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"It's 1956, and six-year-old Eddie Toma lives with his mother, Grace, and his little brother, Lewis, near the Salmon River on the far edge of the Okanagan Indian Reserve in the British Columbia Southern Interior. Grace, her friend Isabel, Isabel's husband Ray, and his nephew Gregory cross the border to work as summer farm labourers in Washington state. There Eddie is free to spend long days with Gregory exploring the farm: climbing a hill to watch...
2) Slash
Author
Publisher
Theytus Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
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"Slash poignantly traces the struggles, pain and alienation of a young Okanagan man who searches for truth and meaning in his life."--
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Publisher
Theytus Books
Language
English
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"Zoe and her dad see a little spotted sk'ʺYk'ʺ₎̓il't (fawn) curled up under an aspen tree. "Where is the sk'ʺYk'ʺ₎̓il't (fawn)'s mother?" Zoe asks her dad. Join Zoe on her quest for the deer, as she encounters animals and learns their syilx (Okanagan) names along the way."--Back cover.
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Publisher
Theytus Books
Pub. Date
c1991
Language
English
Description
Neekna and Chemai are two little girls growing up in the Okanagan Valley before the coming of the white man. Through these two friends we learn about the seasonal life pattern of the Okanagan Indian people, a tribe in the interior of British Columbia.
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Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[1981]
Language
English
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One of the first known novels by a Native American woman, Cogewea (1927) is the story of a half-blood girl caught between the worlds of Anglo ranchers and full-blood reservation Indians; between the craven and false-hearted easterner Alfred Densmore and James LaGrinder, a half-blood cowboy and the best rider on the Flathead; between book learning and the folk wisdom of her full-blood grandmother. The book combines authentic Indian lore with the circumstance...
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