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21) Powwow highway
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
With nothing in common but their Native American heritage, two men begin a cross-country adventure filled with comedy and drama.
Author
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
A youth in a tribe of Plains Indians gives up a girlfriend to serve as a holy man's pipe bearer, first step in becoming a holy man himself. The novel follows his training in communicating with spirits and in preserving tribal legends and culture. By the author of Child of the Dead.
Author
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...
26) The Seminoles
Author
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
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Description
Discusses the history, lifestyle, customs, and current situation of the Seminoles.
29) The Iroquois
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Describes the history, social structure, and customs of the People of the Longhouse.
Author
Language
English
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Caldecott Medal & Honor Books - Present to 1938
The Moon and Beyond (Picture Books for Young Readers)
The Moon and Beyond (Picture Books for Young Readers)
Formats
Description
An adaptation of the Pueblo Indian myth which explains how the spirit of the Lord of the Sun was brought to the world of men.
31) Plains Indians
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Explains the origins, societies, culture, and destruction of the Plains Indians.
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Indian peoples made some four hundred treaties with the United States between the American Revolution and 1871, when Congress prohibited them. They signed nine treaties with the Confederacy, as well as countless others over the centuries with Spain, France, Britain, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, Canada, and even Russia, not to mention individual colonies and states. In retrospect, the treaties seem like well-ordered steps on the path of dispossession...
Author
Series
American girls collection volume 2
Language
English
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Description
After immigrating from Sweden to join relatives in an American prairie community, Kirsten endures the ordeal of a strange school through a secret friendship with an Indian girl.
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