Lost at Windy River: A True Story of Survival

Lost at Windy River: A True Story of SurvivalIt takes courage and bravery to survive in the barrens. In 1944, thirteen year old Ilse Schweder got lost in a snowstorm while checking her family's trapline in northern Canada. This is the harrowing story of how a young Indigenous girl defies the odds and endures nine days alone in the unforgiving barrens. Ilse faces many challenges, including freezing temperatures, wild animals, snow blindness and frostbite. With no food or supplies, she relies on

At age six

and New Zealand—weave a narrative to explore issues of Indigenous health within four broad themes: ethics and history

With appendixes that include a timeline of pertinent events

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Mackenzie's dreams return her to a memory from before her sister Sabrina's untimely death: a weekend at the family's lakefront campsite

while the Lumbee people's struggle for justice and self-determination continues to transform our view of the American experience

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and a touching afterword from Elder Betty Ross herself

In 1894 Wisconsin game wardens Horace Martin and Josiah Hicks were dispatched to arrest Joe White

she must override her apprehension about leaving her hometown--and her rule to never get in somebody else's car--in order to discover the truth about the girl's whereabouts

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Examining the expansive nature of Indigenous gender representations in history