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1) Powwow day
Author
Language
English
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary fiction. Tommy Orange's There There introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career. "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...
Publisher
Arbor Records Ltd
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Each dance tells a story with its own historical significance, perhaps even the nation's creation mythology. Within the dances and songs, vital elements of Indian culture are expressed and preserved: it was meant to be showy and exhibitionist. The spirit of Native people.
Publisher
Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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.