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321) The Night Walker
Author
Pub. Date
2003, c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A young Native American boy leisurely exploring the countryside one afternoon becomes frightened after dark falls when noises begin to follow him home.
326) Pueblo
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Examines the government, religion, social structures, arts, and culture of the Pueblo people in the twenty-first century; discusses the tribe's history, legends, contributions to the world, and plans for the future; and includes quotations, sidebars, and illustrations.
327) Undaunted Courage
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 42
Formats
Description
Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the opening of the American West.
330) The color line
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Inspired by true events, this gorgeous, haunting novel intertwines the lives of two Black female artists more than a century apart, both outsiders in Italy. It was the middle of the nineteenth century when Lafanu Brown audaciously decided to become an artist. In the wake of the American Civil War, life was especially tough for Black women, but she didn't let that stop her. The daughter of a Chippewa woman and an African-Haitian man, Lafanu had the...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Tucker Ashley returns to his Black Hills ranch only to find that Indians have raided it. They've killed livestock and taken his best friend and business partner Jack captive. Tucker has no choice but to head out after the Indians. Meanwhile, Hack Reed, his nemesis from his recent prison stint, has just broken out of jail, and his gang of cutthroats is hot after Tucker. The Reed gang attacks the posse, killing everyone except their tracker, who narrowly...
Author
Series
Brides of Blessings volume 11
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"Known as "Snowy Owl" amongst her people, Kela Tukumu is less interested in taking a husband than she is in becoming the first medicine woman of her Miwok tribe. Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that she is rather fierce to behold -- taller and stronger than all the other women, and even many of the men...or maybe it is simply due to the terrible tragedy she heard all her life -- the one that took away her grieving mother before Kela...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Description
When Philadelphia naturalist Samuel George Morton died in 1851, no one cut off his head, boiled away its flesh, and added his grinning skull to a collection of crania. It would have been strange, but perhaps fitting, had Morton's skull wound up in a collector's cabinet, for Morton himself had collected hundreds of skulls over the course of a long career. Friends, diplomats, doctors, soldiers, and fellow naturalists sent him skulls they gathered from...
Author
Pub. Date
©2011
Description
We humans pride ourselves on our capacity to have ideas, but perhaps this pride is misplaced. Perhaps ideas have us. After all, ideas do appear to have a life of their own. Many biologists have already come to the opinion that our genes are selfish entities, tricking us into helping them to reproduce. Is it the same with our ideas? Jonnie Hughes, a science writer and documentary filmmaker, investigates the evolution of ideas in order to find out....
339) Native-American life
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Briefly explores the history and culture of Native Americans, including first-hand accounts about family life, ceremonies, crafts, and hunting.
Author
Series
Tay-Bodal mystery series volume 4
Pub. Date
2000
Description
Tay-bodal, a healer, detective, and member of the Rattle Band, must put his personal feelings aside when Wolf Blanket, the man who is trying to steal Tay's wife, is accused of murder--a crime that could set off war in the Kiowa tribe.
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