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Native American Heritage Teaching Resources Center, Joyner Library A Selective Annotated Bibliography Titles in the Teaching Resources Center are cataloged with Dewey call numbers and are preceded by Curric. Please ask someone at the Teaching Resources Service Desk if you need any assistance. Grade Title Information Call Level Number BIG BOOKS PreK-2 Bruchac, Michael. The Story of the Milky Way: a Cherokee Tale. New BB York: McGraw Hill, 1995. B8309S When cornmeal is stolen from an elderly couple, the others in a Cherokee village find a way to drive off the thief, creating the Milky Way in the process. K-3 Mitchell, Barbara. Red Bird. Glenview, IL: Scott Foresman, 2000. BB M6923R Katie, also known as Red Bird, joins her family and other Indians at the annual powwow in southern Delaware, where they celebrate their Nanticoke heritage with music, dancing, and special foods. EASY PreK-3 Alexie, Sherman. Thunder Boy, Jr. New York: Little Brown and Company, E 2016. AL279T 1 Thunder Boy Jr. is named after his dad, but he wants a name that's all his own. Just because people call his dad Big Thunder doesn't mean he wants to be Little Thunder. He wants a name that celebrates something cool he's done, like Touch the Clouds, Not Afraid of Ten Thousand Teeth, or Full of Wonder. But just when Thunder Boy Jr. thinks all hope is lost, he and his dad pick the perfect name... a name that is sure to light up the sky. K-3 Benchley, Nathaniel, and Joan Sandin. Small Wolf. New York: E HarperCollins, 1994. B432S A young Native American boy sets out to hunt on Manhattan Island and discovers some strange people with white faces and very different ideas about land. K-3 Blood, Charles L., Martin A Link, and Nancy Winslow Parker. The Goat In E the Rug. New York: Four Winds Press, 1980. B6231G Geraldine, a goat, describes each step as she and her Navajo friend make a rug, from the hair clipping and carding to the dyeing and actual weaving. K-3 Boyden, Linda, and Amy Córdova. The Blue Roses. Columbus, OH: E SRA/McGraw-Hill, 2003. B693B A Native American girl gardens with her grandfather, who helps to raise her, and learns about life and loss when he dies, and then speaks to her from a dream where he is surrounded by blue roses. K-3 Bruchac, Joseph, and S. D Nelson. Crazy Horse's Vision. New York: Lee & E Low Books, 2000. B83C A story based on the life of the dedicated young Lakota boy who grew up to be one of the bravest defenders of his people. 1-3 Bruchac, Joseph. Fox Song. New York: Philomel Books, 1993. E B83F After the death of her Indian great-grandmother, Jamie remembers the many special things the old woman shared with her about the natural world. PreK-2 Campbell, Nicola I, and Kim LaFave. Grandpa's Girls. Toronto: E Groundwood Books, 2011. C1533G 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. 2 PreK-2 Campbell, Nicola I, and Kim LaFave. Shin-chi's Canoe. Toronto: E Groundwood Books, 2008. C1533S When Shin-chi and his sister go off to his first year of Residential School in a cattle truck, she warns him of all the things he must not do. The days are long, he is very lonely and always hungry, but he finds solace down at the river with a gift from his father, a tiny cedar canoe. PreK-2 Campbell, Nicola I., and Kim LaFave. Shi-shi-etko. Toronto: Groundwood E Books, 2005. C1533SHI 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. K-2 Campoy, F. Isabel, Alma Flor Ada, and Maria Jesus Alvarez. Celebrate a E Powwow with Sandy Starbright. Miami: ALFAGUARA/Santillana C158C USA Pub. Co., 2007. Sandy Starbright's family celebrates her birthday by giving her gifts and going to a powwow. Includes nonfiction information about powwows. PreK-2 Child, Brenda J., Gordon Jourdain, and Jonathan Thunder. Bowwow Powwow E =: Bagosenjige-niimi'idim. Saint Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical C4363B Society Press, 2018. When Uncle and Windy Girl attend a powwow, Windy watches the dancers and listens to the singers…All attesting to the wonder of the powwow. 2-3 Conway, Diana Cohen, and Shelly O Haas. Northern Lights: A Hanukkah E Story. Rockville, MD: Kar-Ben Copies, 1994. C7691N When a storm grounds their plane, a Jewish family celebrates Hanukkah with a Yupik Eskimo family and discovers they share many customs. K-2 DeCoteau, Sandra Orie. Did You Hear the Wind Sing Your Name? An E Oneida Song of Spring. New York: Walker & Co, 1995. D3589D Pictures and words pay homage to the Oneida Indians' view of the cycle of spring. K-3 Dengler, Marianna, and Sibyl Graber Gerig. The Worry Stone. Flagstaff, AZ: E Northland Pub., 1996. D414W When a small, serious boy joins Amanda on the park bench, she remembers that once she was small and serious too, but she had Grandfather--and his wonderful stories. 