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1) Powwow
Author
Series
Publisher
Weigl Publishers
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Provides information on the Native American celebratory gatherings known as powwows.
Publisher
Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
A volume of interconnected stories and poems set at a Native American Dance for Mother Earth Powwow celebration in Ann Arbor, Michigan, includes contributions by such new and veteran writers as Joseph Bruchac, Dawn Quigley, and Traci Sorell.
Author
Publisher
AdN, Alianza de Novelas
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
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Description
"Estamos ante una voz que nunca hemos escuchado, una voz llena de poesía y de rabia, que estalla en la página con un apremio y una fuerza asombrosos. Una novela que sorprende por su forma de abordar una Historia compleja y dolorosa, un legado de belleza y de una profunda espiritualidad, así como la plaga de adición, maltrato y suicidio entre los nativos americanos. "Ni aquí ni allí" es un relato intergeneracional con un ritmo implacable sobre...
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Starting daycare, Nikosis, who grew up going to powwows with his family, where he was immersed in music, dance and the sound of the drum, feels like he doesn't fit in, until his mother and teachers use the drums to help him find connection and comfort.'
"The drum represents the heartbeat of Mother Earth. We all belong to the earth and we all belong to the drum. Nikosis grew up going to powwows with his family, happily immersed in music, dance and...
6) Powwow
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A photo essay on the pan-Indian celebration called a powwow, this particular one being held on the Crow Reservation in Montana.
8) There there
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
"Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary fiction. Tommy Orange's There There introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career. "We all came to the powwow for different reasons. The messy, dangling threads of our lives got pulled into a braid--tied to the back of everything...
9) Powwow day
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Día - El Día de los Niños/El Día de los Libros
Native American Heritage Month for Kids
One World, Many Stories PreK - 2nd
Native American Heritage Month for Kids
One World, Many Stories PreK - 2nd
Description
In this uplifting, contemporary Native American story, River is recovering from illness and can't dance at the powwow this year. Will she ever dance again? River wants so badly to dance at powwow day as she does every year. In this uplifting and contemporary picture book perfect for beginning readers, follow River's journey from feeling isolated after an illness to learning the healing power of community. Additional information explains the history...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A young Indigenous girl's family helps calm her nervous butterflies before her first Jingle Dress Dance and reminds her why she dances.
"From Indigenous creative team Deidre Havrelock and Aly McKnight comes a powerful and exuberant story about the heritage, joy, and healing power of the Jingle Dress Dance—a perfect read-aloud picture book. It’s a special day—the day of the Jingle Dress Dance! Before the big powwow, there’s a lot to do: getting...
11) Josie dances
Author
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
As she prepares for her first powwow, an Ojibwa girl practices her dance steps, gets help from her family, and is inspired by the soaring flight of Migizi, the eagle.
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Cree
Description
"Starting daycare, Nikosis, who grew up going to powwows with his family, where he was immersed in music, dance and the sound of the drum, feels like he doesn’t fit in, until his mother and teachers use the drums to help him find connection and comfort"--OCLC.
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