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Thomas Wazhashk is the night watchman at the jewel bearing plant, the first factory located near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a Chippewa Council member who is trying to understand the consequences of a new "emancipation" bill on its way to the floor of the United States Congress. It is 1953 and he and the other council members know the bill isnt about freedom; Congress is fed up with Indians. The bill is a "termination"...
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Birchbark house volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 7
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Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe, lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847.
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IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 17
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The unsolved murder of a farm family haunts the small, white, off-reservation town of Pluto, North Dakota. The vengeance exacted for this crime and the subsequent distortions of truth transform the lives of Ojibwe living on the nearby reservation and shape the passions of both communities for the next generation.
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IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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When Faye Travers appraises the estate of a family who descended from an Indian agent who worked on the North Dakota Ojibwe reservation that is home to her mother's family, she finds a rare drum. The story traces the drum's passage both backward and forward in time, from the reservation on the northern plains to New Hampshire and back.
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Birchbark house volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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When rumors that the white men are coming to remove her entire tribe from their land gains more credence, nine-year-old Omakayas, of the Ojibwa tribe, begins to fear for the worst while her family considers moving west.
8) Chickadee
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Birchbark house volume 4
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Harper/HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
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In 1866, Omakayas's son Chickadee is kidnapped by two ne'er-do-well brothers from his own tribe and must make a daring escape, forge unlikely friendships, and set out on an exciting and dangerous journey to get back home.
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Birchbark house volume 3
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HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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In 1852, forced by the United States government to leave their beloved Island of the Golden Breasted Woodpecker, fourteen-year-old Omokayas and her Ojibwe family travel in search of a new home.
10) Makoons
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Birchbark house volume 5
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
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IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Living with their Ojibwe family on the Great Plains of Dakota Territory in 1866, twin brothers Makoons and Chickadee must learn to become buffalo hunters, but Makoons has a vision that foretells great challenges that his family may not be able to overcome.
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