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The Medicine Bag by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve (1975)
Martin, a Native American boy in his early teens, visits his great-grandfather every summer at his South Dakota reservation. Martin and his sister talk proudly to their friends about the reservation. One day his great-grandfather shows up unexpectedly in Martin’s neighbourhood in Iowa.

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