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English
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Teased for his fair coloring, eleven-year-old Jimmy McClean travels with his maternal grandfather, Nyles High Eagle, to learn about his Lakota heritage while visiting places significant in the life of Crazy Horse, the nineteenth-century Lakota leader and warrior, in a tale that weaves the past with the present. Includes historical note and glossary.
4) Tallgrass
Author
Series
Great Plains saga volume 1
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
A saga of Kansas, from the arrival of the Conquisadors in 1541, to the blazing of the Santa Fe Trail in the early nineteenth century.
8) Makoons
Author
Series
Birchbark house volume 5
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Living with their Ojibwe family on the Great Plains of Dakota Territory in 1866, twin brothers Makoons and Chickadee must learn to become buffalo hunters, but Makoons has a vision that foretells great challenges that his family may not be able to overcome.
9) Mr. Tucket
Author
Series
Tucket adventures volume 1
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
In 1848, while on a wagon train headed for Oregon, fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is kidnapped by Pawnee Indians and then falls in with a one-armed trapper who teaches him how to live in the wild.
10) Beyond the ridge
Author
Pub. Date
1993, 1989.
Language
English
Description
At her death an elderly Plains Indian woman experiences the afterlife believed in by her people, while the surviving family members prepare her body according to their custom.
11) Cheyenne Rose
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Rose travels through the mirror in the magic attic to a Cheyenne village in the mid-1800s, where she discovers many customs of her ancestors, meets a pioneer girl, and has her courage tested by a raging prairie fire.
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
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Description
Cousins Lori and Lana, Lakota Indians who have a close but competitive relationship, learn about their heritage and culture throughout the year, and when a Laotian-Hmong girl comes to their school, they make friends with her and "adopt" her as one of their own.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 18
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Español
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) Chickadee
Author
Series
Birchbark house volume 4
Language
English
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In 1866, Omakayas's son Chickadee is kidnapped by two ne'er-do-well brothers from his own tribe and must make a daring escape, forge unlikely friendships, and set out on an exciting and dangerous journey to get back home.
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
They came by river and by wagon train, braving the endless distances of the Great Plains and the icy passes of the Sierra Nevada. They were men like Linus Rawlings, a restless survivor of Indian country who?d headed east to see the ocean but left his heart -- and his home -- in the West. They were women like Lilith Prescott, a smart, spirited beauty who fled her family and fell for a gambling man in the midst of a frontier gold boom. These pioneering...
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 18
Pub. Date
[1999]
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.
Author
Series
Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 2
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
Achinese
Description
A family travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home on the prairie, where they build a house, meet neighboring Indians, build a well, and fight a prairie
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In the frigid days of February, 1870, Caroline Ingalls, her husband Charles, and their little girls, Mary and Laura, leave the familiar comforts of the Big Woods of Wisconsin and head west to settle in a beautiful, unpredictable land full of promise and peril--the Kansas Indian Territory. The pioneer life is a hard one, especially for a pregnant woman with no friends or kin to turn to for comfort or help. The burden of work must be shouldered alone,...
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