3 PreK-3 DePaola, Tomie. The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush. New York: Putnam, E 1988. D44LE In spring, the hills and meadows of Texas and Wyoming are ablaze with the reds, oranges, and yellows of the Indian Paintbrush. How this striking plant received its name is told in an old Indian legend. 1-3 De Vore, Maggie, and Jeffrey De Vore. White Crow. Santa Fe, NM: Gently E Worded Books, 2002. D4987W Nine-year-old Little Buffalo and his dog, Nopad, search for the elusive White Crow, who can be seen and heard only with the heart. PreK-2 Edmiston, Jim, and Jane Ross. Little Eagle Lots of Owls. 1st American ed. E Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993. ED55L Little Eagle Lots of Owls is puzzled by his grandfather's gift of a strange animal that will not wake up, until he discovers that the creature represents part of his name. PreK-2 Ehlert, Lois. Mole's Hill: A Woodland Tale. San Diego: Harcourt Brace, E 1994. EH56M When Fox tells Mole she must move out of her tunnel to make way for a new path, Mole finds an ingenious way to save her home. 2-5 Farber, Erica, John R Sansevere, and Mercer Mayer. Golden Eagle: A E Graphic Novel Adventure. Columbus, Ohio: School Specialty Pub., F2217M3 2006. In Coyote Canyon all the highly prized golden eagle eggs have disappeared. Are the weasels and coyotes to blame? The Critter Kids are on the case. K-3 Flett, Julie, and Earl Cook. Wild Berries =: Pikaci-mīnisa. Vancouver: E Simply Read Books, 2013. F6385W Clarence and his grandmother pick wild blueberries and meet ant, spider, and fox in a beautiful woodland landscape. 1-4 Flood, Pansie Hart, and Amy Wummer. It's Test Day, Tiger Turcotte. E Minneapolis, MN: Carolrhoda Books, 2004. F6595I Already so worried about the big second grade test that his stomach is upset, seven-year-old Tiger Turcotte, whose parents are African American, Meherrin Indian, and Hispanic, gets stuck on the question about race. PreK-2 Franklin, Kristine L, and Jill Kastner. The Shepherd Boy. Columbus, OH: E 4 SRA Macmillan/McGraw-Hill, 1994. F8546S As a young Navajo boy brings his family's sheep home one evening, he discovers one is missing and sets out to rescue it before nightfall. 1-3 Glass, Andrew. Bewildered for Three Days: As to Why Daniel Boone Never E Wore His Coonskin Cap. New York: Holiday House, 2000. G4632B With the help of what he learned from a Delaware Indian boy and an accommodating mother raccoon, young Daniel Boone escapes danger when a bear steals his coonskin cap. PreK-3 Goble, Paul. Beyond the Ridge. New York: Bradbury Press, 1989. E G538B An exquisite blending of folklore, full-color artwork, and the prayers and traditions of the Plains Indians chronicles the spiritual journey of an old woman from death to a reunion with friends and loved ones who had died before. K-3 Goble, Paul. Death of the Iron Horse. New York: Bradbury Press, 1987. E G538D Powerful words and pictures tell the true story of August 7, 1867 - the only time an "Iron Horse" was derailed by Native Americans. It is a tale of courage and pride and of a people caught up in an unequal struggle to preserve their sacred way of life. PreK-3 Goble, Paul. Dream Wolf. New York: Bradbury Press, 1990. E G538DR Lost in the mountains, Tiblo and his little sister Tanksi are rescued by a friendly wolf who leads them safely back to their village. PreK-3 Goble, Paul. The Gift of the Sacred Dog: Story and Illustrations. Scarsdale, E N.Y.: Bradbury Press, 1980. G538GI The Great Spirit gives the sacred dog to an Indian boy seeking relief for his hungry people. PreK-3 Goble, Paul. The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses. Scarsdale, N.Y.: Bradbury E Press, 1978. G538GIR Though she is fond of her people, a girl prefers to live among the wild horses where she is truly happy and free. PreK-3 Goble, Paul. Her Seven Brothers. New York: Bradbury Press, 1988. E G538H When an Indian girl begins to make clothes beautifully decorated with 5 porcupine quills for seven brothers she has not yet met, her parents believe that unseen powers have spoken to her.