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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Black Elk Speaks" is the powerful and inspirational story of the Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk and his people during the momentous twilight years of the 19th century, as told to distinguished poet, writer, and critic Neihardt in 1930.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
#18 The magic tree house takes Jack and his sister Annie to the Great Plains, where they learn about the life of the Lakota Indians.
Author
Series
Spanish bit saga volume 3
Language
English
Description
A Spanish father searches for his long-lost son north of the Mexican colonies; his son, meanwhile, has become chief of his kidnapper's tribe. When the father falls into the hands of his son's tribe's greatest enemy, trouble brews.
12) Buffalo medicine
Author
Series
Spanish bit saga volume 4
Language
English
Description
The younger son of a legendary chief must make his own contribution to the People by learning the way of the buffalo from an ancient medicine man.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1970]
Language
English
Description
This vivid documentary of one of the most shameful episodes in American History, Stephen Longstreet shows just how different the two cultures were and how hard the Indian was willing to fight to preserve his own way of life. With detailed accounts of such famous encounters as the Sioux Uprising at New Ulm, the Battle of Wounded Knee, the Fetterman and Sand Creek Massacres, Custer and the Little Big Horn, the Battle of the Lava Beds, and all the other...
14) Soaring Eagle
Author
Series
Santa Fe Trail trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Julio, a thirteen-year-old boy in 1845, finds friendship and a clue to his identity while living with the Cheyenne tribe that rescued him on the Santa Fe Trail.
15) Beyond the ridge
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
At her death an elderly Plains Indian woman experiences the afterlife believed in by her people, while the surviving family members prepare her body according to their customs.
Author
Series
Spanish bit saga volume 2
Language
English
Description
Before the outsider, now Chief Heads Off, brought the Elk Dog to The People their strategy had always been to flee or hide from their mortal enemies, the Head Splitters.
Author
Series
Spanish bit saga volume 18
Language
English
Description
To limit the influence of the French along the Mississippi River, the Spanish send out an expedition to capture Indians allied with the French. The result is a massacre by the Pawnee. A young Spanish captive is a slave at first, but later marries into the Pawnee tribe. This is the eighteenth novel in the popular Spanish Bit series that chronicles early contact between native Americans and white settlers and explorers.
19) Thunderstick
Author
Series
Spanish bit saga volume 21
Language
English
Description
Singing Wolf, son of Elk-dog tribe leader Walks in the Sun, has reached manhood. He has proved himself on his first hunt and looks forward to marrying his childhood friend Rain. When a young warrior from another tribe arrives with a powerful magic, Singing Wolf realizes he has a rival for both tribal leadership and the affections of Rain.
Author
Series
A Bison book volume BB129
Language
English
Description
These are Indians' stories, pictures of Indian life drawn by Indian artists, and showing this life from the Indian's point of view.