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Wisconsin First Nations Booklist
Discover books for teaching and learning about the American Indian Nations of Wisconsin.
Night Flying Woman: An Ojibway Narrative by Ignatia Broker
Recounts the life of her great-great-grandmother, Night Flying Woman, who was born in the mid-19th century and lived during a chaotic time of enormous change, uprootings, and loss for the Minnesota Ojibwe. But this story also tells of her people's great strength and continuity.
To Be the Main Leaders of Our People: A History of Minnesota Ojibwe Politics, 1825-1898 by Rebecca Kugel
In this volume, the Ojibwe "speak for themselves," as their words were recorded by government officials, Christian missionaries, fur traders, soldiers, lumbermen, homesteaders, and journalists. It expands the parameters of how oral traditions can be used in historical writing and sheds new light on a complex, but critical, series of events in ongoing relations between Native and non-Native people.
Living Our Language: Ojibwe Tales & Oral Histories by Anton Treuer
Based on interviews Treuer conducted with ten elders this anthology presents the elders' stories transcribed in Ojibwe with English translation on facing pages. These stories contain a wealth of information, including oral histories of the Anishinaabe people and personal reminiscences, educational tales, and humorous anecdotes.
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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
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Voices of the Winds
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A Place in El Paso: A Mexican-American Childhood by Gloria López-Stafford
This memoir of growing up in El Paso in the 1940s and 1950s creates an entire city: the way a barrio awakens in the early morning sun, the thrill of a rare desert snow, the taste of fruit-flavored raspadas on summer afternoons, the "money boys" who beg from commuters passing back and forth to Juárez, and the mischief of children entertaining themselves in the streets
Crossing Borders: Personal Essays by Sergio Troncoso
Sergio Troncoso writes a riveting collection of sixteen personal essays in which he seeks to connect the humanity of his Mexican family to people he meets on the East Coast, including his wife's Jewish kin. Raised in El Paso near the Texas-Mexico border, Troncoso crossed what seemed an even more imposing border when he left home to attend Harvard College.
El Paso Del Norte: Stories On The Border by Richard Yañez
The Chicano characters in Richard Yanez's debut story collection live in El Paso's Lower Valley but inhabit a number of borders-between two countries, two languages, and two cultures, between childhood and manhood, life and death.
The Heart Is Not a Size by Beth Kephart
A story about two friends who embark on a school trip to a Mexican town near the border of the United States. The main character, Georgia, is hoping that the newness of the experience will help her shed both the secret panic attacks she has been experiencing as well as her sense of herself as a “freakishly well-behaved” and predictable decision-maker.
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Enrique's Journey
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Cross Over Water
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