Native American Twelve Days of Christmas
Native American Twelve Days of Christmas delightfully adapts the traditional English Christmas carol with items and traditions found in many Native American tribes.
Teaching Mindfulness
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This guidebook for educators—whether professional teachers or home-school parents—focuses on the importance of including mindfulness as part of the curriculum. Mindfulness helps children understand the power of choice, encourages them to recognize their feelings, and increases their ability to stay focused.
We Are the Ocean
Through the eyes of children and their doggie companions, they ask the question "what is the ocean?" Following the cycle of water throughout the planet, they discover that the ocean is a part of everything including themselves.
The Land Grab
Young Alfred Swallow uses his wits when he is intimidated at gun point by a bunch of hired thugs and when he lands in a rattle snake den. His determination to stop the corrupt land agent and help his family keep their land comes into focus when he involves people who know how to stop the land grab.
Whisper to the Sky
Sydney was a bully at her old school, but when she moves to a new school, the roles are reversed, and she becomes the person who is bullied.
The Day the Earth Rose Up
A tale of how the Seven Sisters, who ran away from a giant bear, were saved when their prayer was answered. The Seven Sisters shine on us every night as the Pleiades.
Defending Orcas
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Young adults explore why orcas’ captivity in marine parks is a poor substitute for life in the open ocean and performing creates unnatural stress no orca should endure.
The Land of the Great Turtles / ᎦᏙᎯ ᎠᏁᎲ ᏧᎾᏔᏂ ᏓᎦᏏ
A Cherokee origin story written in both Cherokee and English.
How the World Was Made / ᎡᎶᎯ ᎤᏙᏢᎿ ᏣᎳᎩ ᎧᏃᎮᏓ
A Cherokee creation story written in both Cherokee and English.
Making Waves
A great resource for alerting young adults to the destruction that infiltrates every aspect of ocean life.
Native Actors and Filmmakers
Biographies of Native Americans who tell their stories in film and on TV will inspire young people in the fields of entertainment and production.
Native Women Changing Their Worlds
Biographies of Native American women who are working for change in their communities.|The 12 Indigenous women featured in this book overcame unimaginable hardships—racial and gender discrimination, abuse and extreme poverty—only to rise to great heights in the fields of politics, science, education and community activism.
The First Fire
This Cherokee myth tells the story of how the small water spider could accomplish what larger animals could not.
Sacred Song of the Hermit Thrush
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A story steeped in the Mohawk tradition gives the legendary origins of the enchanting song of the hermit thrush. A fresh yet ancient way of teaching the value of honesty.
Native American Night Before Christmas
An innovative retelling of the classic Christmas tale, this full-color book takes a whimsical look at what Christmas Eve might be like for an American Indian family.
Autumn's Dawn
A Native girl struggles with becoming who she thinks she should be and accepting who she really is.
Taming Plastic
A primer on plastics for middle schoolers, with information on how plastics are made, what an enormous problem they are for the environment and what can be done to clean them up.
Found
Nick, a teenage Native American survival expert, needs to avoid being found by the outlaws in relentless pursuit of him. Can he stay safe until the odds are in his favor?
Standing Strong
When a suicidal Native American teen leaves her reservation to join a large-scale oil-pipeline protest, she gets caught up in a dangerous situation and goes through a life-changing transformation that sets her on a new path to become a Water Protector.
Danny Blackgoat, Dangerous Passage
Following the Navajo Long Walk of 1863, Danny Blackgoat risks his life to rescue his family from imprisonment at Fort Sumner, New Mexico.
Native Men of Courage
This is an inspiring book for Native American youth about contemporary, courageous men who have made a difference in their communities.
