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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Discovering a cache of valuable Native American artifacts while appraising an estate in New Hampshire, Faye Travers investigates the history of a ceremonial drum, which possesses spiritual powers and changes the lives of people who encounter it
Author
Publisher
University Press of New England
Pub. Date
1980
Language
English
Description
This is an extremely useful book which one returns to again and again as a reference work. Its scope is the broadest, taking in every aspect of Indian life as the early explorers and colonists found it, from personal appearance and characteristics to diet and agriculture, social organization, and intertribal relations...
Author
Publisher
Lucent Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Discusses the history, daily lives, culture, religion, and conflicts of the Indians that lived in the northeastern part of what is now the United Staes, including the Algonquian, Abenaki, and Wampanoag tribes.
Author
Series
Woodward's historical volume no. 3-4
Publisher
Kraus Reprint Co
Pub. Date
1971
Language
English
8) Ghost Hawk
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the end of a winter-long journey into manhood, Little Hawk returns to find his village decimated by a white man's plague and soon, despite a fresh start, Little Hawk dies violently but his spirit remains trapped, seeing how his world changes.
Author
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
c1989
Language
English
Description
With the arrival of European explorers and settlers during the seventeenth century, Native American ways of life and the environment itself underwent radical alterations as human relationships to the land and ways of thinking about nature all changed. This colonial ecological revolution held sway until the nineteenth century, when New England's industrial production brought on a capitalist revolution that again remade the ecology, economy, and conceptions...
11) The Wampanoags
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents the cultural, social, and historical achievements of the Wampanoags.
12) Sorceress
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2003, c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Agnes, a Mohawk Indian who is descended from a line of shamanic healers, uses her own newly-discovered powers to uncover the story of her ancestor, a seventeenth-century New England English healer who fled charges of witchcraft to make her life with the local Indians.