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402) Childrearing
Author
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Discover how Native American children learned to become adult members of their tribes, and explore the different ways that tribes raised their children.
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"This book traces the evolution of narrative art among Native nations of North America's Great Plains region, from historical hides, muslins, and ledger books to more than 50 contemporary works commissioned by the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI). Illustrating everything from war deeds and ceremonial events to pop culture, the selected artworks are as diverse as the individuals who created them. Plains narrative art took shape through...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Plymouth Rock has long stood as a symbol of the Pilgrims' journey to and settlement in America. But how much of the story surrounding it is true? What did the Pilgrims' arrival mean to the Wampanoag people who were already living there? What were the long-lasting effects of the interactions between the two groups? How did a seaside rock come to be associated with the Pilgrims' landing, and was it really part of their story at all? Readers will find...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
We Want Equal Rights! Is the story of remarkable women who laid the foundation for the modern women's movement and the American Indian nation that proved equality as possible. In 1850, these brave women challenged a culture that believed they were inferior to men. How did they envision such a world?
Pub. Date
2022
Description
The 1920s and 1930s brought many exciting and true adventures to the three Hazelwood brothers, Chester, Loren, and Melvin, on their family's ranch outside Pagosa Springs, Colorado. They had many of the adventures of those earlier pioneers of the 1880s and 1890s. There were Native Americans and mountain men, terrible snow storms and severe accidents, outlaws and crooked horse traders, and narrow escapes with locomotives. Trapping brought in much of...
409) The Great Death
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 5
Description
As their Alaskan village's only survivors of sickness brought by white men one winter early in the twentieth century, sisters Millie, aged thirteen, and Maura, ten, make their way south in hopes of finding someone alive.
410) Sacagawea
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A biography of Sacagawea, describing her childhood, kidnapping by an enemy tribe at age twelve, and service as an interpreter to Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery as they crossed the country to the Pacific Ocean.
412) The Native Americans
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.1 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Discusses the weapons used by Native Americans and their different means of warfare.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Growing up impoverished and shuttled between different households, it seemed life was bound to take a certain path for Eddie Chuculate. Despite the challenges he faced, his upbringing was rich with love and bountiful lessons from his Creek and Cherokee heritage, deep-rooted traditions he embraced even as he learned to live within the culture of white, small-town America that dominated his migratory childhood. Award-winning author Eddie Chuculate...
416) Immortal pleasures
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"An ancient Aztec vampire roams the modern world in search of vengeance and love in this seductive dark fantasy"--
Hundreds of years ago, she was known as La Malinche: a Nahua woman who translated for the conquistador Corťs. In the centuries since, her name has gone down in infamy as a traitor. But no one ever found out what happened to La Malinche after Corťs destroyed her people. In the ashes of the empire, she was reborn as Malinalli, an immortal...
417) The crimson cap
Author
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Description
In 1684, wearing his father's faded cap, eleven-year-old Pierre Talon joins explorer Rene-Robert Cavelier on an ill-fated expedition to seek the Mississippi River, but after the expedition falls apart Pierre, deathly ill, is taken in by Hasinai Indians. Includes historical facts.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
During the first half of the 19th century, as many as 100,000 Native Americans were relocated west of the Mississippi River from their homelands in the East. The best known of these forced emigrations was the Cherokee Removal of 1838. Christened Nu-No-Du-Na-Tlo-Hi-Lu -- literally "the Trail Where They Cried" -- by the Cherokees, it is remembered today as the Trail of Tears. In Voices from the Trial of Tears, editor Vicki Rozema re-creates this tragic...
420) The Buffalo Soldiers
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
An account of the exploits of the African Americans known as Buffalo Soldiers, focusing on their part in the conflict between the Indians and the settlers.
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