Herman J Viola
9) Sitting Bull
Author
Series
Publisher
Raintree/Steck-Vaughn
Pub. Date
1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of the Native American who engineered the defeat of Custer and his troops at Little Big Horn and toured with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
10) Osceola
Author
Publisher
Raintree/Steck Vaughn
Pub. Date
1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of the American Indian leader who fought the United States government's attempts to remove the Seminoles from their homeland.
13) Warrior artists: historic Cheyenne and Kiowa Indian ledger art drawn by Making Medicine and Zotom
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
An annotated reproduction of one of the ledgers kept by Making Medicine and Zotom, two of a group of seventy Plains Indians who were imprisoned in St. Augustine, Florida from 1875 to 1878 for refusing to accept life on the reservation.
Author
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Highlights the military service and sacrifices of Native American soldiers and veterans in the U.S. Army, from the Revolutionary War and the Civil War, through World Wars I and II, to the wars in Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Tells the personal wartime stories of Native scouts and soldiers, including Code Talkers. Appropriate for young adult readers"--
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
A member of the Masai people describes his life as he grew up in a northern Kenya village, travelled to America to attend college, and became an elementary school teacher in Virginia.
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In a shockingly honest narrative, a former prisoner-of-war tells how her family, along with ten thousand other Dutch residents living in the Dutch East Indies were shipped off to interment camps where food rationing, terrible sanitary conditions, and an uncertain future were the norms for more than three years.