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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Collection of new stories about Native Americans who, like all Americans, find themselves at personal and cultural crossroads, faced with heart-rending, tragic, sometimes wondrous moments of being that test their loyalties, their capacities, and their notions of who they are and who they love
Author
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Description
The rise to fame of Coyote Springs, an all-Indian rock-and-roll band, tracing its journey from a Spokane reservation all the way to New York. A humorous exploration of serious subjects: the effect of Christianity on Native Americans, cultural assimilation and its impact on relations between Indian men and Indian women. By the author of The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven.
5) War dances
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
A collection of short stories includes the title story, in which a famous writer, who just learned he may have a brain tumor, must decide how to care for his distant, American Indian father who is slowly dying.
Author
Series
Trailblazer books volume 39
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
A fictionalized account of how Spokane Garry, a Spokane Indian chief of the nineteenth-century, became a Christian and led many of his people to Christianity.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Appears on these lists
CSL - Identity, Social Justice, and EDI
CSL - Indigenous Peoples/Native American/American Indian Literature
CSL - Indigenous Peoples/Native American/American Indian Literature
Description
Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot
Author
Pub. Date
1994
Appears on these lists
CSL - Identity, Social Justice, and EDI
CSL - Indigenous Peoples/Native American/American Indian Literature
CSL - Short Story Anthologies
CSL - Indigenous Peoples/Native American/American Indian Literature
CSL - Short Story Anthologies
Description
In his darkly comic short story collection, the author brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life in and around the Spokane Indian Reservation.
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