9 native stories of the way things began) J 398.2089975 Tay Secret of the White Buffalo (Oglala, Sioux, Dakota) J 398.2089973 Tay Messenger of Spring J 394 Tho Cheryls Potlach (Yinka Dene) J 398.20971 Toy How Summer Came to Canada

Other Native American Books

J 971.100497 Dem Indians of the Rocky Mountain Parks J 970.00497 Gol Algonkian Hunters of the Eastern Woodlands J 970.004971 Hah The Inuit J 970.44 Joh The Value of Truth and Trust: The Story of Cochise J 971.2004973 Hac The Canadians: Crowfoot J 971.900497 Kin Arctic Hunters: Indians and Inuit of Northern Canada J 970.1 Laf The American Indian J 971.00497 Mar The Beothuk of Newfoundland: A Vanished People J 970.00497 McC The Iroquois J 971.300497 Pat Iroquoians of the Eastern Woodlands J 971.00497 Pel Inuit of the North J 970.004973 Qui The Algonquians J 971.00497 Rid People of the Trail: How the Northern forest Indians Lived J 971.200497 Upd Our People: Indians of the Plains J 970.00497 Wil Native Indians

Booktapes

398.208997 Cad Keepers of the Earth 978.049752 Cra Crazy Horse (Oglala Indian Biography) Updated August 2001

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