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1) Bearstone
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
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A troubled Indian boy goes to live with an elderly rancher whose caring ways help the boy become a man.
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Moving with the seasons, the Utes covered vast areas of Colorado and surrounding states. Summer would find the tribes in the high country of the Rockies. In the fall, attention turned to gathering food and supplies and preparing for the harsh season ahead. Winters were spent in the semi-arid country of northern New Mexico and Utah, trading with neighbors. Springtime would find the various groups heading back to the high country of the Rockies. The...
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Charlie Moon mysteries volume 4
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For tribes of the American Southwest, the annual Sun Dance is among the most solemn and sacred of rituals. But lately Death has been an uninvited guest at the hallowed rite. Ute tribal policeman Charlie Moon is puzzled. The deceased Sun Dancers sustained no visible, life-ending injuries, so he is reluctant to call it murder -- though there is surely nothing "natural" about the sudden, inexplicable deaths of two strong and healthy men. Unlike her skeptical...
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"In The Ute Indians of Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico, Virginia McConnell Simmons provides a detailed and accurate account of this indigenous nation. Using government documents, archives, and local histories, Simmons has separated the often repeated and often incorrect hearsay from more accurate accounts of the Ute Indians." "Simmons' story begins with the Utes' origins and their first contact with the Spanish, from whom they obtained horses, and...
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Charlie Moon mysteries volume 6
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A lawman with a hardy appetite for life and an unshakable faith in the explicable, Southern Ute Acting Chief of Police Charlie Moon is not prepared to accept a purely supernatural explanation for the recent strange events of April 1. Nevertheless, something carried off Tommy Tonompicket and his unlikely drinking companion, research scientist William Pizinski, in the black chill of the Colorado night. And something ripped the head off a man outside
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Charlie Moon mysteries volume 3
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A woman of the Tohono O'otam tribe has been savagely - and ritually - murdered in Wyoming, outside the jurisdictions of Granite Creek, Colorado, Police Chief Scott Parris and Ute tribal policeman Charlie Moon. But a brutal, unprovoked assault by the suspected killer on one of Parris's detectives - and the dark, unsettling visions of Charlie's shaman aunt, Daisy Perika - are pulling two dedicated lawmen and an aging Native American mystic into the...
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Charlie Moon mysteries volume 5
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The world of Daisy Perika is a realm of shadows, omens, and restless spirits. In tribal policeman Charlie Moon's world, good and evil manifest themselves in more explainable, human ways. Yet the irascible and Ute shaman and her huge, good-natured nephew inhabit the same hard and lonely Colorado country. And now the parched earth has yielded up the remains of a gargantuan prehistoric beast on the site of a failed dude ranch - a find so enormous scientific...
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Charlie Moon mysteries volume 7
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Charlie Moon is treading on sacred ground...and he may live to regret it. The two sandstone monoliths -- a pair of massive natural giants towering over the southern Colorado landscape -- that stand before the hulking, good-natured former policeman turned rancher are wrapped in rich tribal lore and dark, ancient mystery. To the local Navajo, Pueblo, and Ute, they are the Twin War Gods, sons of the moon goddess White Shell Woman. Legends tell of strange...
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Charlie Moon mysteries volume 14
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2009
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Even with some of the toughest hombres and nastiest outlaws roaming the Southwest, sometime tribal investigator Charlie Moon does a fair job on the side of the good guys. So it's no surprise that he gets the call when the widow Loyola Montoya starts making a fuss about witches. She swears there's a whole midnight brood lurking in the woods just off her property, mocking her with lewd songs and harassing her with the carcasses of dead animals. When...
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Charlie Moon mysteries volume 13
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[2008]
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Ute rancher and part-time tribal investigator Charlie Moon's plans for marital bliss with FBI Special Agent Lila Mae McTeague are put on hold thanks to Charlie's cantankerous aunt, her sixteen-year-old niece, and their visions of a brutally murdered woman.
16) Colorado Commission of Indian Affairs health and wellness roundtable, August 19-20, 2013 Ignacio, CO
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2013.
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The Health and Wellness Roundtable was established to build capacity and augment the effectiveness of funding designated toward health initiatives. Specifically, the goals of the Roundtable are to identify the top objectives of both Ute Tribes and to facilitate communication through an open discussion and dialogue.
17) Beardance
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
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While accompanying an elderly rancher on a trip into the San Juan Mountains, Cloyd, a Ute Indian boy, tries to help two orphaned grizzly cubs survive the winter and, at the same time, completes his spirit mission. Sequel to "Bearstone."
18) Dead soul
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dash of humor and a sprinkling of romance season Doss's eighth Charlie Moon mystery (after 2002's White Shell Woman). The part-time Ute tribal investigator and full-time rancher looks into the death of fellow tribesman Billy Smoke, murdered during an assault that left Billy's high-profile employer, Senator Patch Davidson, permanently crippled. An explosion at a new airport adds to the body count. Meanwhile, Charlie's acid-tongued Aunt Daisy, a shaman...
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Charlie Moon mysteries volume 15
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[2010]
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Struggling with hard times on his Colorado ranch, Charlie Moon becomes involved in a potentially lucrative wager between his best friend, police chief Scott Parish, and self-proclaimed psychic investor Samuel Reed, who bets that Parish will not be able to prevent Reed's imminent murder.