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5) Being home
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Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
On a day filled with anticipation, a young Cherokee girl bids farewell to her familiar city life and documents the changing landscape through drawings as her family moves to their ancestral land and embraces their new home.
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At the age of twelve, under the Wind moon, Will is given a horse, a key, and a map, and sent alone into the Indian Nation to run a trading post as a bound boy. It is during this time that he grows into a man, learning, as he does, of the raw power it takes to create a life, to find a home. In a card game with a white Indian named Featherstone, Will wins a mysterious girl named Claire. As Will's destiny intertwines with the fate of the Cherokee Indians,...
8) Ravenmocker
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Series
Molly Bearpaw mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
©1992
Physical Desc
258 pages : map ; 22 cm
Description
Asked to witness the autopsy of an elderly Cherokee man who died unexpectedly in his nursing home, Native American Advocacy League investigator Molly Bearpaw discovers that the dead man's heart has been stolen.
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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454 pages ; 23 cm
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Cherokee ex-cop Thumps DreadfulWater investigates the deaths of two people who worked for Orion Technologies, a company that is in the midst of developing a revolutionary method for extracting fresh water from hidden reservoirs.
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"Nineteen-year-old Cowney Sequoyah yearns to escape his hometown of Cherokee, North Carolina, in the heart of the Smoky Mountains. When a summer job at Asheville's luxurious Grove Park Inn and Resort brings him one step closer to escaping the hills that both cradle and suffocate him, he sees it as an opportunity. With World War II raging in Europe, the inn is the temporary home of Axis diplomats and their families, who are being held as prisoners...
13) No name
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Pub. Date
[2014]
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iii, 160 pages ; 18 cm.
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When his mother leaves, sixteen-year-old Bobby, a Choctaw, begins living in a hole in his backyard to avoid his abusive father, and is surprised to find friends and neighbors willing to help him. Inspired by the traditional Choctaw story.
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2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FICTION FINALIST
Set in rural Oklahoma during the late 1980s, Where the Dead Sit Talking is a stunning and lyrical Native American coming-of-age story.
With his single mother in jail, Sequoyah, a fifteen-year-old Cherokee boy, is placed in foster care with the Troutt family. Literally and figuratively scarred by his mother’s years of substance abuse, Sequoyah keeps mostly to himself, living...
Set in rural Oklahoma during the late 1980s, Where the Dead Sit Talking is a stunning and lyrical Native American coming-of-age story.
With his single mother in jail, Sequoyah, a fifteen-year-old Cherokee boy, is placed in foster care with the Troutt family. Literally and figuratively scarred by his mother’s years of substance abuse, Sequoyah keeps mostly to himself, living...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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272 pages ; 22 cm
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Quah, Oklahoma. In the fifteen years since their teenage son, Ray-Ray, was killed in a police shooting, the Echota family has been suspended in private grief. The mother, Maria, increasingly struggles to manage the onset of Alzheimer's in her husband, Ernest. Their adult daughter, Sonja, leads a life of solitude, punctuated only by spells of dizzying romantic obsession. And their son, Edgar, fled home long ago, turning to drugs to mute his feelings...
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Pub. Date
2014.
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301 pages : genealogical table ; 22 cm.
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Ruth Harris and her younger brother, Jerry, who are of mixed Cherokee and white heritage, head down the Ohio with their parents to settle new country, perhaps in Arkansas. Pirates kill their parents, and the kids become captives on a Mississippi River island. Ruth is forced into marriage with a ne'er-do-well and bears his child; Jerry seems destined to become a pirate. Then the New Madrid earthquake of 1811 intervenes.
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Pub. Date
2013.
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667 pages (large print) : maps ; 23 cm.
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Kah-nung-da-tla-geh -- the great Cherokee chieftain known as the Ridge -- had one foot in each of two worlds. The first was that of his ancestors; the second was a new world of forced change, war, and death that arrived with the white man. His visionary leadership led the Cherokee into the future as one nation. But the white tide continued, the Ridge's judgment was flung aside in favor of war, and his contribution to the Cherokee Nation was forgotten,...
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