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1) The Tlingit
Author
Series
Publisher
Benchmark Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
3) Berry song
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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2023 ALA Youth Media Awards
2024 ALA Youth Media Awards
Día - El Día de los Niños/El Día de los Libros
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2024 ALA Youth Media Awards
Día - El Día de los Niños/El Día de los Libros
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Description
On an island at the edge of a wide, wild sea, a girl and her grandmother gather gifts from the earth. Salmon from the stream, herring eggs from the ocean, and in the forest, a world of berries. Salmonberry, Cloudberry, Blueberry, Nagoonberry. Huckleberry, Snowberry, Strawberry, Crowberry. Through the seasons, they sing to the land as the land sings to them. Brimming with joy and gratitude, in every step of their journey, they forge a deeper kinship...
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"So, How Long Have You Been Native? is Alexis C. Bunten's firsthand account of what it is like to work in the Alaska cultural tourism industry. An Alaska Native and anthropologist, she spent two seasons working for a tribally owned tourism business that markets the Tlingit culture in Sitka. Bunten's narrative takes readers through the summer tour season as she is hired and trained and eventually becomes a guide. A multibillion-dollar worldwide industry,...
Author
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
"In her first book, Blonde Indian, Ernestine Hayes powerfully recounted the story of coming back to Juneau and to her Tlingit home after many years of wandering. The Tao of Raven takes up the next and in some ways more interesting question: once the exile returns, then what? Using motifs from the story Raven and the Box of Daylight to deepen her narration and reflection, Hayes expresses an ongoing frustration and anger at the obstacles and prejudices...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace & Company
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young man proves himself to be resourceful and brave, despite the mockery of his nagging mother-in-law, when he wears the skin of a ferocious sea monster he has slain.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Formats
Description
After his anger erupts into violence, Cole, in order to avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the native American Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When Jenna Rosen abandons her comfortable Seattle life to visit Wrangell, Alaska, it's a wrenching return to her past. Wrangell is located near the Thunder Bay Resort, where Jenna's young son, Bobby, disappeared two years before. His body was never recovered, and Jenna is determined to lay to rest the aching mystery of his death.--From publisher's description.
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