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| Winter 2008 | 08-01 |
In fiscal year 2007 NLS added thirty-nine titles to its Native American collection, which includes folklore, history, mythology, fiction, and works by Native American authors. This annual listing of titles is a finding aid for network librarians. All books are available in the formats noted below and will be announced in Braille Book Review or Talking Book Topics. The titles in braille will also be available to registered users through Web-Braille. Assigned book numbers are given with the title if available at the time of listing. Please note that some of the titles on the list are still in process.
Bruchac, Joseph. Wabi: A Hero’s Tale. RC 63363.
Bruchac, Joseph. Whisper in the Dark. RC 61487.
Carbone, Elisa Lynn. Blood on the River: James Town 1607. RC 63493.
Creel, Ann Howard. Under a Stand Still Moon. RC 63924.
Doherty, Kieran. To Conquer Is to Live: The Life of Captain John Smith of Jamestown. RC 63832.
Hermes, Patricia. Our Strange New Land. RC 61995.
Kadohata, Cynthia. Weedflower. RC 63258.
Karr, Kathleen. Worlds Apart. RC 64098.
Keoke, Emory Dean. Science and Technology. BR 16453. A title in the American Indian Contributions to the World series.
Keoke, Emory Dean. Trade, Transportation, and Warfare. BR 16439. A title in the American Indian Contributions to the World series.
Medicine Crow, Joseph, with Herman Viola. Counting Coup. RC 62442.
Meyer, Carolyn. Where the Broken Heart Still Beats: The Story of Cynthia Ann Parker. RC 63737.
Miller, Brandon Marie. Good Women of a Well-Blessed Land: Women’s Lives in Colonial America. RC 63809.
O’Dell, Scott. Island of the Blue Dolphins. RC 62762.
Phillip, Neil. The Great Circle: A History of the First Nations. RC 64075.
Stenhouse, Ted. A Dirty Deed. RC 64410.
Stenhouse, Ted. Across the Steel River. RC 63927.
Stenhouse, Ted. Murder on the Range. RC 64420.
Taschek, Karen. Horse of Seven Moons. RC 63479.
Tingle, Tim. Crossing Bok Chitto: A Choctaw Tale of Friendship and Freedom. BR 17243 (PRINT/BRAILLE).
Weber, EdNah New Rider. Rattlesnake Mesa: Stories from a Native American Childhood. RC 63346.
Calloway, Colin G. The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America. BR 16580.
Carlson, Lori Marie, ed. Moccasin Thunder: American Indian Stories for Today. RC 62313.
Childs, Craig Leland. House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest. RC 65104 in process.
Childs, Craig Leland. Soul of Nowhere: Traversing Grace in a Rugged Land. RC 63294.
Doss, James D. The Shadow Man. RC 62382. A title in the Charlie Moon Mystery series.
Doss, James D. The Witch’s Tongue. RC 62561. A title in the Charlie Moon Mystery series.
Frazier, Charles. Thirteen Moons. RC 63095.
Gear, Kathleen O’Neal. It Wakes in Me. RC 63584.
Grey, Zane. Greatest Indian Stories. RC 62740.
Hillerman, Tony. The Shape Shifter. BR 16879 and RC 63562. A title in the Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee Mystery series.
Porter, Donald Clayton. Choctaw. RC 63081. White Indian series, book 11.
Porter, Donald Clayton. Seminole. RC 63082. White Indian series, book 12.
Porter, Donald Clayton.War Drums. RC 63083. White Indian series, book 13.
Price, David. Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Heart of a New Nation. RC 62286.
Roundtree, Helen C. Pochahontas, Powhatan, Opechancanough: Three Indian Lives Changed by Jamestown. RC 65086 in process.
Sandoz, Mari. Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas; a
Biography. BR 16640.
Thom, Dark Rain. Warrior Woman: A Novel Based on the Life of Nonhelema, Shawnee Woman Chief. RC 64004.
NLS has added a Native American bibliography page to its Kids Zone web site. The page includes titles that have been added to the NLS collection since 1997 and is a compilation of the annual listings for juvenile titles from Focus on Native Americans. To access the page choose the "Select Bibliography of Books by and About Native Americans" link on the Kids Zone home page or see www.loc.gov/nls/children/bibliographies/native_americans.html.
Please note that there was only one issue of Focus on Native Americans in 2007 (07-01, winter 2007).
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