Native American
A Native Lad: Benny Benson Tells Alaska’s Story, by Sarah Hurst
A Native Lad: Benny Benson Tells Alaska’s Story, by Sarah Hurst A Native Lad: Benny Benson Tells Alaska’s Story is based on the script of a play by Sarah Hurst, first performed at Tatitlek Community School in January 2010. The story consists of 16 scenes marking major events in Alaska history, narrated by Benny Benson,…
Read MoreRaven House Mouse Goes to Culture Camp, by Jan Steinbright
Raven House Mouse Goes to Culture Camp, by Jan Steinbright Kagaak, a mouse who has been adopted into a Tlingit clan in Haines, Alaska, stows away on a bus heading up the Chilkoot Valley to a culture camp, learns more about the Tlingit culture, and becomes significantly involved with the annual run of sockeye salmon…
Read MoreRaven House Mouse, by Jan Steinbright
Raven House Mouse, by Jan Steinbright The enchanting story of how a mouse came to live in a Tlingit (Indian) clan house in Haines, Alaska, and became part of the culture. When the mouse finds the Tlingit clan house, he thinks he’s sneaky enough to avoid being caught, but what he doesn’t know is that…
Read MoreThe Bentwood Box, by Nan McNutt
The Bentwood Box, by Nan McNutt Chris, a contemporary 14 yr. old Native American Tlingit boy, apprentices with his uncle who is designing and making a traditional northern Northwest Coast bentwood box. In the process of helping with the box, Chris has an adventure, which changes the course of his life. Nan’s McNutt’s introduction to…
Read MoreThe Button Blanket, by Nan McNutt
The Button Blanket, by Nan McNutt Anne, a young contemporary Kwakwaka’wakw (Kwakiutl) girl, is going to dance in the ceremonial house for the first time. But who will help make her button blanket robe to dance in? Who will design the special family crest for her robe? As she asks each member of her family,…
Read MoreThe Cedar Plank Mask, by Nan McNutt
The Cedar Plank Mask, by Nan McNutt Michael, a contemporary Makah boy from the west coast of Washington State, takes a museum field trip with his classmates to learn about Northwest Coast Native American masks and, especially, the West coast style of the Makah and Nuu-chah-nulth peoples. Little does he know that Grandpa has a…
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