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1) Josie dances
Author
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, color map ; 27 cm
Language
English
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. Includes glossary.
Author
Series
Publisher
North Dakota State University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xiii, 277 pages : illustrations, 1 folded map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Education professor Denise Lajimodiere's interest in American Indian boarding school survivors stories evolved from recording her father and other family members speaking of their experiences. The journey to record survivors stories led her through the Dakotas and Minnesota and into the personal and private space of boarding school survivors. While there, she heard stories that they had never shared before. She came to an understanding of new terms:...
Author
Series
Publisher
Michigan State University Press
Pub. Date
©2010
Physical Desc
xvi, 93 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dragonfly Dance is a collection of poems remarkable for their candor and sense of catharsis. Writing from the vantage point of an American Indian women, Denise Lajimodiere opens a door into the lives of Native girls and women. Her poems often reflect the deep tensions between Native culture and white culture.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
xix, 284 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Thousands of Indigenous children were forcibly sent to attend boarding schools specifically created by the government to teach them the ways of white society and punish them for observing their own cultures. Little Moon There Are No Stars Tonight was only four years old when she was removed from her home and sent to Chilocco -- and her grandson, the author, was working there as maintenance staff when it shut down nearly one hundred years later. These...