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1) There there
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary fiction. Tommy Orange's There There introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career. "We all came to the powwow for different reasons. The messy, dangling threads of our lives got pulled into a braid--tied to the back of everything...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The latest installment of the multimillion-selling Killing series is a gripping journey through the American West and the historic clashes between Native Americans and settlers.
The bloody Battle of Tippecanoe was only the beginning. It’s 1811 and President James Madison has ordered the destruction of Shawnee warrior chief Tecumseh’s alliance of tribes in the Great Lakes region. But while General William Henry Harrison would win this fight, the...
Author
Publisher
Ziegler Printing
Pub. Date
1927
Language
English
Description
A story of the part played by the American Indian in the history of Pennsylvania, based primarily on the Pennsylvania Archives and colonial records and built around the outstanding Chiefs. Reprinted in 1994 by Wennawoods Publishing, Lewisburg, PA.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
As children help a Native American grandmother make fry bread, delves into the history, social ways, foodways, and politics of America's 573 recognized Indian tribes.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 315 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle,where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star’s son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is...
8) Crazy Horse
Author
Publisher
Viking/Lipper Book
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
148 p.; 20 cm.
Language
English
9) Tepees
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
10) Indian no more
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
211 pages : illustration ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
When Regina's Umpqua tribe is legally terminated and her family must relocate from Oregon to Los Angeles, she goes on a quest to understand her identity as an Indian despite being so far from home.
Author
Series
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
[c1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
121p illus
Language
English
Description
While staying on a Navajo reservation, the Aldens uncover some artifacts that may be evidence of an ancient village, artifacts that soon turn up missing
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The magic tree house takes Jack and his sister Annie to the Great Plains where they learn about the life of the Lakota Indians.
15) Council fires on the upper Ohio: a narrative of Indian affairs in the upper Ohio Valley until 1795
Author
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Pub. Date
1940
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Wampanoag children listen as their grandmother tells them the story about how Weeachumun (the wise Corn) asked local Native Americans to show the newcomers how to grow food to yield a good harvest--Keepunumuk--in 1621.
18) Native America
Author
Publisher
Mason Crest Publishers
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
64 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the history of various costumes worn by Native Americans.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Bestselling historian and Pulitzer-prize finalist H. W. Brands follows the lives and battles of General William Tecumseh Sherman and Apache warrior Geronimo to tell the story of the Indian Wars and the final fight for control of the American continent"--
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Company
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
73 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1764, Kaya greatly admires a courageous and kind young woman in her Nez Perc�e village and wants to be worthy of her respect. Includes historical notes on the winter activities of the Nez Perc�e Indians, including ceremonies and crafts.