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A counting book highlighting the harvest festival of the Woodland Indians from the Great Lakes Region.

Presents a history of the Chippewa tribe who settled in the northern Great Lakes regions of Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and North Dakota, and describes their early culture and spiritual life, customs, encounters with white settlers, and revival of Native American traditions.

Text and color illustrations present the daily life of the Anishinabe, a Native American nation of the Great Lakes region, covering their shelters, work, food, clothing, recreation, religious beliefs, and contact with Europeans.

Ashleigh Sneaux moves to an island in the Great Lakes where her newly divorced mom has purchased a bed-and-breakfast, and must learn to adapt to the cold weather, a much smaller school, and a completely unfamiliar dating scene.

In 1679, Pachelot, a very brave dog who serves as French explorer LaSalle's "right paw," catches a thief, makes friends with two young Indians, and sees what causes the disappearance of the Griffon, a ship LaSalle's crew built to explore the Great Lakes.

Explores the history and development of the Great Lakes and the role the region played in the development of the rest of the country.

Looks at the efforts of Nokomis Josephine Mandamin and her supporters to walk to the Great Lakes in the name of water conservation.

In this retelling of an Ojibwe Indian tale, a mother bear loses sight of her two cubs as they all attempt to escape a forest fire by swimming across Lake Michigan.

Shingebiss the duck bravely challenges the Winter Maker and manages to find enough food to survive a long, harsh winter.

While spending a week with her grandmother who, like her is a Chippewa Indian, Kimmy learns to make a dreamcatcher which allows the sleeper to have only sweet dreams.

Examines the government, religion, social structures, arts, and culture of the Potawatomi people in the twenty-first century; discusses the tribe's history, legends, contributions to the world, and plans for the future; and includes quotations, sidebars, and illustrations.

Focuses on learning to identify and count the numbers one through ten by counting how many dancers participate in the Indian powwow dance.

An introduction to the history, social life and customs, and present status of the Huron Indians, a tribe whose homelands centered around the Great Lakes region but now include Kansas and Oklahoma.

Presents the third in a series of novels in which frontiersman Natty Bumppo, nearing the end of his life, sets off for new adventure in the region of the Great Lakes.