reservations

Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Native American is the school mascot.

Long before Europeans arrived in the Americas, Native Americans maintained bitter rivalries and from time to time shed one another's blood. Native American warfare took different forms and was fought for different reasons.

When thirteen-year-old Reanna's older sister Chelsea goes missing on her way home from school, each member of their Ojibwe family grieves her loss in a different way and struggles to find closure. Reanna's mother flees the reservation and its memories, and Reanna and her brother Theo go to live with their father. Reanna leans on her Ojibwe traditions for comfort, and feels Chelsea's presence all around her, especially when she's wearing Chelsea's regalia and participating in traditional dancing. Although the family gets no easy answers about Chelsea's disappearance, they come to terms with her loss.

"Since moving to the Blackfeet Reservation with her parents, Mara Racette has felt like an outsider, taunted by her tight-knit classmates for growing up far away. So when a local girl includes Mara in a traditional Blackfeet giveaway to honor her missing sister, Mara thinks she'll finally make some friends. Instead, a girl from the giveaway, Samantha White Tail, is found murdered. Because the four members of the giveaway group were the last to see Samantha alive, each becomes a person of interest in the investigation: New girl Mara, who hated Samantha for being particularly cruel. Grief-stricken Loren Arnoux, who was Samantha's best friend until Loren's sister's disappearance drove a wedge between them. Class clown Brody Clark, whose unreciprocated crush on Samantha is an open secret. And tough guy Eli First Kill, who has his own complicated history with Samantha. Despite deep mistrust, the four must now take matters into their own hands and clear their names. Even though one of them may be the murderer"--Provided by publisher.

Amanda and Kara are cousins and best friends in an intertribal Native American family; but Kara's family leaves the city and moves back to the Rez, making both girls sad--but the summer reunion reminds them that they will always be cousins.

"After being caught stealing one too many times, Benjamin Waterfalls is sent to a 'boot camp' at the Ojibwe reservation where he searches for answers as he tries to turn his life around and embrace this second chance"--OCLC.

Amanda and Kara are cousins and best friends in an intertribal Native American family, but Kara's family leaves the city and moves back to the Rez, making both girls sad--but the summer reunion reminds them that they will always be cousins.

Readers will learn about Maria Tallchief and what inspired her to dance while watching Osage dancers as a child in Oklahoma.

Before European explorers arrived in the Americas, the Shoshone lived in present-day Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, California, and Nevada. Readers of this accessible history will appreciate learning what everyday life was like for this nomadic people and how western expansion in the United States changed that way of life forever. They'll follow the Shoshone onto reservations and into modern times, discovering how they've kept their vibrant culture alive. Historic images and fact boxes enhance the curriculum-supporting content.

When Bugz, who is caught between the worlds of life on the Rez and the virtual world, meets Feng, they form an instant bond as outsiders and gamers and must both grapple with the impact of family challenges and community trauma.