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2) Hiawatha
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Verses from Longfellow's epic poem depict the boyhood of Hiawatha.
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
Compilation of information about North American Indians, with descriptions of 100 tribes and major languages, biographies from different regions and eras, overviews of significant topics, historical eras, and cultural traditions, and definitions of terms and events.
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Spirit of the Moon, a young Nez Perce woman, accompanies her stepfather, Coquin, when he sets out on a Hudson Bay Company fur trapping expedition in 1841, facing the natural dangers of the trail, battling renegade trappers, murderers, thieves, and Indians, and falling in love with the wrong man.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
The received idea of Native American history--as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's mega-bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee--has been that American Indian history essentially ended with the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. Not only did one hundred fifty Sioux die at the hands of the U. S. Cavalry, the sense was, but Native civilization did as well. Growing up Ojibwe on a reservation in Minnesota, training as an anthropologist, and researching...
9) The Indians
Author
Series
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
[1973]
Language
English
Description
Lavishly illustrated account of the lives, religion, customs, sports, homes, horses and history of the Indian tribes of the American West.
Author
Language
English
Description
Best-selling author Sandra Brown continues to capture an ever-growing audience with her heady, passionate romances. Her continuous presence on the New York Times best-seller list has proven her to be one of America's most beloved writers. When Miranda Price and her young son are kidnapped from a sightseeing train, she's prepared to risk her own life to protect her child. Dragged off to a Native American reservation and held hostage by the mysterious...
11) Lakota
Author
Language
English
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Description
Mastincala, the Rabbit Boy, is born in a tumultuous and uncertain time for his people, the Lakota. He is but a boy when his father is killed during the clash between the Lakota and Colonel Harney's army at Rosebud, and he vows to avenge his father's death.
Mastincala joins Crazy Horse and the Oglala on their rides against the Crow, fighting against the encroachment and overhunting of Big Horn country. He earns the name Tacante, Buffalo Heart,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a spellbinding novel of depth and sensitivity, award-winning author Kathleen Eagle masterfully weaves the richness of Native American folklore into a contemporary story of hope, courage, and the power of love to lift the human spirit.
Angela Prescott has pulled up stakes and moved halfway across the country, seeking refuge from a man who has made her life a nightmare. Starting over in an unfamiliar city, she's wary and keeps to herself, until...
13) Defiant chiefs
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Follows the attempts of some of the great Native American chiefs to preserve their lands from the encroaching white settlers and the U.S. government, discussing the Lakota, Cherokee, Apache, and Comanche tribes.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, this bestselling collection from master storyteller Sherman Alexie tackles love, loss, basketball-and everything in between The characters that populate the lyrical and affectionate tales in Ten Little Indians battle stereotypes and navigate the crossroads of culture in life off the reservation. Richard, the narrator of "Lawyer's League," grows up in Seattle the son of "an African American giant who...
20) Killing the white man's Indian: reinventing Native Americans at the end of the twentieth century
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
A study of politics and power on contemporary Indian reservations, dispelling the stereotype of the victimized Native American and arguing that the political sovereignty of some tribes has had damaging effects on surrounding communities.
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