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1) There there
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
"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 we'd been doing all along to get us here. There will be death and playing dead, there will be screams and unbearable silences, forever-silences, and a kind of time-travel, at the moment the gunshots start, when we look around and see ourselves as we are, in our regalia, and something in our blood will recoil...
Author
Publisher
7th Generation
Pub. Date
[2014].
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Mark Centeno convinces his father, who is Filipino and Mexican, to let him spend time with his mother's Chumash and Crow family in California in hopes of surfing with his friends but, instead, connects with his heritage through dance.
Author
Series
Powwow mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Reycraft Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Twins Jamie and Marie Longbow are excited about summer with their grandparents, traveling from powwow to powwow selling goods they helped to make. When their grandmother's most beautifulnecklace goes missing, it's up to the twins to solve the mystery"--
5) Powwow day
Author
Language
English
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Description
Because she has been very ill and weak, River cannot join in the dancing at this year's tribal powwow, she can only watch from the sidelines as her sisters and cousins dance the celebration--but as the drum beats she finds the faith to believe that she will recover and dance again.
6) Waci! Dance!
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A mother -- the author of this story -- shares Lakota cultural experiences with her daughter, introducing her to waci (dance) as a way to celebrate life. Wacipi (powwow), where the dancing occurs, is a setting for Indigenous song, dance, regalia, food and crafts.
9) Red Sky
Author
Publisher
Genesis Press, Incorporated
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"Photojournalist Justine Roberts-Paretti finds more than beautiful artifacts and exceptional photo opportunities when she arrives in Gallup, New Mexico, to do a story on the Intertribal Ceremonial Powwow. The proverbial Land of Enchantment also offers something she had not expected: love, and at the hands of a very unlikely lover named Darrius Red Sky, owner and operator of Red Sky Jewelers. As if by magic, the two meet and an undeniable attraction...
10) Peg A Cowboy
Author
Publisher
Skye Eagleday
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Confident and competent, Delia has become one of the most sought after Dommes in town. But as a favor to her relatives, the BBW college student heads off to the Pendleton Round-Up, the crowning rodeo and powwow event of the season. She has promised to watch her family's teepee while they're away. Happily drunk and horny, Caleb leaves his cowboy friend to take a leak and wanders into the teepee closest to the rodeo grounds to have the privacy he needs...
11) Warrior's Bride
Author
Publisher
Cajun Hot Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"He's a stranger living in two worlds...In the space of twenty-four incredible hours, Katarina 'Rini' Herelius finds herself hopelessly in love with an exotic mystery-man with no name or face, and pregnant with his child. More than anything she wants to keep him and her baby, but life has a way of playing the cruelest tricks...She's the bridge that makes him whole...The last thing in the world Coleton Lonetree expects to find at the Cardinal Ranch...
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Dinah Pelerin has finally put her life in order. Living in Berlin with her boyfriend Thor, she has landed a job teaching Native American cultures at the university. She's never felt happier. And then her Seminole mother Swan shows up with a crazy scheme to blackmail a German tax dodger and dredges up a secret Dinah has kept hidden from the IRS and from straight-arrow Norwegian Thor, a former cop now with hush-hush international duties. Germans harbor...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Maggie Slone, fast-talking newspaper reporter, covered a special assignment in Gaston Villiere's renowned café Le Coq d'Or on Mardi Gras night. Along with a good meal, she got an earful of a melodramatic conversation at a nearby table. At the table were two couples. One pair, a blond young man and a green-eyed glamour girl, have a row and break-up the party. The next day, Maggie is assigned to cover a suicide-the blond young man of the night...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Edited by award-winning and bestselling author Cynthia Leitich Smith, this collection of intersecting stories by both new and veteran Native writers bursts with hope, joy, resilience, the strength of community, and Native pride."- -Publisher's description.
Author
Series
Publisher
Barbour Books, an imprint of Barbour Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Hidden Falls - A Suspenseful 13-Part Serial Novel from Shiloh Run StudiosQuinn's friends need to powwow. One week without Quinn in Hidden Falls, and nothing seems quite right. He'd be proud of the way the townspeople followed through on his plans for the health fair. But amid the hubbub of the fair, it's clear that those closest to Quinn have information they need to combine in order to find him. Dani knows what Liam knows-and wants out of the middle...
Author
Publisher
Skye Eagleday
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Here's a steamy collection about love that can be larger than life-and life changing. The Lucky Seven tales include: Loving a Wounded Hero: Clay Jose Sanchez was a decorated hero--and one of the many wounded warriors recovering from a road side explosion in Afghanistan. Curvy Kloe is a new physical therapist who has been assigned to work with Clay, a Latino patient who has managed to alienate every other provider at the hospital. But in looking through...
17) Jingle dancer
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Jenna, a member of the Muscogee, or Creek, Nation, borrows jingles from the dresses of several friends and relatives so that she can perform the jingle dance at the powwow. Includes a note about the jingle dance tradition and its regalia.
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The World of Stories project consists of over 30 kits that each explore a different theme about the things that make us special and unique. Each kit contains up to seven books that center around topics such as race and ethnicity, culture and heritage, religion, orientation, family structure, immigration and more. Plus, every kit includes helpful early literacy tips and activities for you to practice at home with your child to help them get ready to...
19) We still belong
Author
Publisher
Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Wesley's hopeful plans for Indigenous Peoples' Day (and asking her crush to the dance) go all wrong--until she finds herself surrounded by the love of her Indigenous family and community at the intertribal powwow"--
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