native american children

"Dawn Quigley (Ojibwe) tells the story of urban Native kids who find strength in connection with those who came before and in the hope that lets them take flight"--Provided by publisher.

"Sydney never thought she would be the new girl at school, but when she moves to Minneapolis, everything changes. At her old school on the reservation, almost all the kids were Indigenous, and she was known as a tough bully. Now, at her new school of her, which has only a few Indigenous kids, she wonders if she will fit in"--Amazon.

In 1980s rural Oklahoma, a fifteen-year-old Cherokee boy named Sequoyah comes of age in the foster care system while his single mother is in jail. He lives with the Troutt family and is literally scarred by his mother's substance abuse. When he meets seventeen-year-old Rosemary, a troubled artist who also lives with the family, the two bond over their shared Native American background and foster care experiences. Their feelings for each other grow, but the pain of their pasts and their present situation threaten their happiness.

Taylor, a poor Kentuckian, makes her way west with an abandoned baby girl and stops in Tucson. There she finds friends and discovers resources in apparently empty places.

Uses question and answer format to describe life for Indian children long ago, as they learned to preserve their culture and prepared for adulthood.

Looks at the life of eleven-year-old Christopher Cote, an Osage boy from northeast Oklahoma, following him as he goes fishing, attends school, learns to play the trombone, studies the language of his people, and participates in the annual I'n-lon-shka Dances on the Osage Reservation.

Chronicles the Native American's forced assimilation into white man's culture between 1880 and 1980 and provides a comprehensive study of the overall effects upon the lives of those children who were taken from their families.

Native American children reveal a personal glimpse of their lives through their photographs of families and homes, friends, animals, and landscapes.

Twelve-year-old Rosa's excitement over going to the city with her father turns to despair when she realizes he has been forced to sell her into service as a maid, and her life continues on a downward spiral when she becomes pregnant by her abusive master and is thrown out into the streets to live or die as the gods may choose.