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1) Rez dogs
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Malian was visiting her grandparents on the reservation when the COVID-19 pandemic started. Now she's staying there, away from her parents and her school in Boston. Everyone is worried about the pandemic, but on the reservation, everyone protects each other, from Malian caring for her grandparents to the local dog, Malsum, guarding their house. They always survive together. Malian hears stories from her grandparents about how it has always been this...
2) Rez Dog
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When Ryder Dane and Travis Jackson end up in a fight in their school lunchroom, the juvenile judge sentences them to community service at a local dog retreat. There, Lakota dog handler Chade Long Soldier introduces the two boys to his guest of honor, a legendary Narco dog named Rocket. In the days leading up to the pit bull's retirement ceremony, Ryder and Travis bond with the dog. As payback for the millions of dollars Rocket alerted to during his...
3) Zoug-Rez Dog
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The Native American symbolization of the dog is noble, faithful, loyal, teaching, protection, and guidance. This is a very special story, a true story, about a puppy that had a heart much bigger than that of any person I have ever known and had taught our family a very important lesson about unconditional love and friendship.
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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.
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"In prose that is evocative and sensual, unabashedly queer and visceral, raw and autobiographical, Joshua Whitehead writes of an Indigenous body in pain, coping with trauma. Intellectually audacious and emotionally compelling, Whitehead shares his devotion to the world in which we live and brilliantly-even joyfully-maps his experience on the land that has shaped stories, histories, and bodies from time immemorial"--
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Can a dog turn into a vampire if it bites a vampire?
Loyal Rez dog Gertrude saves her human Doreen from becoming a Missing and Murdered Indigenous Woman statistic.
Doreen starts to think her neighbor was more than a creep, when Gertrude develops an allergy to sunlight and starts to crave raw meat, the bloodier the better.
Will she have to put her loyal companion down?
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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.
Native families from Nations across the continent gather at the Dance for Mother Earth Powwow in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
In a high school gym full of color and song, people dance, sell beadwork and books, and celebrate friendship...
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The author, the first Navajo woman surgeon, tells the story of how she was able to cut across cultural, class, and educational borders to become a part of the medical world; and discusses how she came to understand the power of Navajo thinking about health and illness to impact some of modern medicine's most daunting problems.
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This summer, Tasembo just wants to chill. But that's not an option when it's a scorching day on the Reservation and the Ice Cream Man is a no-show. In an attempt to impress his crush by solving the mystery, Tasembo joins forces with his neighbor, Nuseka, and his dog, Billy Jack, to take on their first case as the Rez Dog Detectives. With twists around every corner, this case won't crack itself, but when you combine Nuseka's brains, Billy Jack's loyalty,...
10) Bamboo Dogs
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Four criminals, four cops in a van. On what should have been just another night on the job, police officers Esquivel & Corazon receive an order that seems simple enough at first: fix an arrest mix-up by taking a notorious group of robbers to a camp where they will be let go. But mid-transport, the orders change and Esquivel and his co-policemen find themselves having to choose between carrying out orders or doing what’s right. Official Selection...
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" Good Friday on the Rez introduces readers to places and people that author, writer, and entrepreneur David Bunnell encounters during his one day, 280-mile road trip from his boyhood Nebraska hometown to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to visit his longtime friend, Vernell White Thunder, a full-blooded Oglala Lakota, descendant of a long line of prominent chiefs and medicine men. This captivating narrative is part memoir and part history. Bunnell...
12) On the rez
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" ... about modern-day American Indians, especially the storied Oglala Sioux, who live now on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation ..."--Dust cover.
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"Auntie always greets Cree in Nehiyaw when she comes for a visit. When Auntie arrives with a surprise gift hidden in her bag, Cree can't wait to discover what it is. The first clue? It's from the rez. As Cree tries to figure out what it might be, the bag starts to move!"--
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"Auntie always greets Cree in nēhiyawēwin when she comes for a visit. When Auntie arrives with a surprise gift hidden in her bag, Cree can't wait to discover what it is. The first clue? It's from the rez. As Cree tries to figure out what it might be, the bag starts to move. Cree is thrilled when the bag opens and out jumps a rez puppy! Cree asks Auntie how to take care of the new puppy. Auntie talks to Cree about the importance of dogs in their...
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