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22) Mohawk
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A discussion of the history, culture, and contemporary life of the Mohawk Indians.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"After a decade of chasing stories around the globe, intrepid travel writer Stephanie Elizondo Griest followed the magnetic pull home -- only to discover that her native South Texas had been radically transformed in her absence. Ravaged by drug wars and barricaded by an eighteen-foot steel wall, her ancestral land had become the nation's foremost crossing ground for undocumented workers, many of whom perished along the way. The frequency of these...
24) Ribbon rescue
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A young girl unselfishly gives away the ribbons from her new dress to help various people on their way to a wedding
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 4
Description
In 1704, Mohawk Indians attack the frontier village of Deerfield, Massachusetts, kidnapping and marching over 100 residents, including seven-year-old Eunice Williams, to Canada where she is eventually adopted into a Mohawk family and remains there willingly for the rest of her life. Based on a true story.
27) Pauline Johnson
Author
Pub. Date
[1978]
Description
A biography of the nineteenth-century Canadian poet who gained fame through her one-woman shows which brought directly to the people her verses of her Mohawk heritage and of her country.
28) Sky Dancers
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
John Cloud takes a trip to New York City to visit his father, a Mohawk Indian steelworker working on the Empire State Building.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
A revealing portrait of Richard Oakes, the brilliant, charismatic Native American leader who was instrumental in the takeovers of Alcatraz, Fort Lawton, and Pit River and whose assassination in 1972 galvanized the Trail of Broken Treaties march on Washington, DC. The life of this pivotal Akwesasne Mohawk activist is explored in an important new biography based on extensive archival research and key interviews with activists and family members. Historian...
31) Beans
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Twelve-year-old Beans is on the edge. Torn between innocent childhood and delinquent adolescence, she is forced to grow up fast to become the tough Mohawk warrior that she needs to be during the Indigenous uprising known as The Oka Crisis, which tore Quebec and Canada apart for 78 tense days in the summer of 1990.