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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally-recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous...
83) Star Boy
Publisher
Bradbury Press
Pub. Date
c1983.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[32] pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Relates the Blackfoot Indian legend in which Star Boy gains the Sun's forgiveness for his mother's disobedience and is allowed to return to the Sky World.
Author
Series
High country trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Large print edition
Physical Desc
413 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"All Zach Hannah wants is to be left alone, high in the mountains with his bride, Morning Sky. But as long as Sean Devlin is alive, Zach will find no peace. Now Zach has to track down this man, the former friend who stole his wife and left him to die at the hands of his mortal enemies, the Blackfoot Indians. It's an odyssey that will lead him along the Santa Fe Trail and back to the high country, where the mountains echo with gunfire. As mountain...
86) Legacy: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Danielle Steel's Hotel Vendome.
This compelling, centuries-spanning novel brilliantly interweaves the lives of two women—a writer working in the heart of modern academia and a daring young Sioux Indian on an incredible journey in the eighteenth century. The result is an unforgettable story of courage in the face of the unknown.
LEGACY
At the age of thirty-eight,
Author
Series
Public education volume no. 9
Publisher
Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas
Pub. Date
1984
Physical Desc
144 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
89) The great chiefs
Series
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
c1975
Physical Desc
240 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 99 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A hauntingly beautiful film that is true to the lyrical and unflinching spirit of James Welch's classic 1974 novel of Native American life. Virgil First Raise (Chaske Spencer, the Twilight trilogy) wakes in a ditch on the hardscrabble plains of Montana. He stumbles home to his ranch on the reservation only to learn that his wife, Agnes (Julia Jones), has left him. Worse, she's stolen his beloved rifle. Virgil sets out to find her, beginning an odyssey...
93) Thunderstick
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1993
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
182 pages : genealogical table ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
With time comes change, and even as the cycles of life roll on boys become men and old men die--a mysterious and menacing new element has entered the lives of the Elk-dog People.
95) Cree
Author
Series
Publisher
Big Buddy Books, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (34 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), map, portraits.
Language
English
Description
This title introduces readers to the Cree people. Text covers traditional ways of life, including social structure, homes, food, art, clothing, and more. Also discussed is contact with Europeans and American settlers, as well as how the people keep their culture alive today.
Author
Language
English
Description
From the acclaimed Ojibwe author and professor Anton Treuer comes an essential book of questions and answers for Native and non-Native young readers alike. Ranging from "Why is there such a fuss about nonnative people wearing Indian costumes for Halloween?" to "Why is it called a 'traditional Indian fry bread taco'?" to "What's it like for natives who don't look native?" to "Why are Indians so often imagined rather than understood?", and beyond, Everything...
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
During the 19th century, the United States gained control over large amounts of territory in western North America, and encouraged Americans to settle these frontier lands. However, their arrival disrupted the many Native American tribes living in the West, resulting in numerous clashes and small conflicts throughout the region. Many of the so-called Indian Wars occurred during the period between 1866 and 1890, as the U.S. government attempted to...
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