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Author
Publisher
Fulcrum Pub
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
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Description
This is the story of Chipeta, a strong and wise woman who played a major role in the history of the Ute Indian tribe and the United States in the nineteenth century. She married Ouray, who was appointed chief of the Ute people by the United States government, and together they worked tirelessly to promote peace and negotiate on behalf of their people.
The true story of a Kiowa-Apache baby kidnapped by a Ute Indian tribe and raised among them.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Under a Triumphant Sky" is more than a bicycle narrative. It is a human story about facing your fears and overcoming adversity - all for the pursuit of a lifelong dream. Steve Garufi pedaled solo across America for forty-five days from Del Mar, California to Jekyll Island, Georgia.A thief stole his bike in Phoenix. A mechanical failure in the desert led to an angry meltdown. There were chasing dogs, flat tires, run-ins with semi-trucks, exhaustion...
Author
Language
English
Description
"No Native American groups placed more emphasis on the horse in their lives than did the Navajo and Apache of the Southwest. They Sang for Horses examines how storytellers, singers, medicine men, and painters created the animal's evolving symbolic significance by adapting existing folklore and cultural symbols. Exploring the horse's importance in ceremonies, songs, prayers, customers, and beliefs, Clark investigates the period of the horse's most...
188) The whispering wind
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1972]
Language
English
Description
The poetry of 14 students at the Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stackpole Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
The year 1865 was bloody on the Plains as various Indian tribes, including the Southern Cheyenne and the Southern Sioux, joined with their northern relatives to wage war on the white man. They sought revenge for the 1864 massacre at Sand Creek, when John Chivington and his Colorado volunteers nearly wiped out a village of Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho. The violence in eastern Colorado spread westward to Fort Laramie and Fort Caspar in southeastern...
197) Jubal Sackett
Author
Series
The Sacketts volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Restless explorer Jubal Sackett journeys westward into the vast, unmapped wilderness of seventeenth-century America and discovers the perils of the rugged frontier, a new way of life among the Indians, and the love of a beautiful Natchez Indian princess.