11 Top nonfiction books like Indigenous Children’s Survivance in Public Schools (ISSN) by Leilani Sabzalian

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Indigenous Children’s Survivance in Public Schools (ISSN)

By: Leilani Sabzalian

4.60

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

Indigenous Children’s Survivance in Public Schools examines the cultural, social, and political ter…

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1. Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods

By: Shawn Wilson , Shawn Wilson

2.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

Describing a research paradigm shared by indigenous scholars in Canada and Australia, this study de… read more

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  • nonfiction

2. Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers

By: Barbara Ehrenreich , Deirdre English

3.96

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Women have always been healers, and medicine has always been an arena of struggle between female pr… read more

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3. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples

By: Linda Tuhiwai Smith

4.25

Format: None pages,

From the vantage point of the colonized, the term 'research' is inextricably linked with European c… read more

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4. Chasing Lincoln's Killer

By: James L. Swanson

3.50

Format: 364 pages,

Based on rare archival material, obscure trial manuscripts, and interviews with relatives of the co… read more

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5. Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

By: Robin Wall Kimmerer

4.04

Format: 226 pages, Hardcover

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer as been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of sci… read more

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6. Madhouse at the End of the Earth

By: Julian Sancton

4.27

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

In August 1897, the young Belgian commandant Adrien de Gerlache set sail for a three-year expeditio… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Among the greatest threats future travelers to Mars are likely to face is an interplanetary version of winter over-syndrome. The unknown icescapes around the earth poles, particularly Antarctica, see…"

-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth

"Cook referred to the symptoms collectively as polar anemia. Researchers today use the term winter over-syndrome. But it's essentially the same thing. A prevailing theory suggests it's a form of hypot…"

-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth

"But in emphasizing the likelihood of a connection between winter over-syndrome and what is now known as seasonal effective disorder, a variation in mood that correlates with a dwindling of daylight h…"

-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth

"Note: Dr. Lawrence Polinkis who analyzed clinical data from American men and women at Antarctica's Mcmurdo station Amundsen Scott's South Pole station posits specifically that the memory loss and oth…"

-Julian Sancton, Madhouse at the End of the Earth

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7. An American Sunrise

By: Joy Harjo

4.28

Format: 116 pages, Hardcover

National Bestseller A stunning new volume from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the Un… read more

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  • indigenous
"Gather strength, pull it in Be right where you are."

-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise

"The songs of the guardians of silence are the most powerful—"

-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise

"History will always find you, and wrap you In its thousand arms."

-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise

" We will keep going despite dark Or a madman in a white house dream. "

-Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise

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8. Wandering Stars

By: Tommy Orange

3.89

Format: 315 pages, Hardcover

The eagerly awaited follow-up to Pulitzer Prize-finalist Tommy Orange’s breakout best seller There … read more

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  • indigenous
"And in the year 1924 Indian citizenship will have been granted, even though they will mean to dissolve tribes by giving citizenship, dissolve being another word for disappearance, a kind of chemical …"

-Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars

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9. Gender Queer

By: Maia Kobabe

4.28

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would … read more

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  • nonfiction
"I don't"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

"My deepest emotional relationships have always been with women. Did that mean I was a lesbian? But my sexual fantasies involved two male partners. Was I a gay boy tapped in a girl's body? The knowled…"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

"Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to live in the place they were born, while others must make a journey to reach the climate in which they…"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

"As I pondered a pronoun change, I began to think of gender less as a scale and more as a landscape. Some people are born in the mountains, while others are born by the sea. Some people are happy to l…"

-Maia Kobabe, Gender Queer

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10. Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

By: Cathy Park Hong

4.21

Format: 209 pages, Hardcover

Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose the trut… read more

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  • nonfiction
"When I hear the phrase “Asians are next in line to be white,"

-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

"The avant-garde genealogy could be tracked through stories of bad-boy white artists who “got away with it,"

-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

"the curse of anyone nonwhite is that you are so busy arguing what you're not that you never arrive at what you are."

-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

"Hollywood is still so racist against Asians that when there’s a rare Asian extra in a film, I tense up for the chinky joke and relax when there isn’t one."

-Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning

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11. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

By: John Vaillant

4.35

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey

12. Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto

By: Tricia Hersey

4.08

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Far too many of us have claimed productivity as the cornerstone of success. Brainwashed by capitali… read more

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  • nonfiction
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13. The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

By: N.K. Jemisin

4.10

Format: 357 pages, Hardcover

Four-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. Jemisin crafts a glorious t… read more

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"Bel's got a crush on NY1's Pat Kiernan, so he watches news every morning on the TV in the common area."

-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

"You said it yourself: New York is rude. We'll give you the shirt off our backs and our last subway card swipe if you're lost, but step to us with wild accusations about things that aren't our fault a…"

-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

"He twitches through Times Square, resisting the urge to gawk like a tourist, groaning in native-New-Yorker frustration when the tourists get in his way—but in an eyeblink he's at Fourteenth Street, h…"

-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

"He moves to stand on a nearby subway grate, through which he can hear a 1 train idling on the platform below. He spreads his hands to feel the gentle waft of warm, funky-smelling subway air along his…"

-N.K. Jemisin, The World We Make (Great Cities, #2)

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14. We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom

By: Bettina L. Love

4.54

Format: 200 pages, Hardcover

Drawing on personal stories, research, and historical events, an esteemed educator offers a vision … read more

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  • nonfiction
"When you understand how these theories function, when they become your North Star, you understand why progress is so hard and why survival is a constant struggle. Theories are more than just academic…"

-Bettina L. Love, We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom

"The four major testing companies—Pearson Education, Educational Testing Service, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and McGraw Hill—make $2 billion a year in revenue while spending $20 million a year lobbyin…"

-Bettina L. Love, We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom

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15. You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight

By: Kalynn Bayron

3.59

Format: 230 pages, Hardcover

At Camp Mirror Lake, terror is the name of the game . . . but can you survive the night?This heart-… read more

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"I turn my Black ass right around and book it back to my cabin, where I close and lock the door."

-Kalynn Bayron, You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight

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16. VenCo

By: Cherie Dimaline

3.79

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Lucky St. James, a Métis millennial living with her cantankerous but loving grandmother Stella, is … read more

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  • indigenous
"It felt like the drunken part of falling in love, the erratic and uncompromising compulsion that made you do dumb shit and your best shit at the same time. She had to stop herself from running. She h…"

-Cherie Dimaline, VenCo

"Throughout history, witches have been the stand-ins for all people who have felt 'outside' or 'different.' I say, fuck it -- go outside, be different, be so different they have to loosen their grip o…"

-Cherie Dimaline, VenCo

"She wondered if every place in New Orleans had a secret garden, if every place was so witchy and beautiful. And for the first time, she was filled with an enormous pride for who she was-- what she wa…"

-Cherie Dimaline, VenCo

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17. The Bullet Swallower

By: Elizabeth Gonzalez James

3.79

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A dazzling magical realism western in the vein of Cormac McCarthy meets Gabriel García Márquez, The… read more

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18. Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

By: Patty Krawec

4.58

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

We find our way forward by going back. The invented history of the Western world is crumbling fast,… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • indigenous
"Blood quantum is a race theory that still forms the basis for legal Indian status in the United States and Canada."

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"Each of these terms is correct and wrong, and it is likely that whatever term you use will at some point be corrected by somebody else to a term they think is more appropriate. The best thing to do i…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"Settlers and migrants and the forcibly displanted get worried when Native people start talking about Land Back. What about their house? Where will they go? Unable to imagine any scenario other than w…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"It isn't wrong to think about your ancestors, to hear their stories and understand where they came from. And if your ancestors have been in the United States or Canada for a long period of time, it i…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

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19. Indigenous Methodologies: Characteristics, Conversations, and Contexts

By: Margaret Kovach

4.53

Format: 207 pages, Hardcover

What are Indigenous research methodologies, and how do they unfold? Indigenous methodologies flow f… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • indigenous
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20. Indigenous Children’s Survivance in Public Schools (ISSN)

By: Leilani Sabzalian

4.60

Format: 268 pages, Kindle Edition

Indigenous Children’s Survivance in Public Schools examines the cultural, social, and political ter… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • indigenous
Cover of Critical Race Theory in Education: All God's Children Got a Song by Adrienne D. Dixson

21. Critical Race Theory in Education: All God's Children Got a Song

By: Adrienne D. Dixson

4.08

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Although Critical Race Theory (CRT) has been used to analyze difficult issues of race and racism in… read more

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