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1) Ancient ones
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Language
English
Description
The unearthing of what seems to be the 14,000-year-old skeleton of a male Caucasian from an Oregon riverbank raises important cultural issues in Mitchell's latest book (after 2000's Spirit Sickness) about Bureau of Indian Affairs Investigator Emmett Parker and FBI Special Agent Anna Turnipseed, who are both part-Native American. Not only does the discovery go against most theories of when Caucasians arrived in the area, it also looks as though Native...
2) Oregon
Author
Series
Publisher
Raintree-Steck Vaughn
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents the history, resources, famous citizens, and points of interest in the Beaver State.
3) Modoc
Author
Publisher
ABDO Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Photographs and simple text provide a brief introduction to the history, culture, traditions, and people of the Modoc Indians.
Author
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The practice of ceremony offers ways to build relationships between the land and its beings, reflecting change while drawing upon deep relationships going back millennia. Ceremony may involve intricate and spectacular regalia but may also involve simple tools, such as a plastic bucket for harvesting huckleberries or a river rock that holds heat for sweat. The Art of Ceremony provides a contemporary and historical overview of the nine federally recognized...
Author
Series
Yale Chronicles of America volume 22
Publisher
Glasgow, Brook
Pub. Date
c1920
Language
English
Author
Series
Willamette brides volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After years of schooling on the East Coast, Constance Browning returns to Oregon and the reservation where she grew up with her missionary parents. She is accompanied by Thomas Lowell, her best friend and colleague, and together they embark on a project to catalogue the native peoples of Oregon for the Bureau of American Ethnology. But Connie and Tom have another purpose--to prove her parents are not involved in a secret conspiracy to goad the oppressed...
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In 1911, when her family leaves the reservation to live and work on a large Oregon ranch, ten-year-old Jessie decides to forget her Nez Perce upbringing only to realize its true value when she relies on traditional skills to find a lost Appaloosa foal and protect it from being attacked by a cougar.
Author
Publisher
Bonneville Books, an imprint of Cedar Fort
Pub. Date
[2012], ♭2012
Language
English
Description
Angry at his parents for sending him to stay with crazy Uncle Bart at Crater Lake National Park, Ethan discovers that he will do anything to get them back after they, and all of the other adults in the park, get swallowed into the earth.
13) Chief Joseph
Author
Series
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
©2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of Chief Joseph, leader of the Nez Perce people in the late 1800s, including his childhood, the battles his tribe fought in hopes of remaining on their land, and their eventual removal to reservations.
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