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Author
Publisher
Crowell-Collier Press
Pub. Date
[1962, c1961]
Language
English
Description
Account of the threat of an Indian war in 1915, growing out of the alleged murder of a Mexican by a Ute Indian, Tse-ne-gat, also called Everett Hatch.
Headlines carrying news of the war in Europe took second place one day in 1915 when the Denver Rocky Mountain News carried this eight-column streamer: INDIAN BATTLE RAGES, 3 DEAD, TOWN IS IN PERIL. The battle was the "Ute War"-the last struggle of the American Indian to save his lands from range-hungry...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Drawing on documentary sources and illustrated with classic photographs and engravings, this book presents a history of the First Nations, also called Native Americans, from their beginnings to the arrival of the Europeans to the resurgence of Native American cultures today.
10) The Hopi
Author
Publisher
Rourke Publications
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This book discusses the Huron, a group of five tribes of the Iroquoian cultural group. Index.
14) My brother
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Jamaica Kincaid's brother Devon Drew died of AIDS on January 19, 1996, at the age of thirty-three. Kincaid's incantatory, poetic, and often shockingly frank recounting of her brother's life and death is also a story of her family on the island of Antigua, a constellation centered on the powerful, sometimes threatening figure of the writer's mother. My Brother is an unblinking record of a life that ended too early, and it speaks volumes about the difficult...
15) Sacajawea
Author
Publisher
Avon
Language
English
Description
Recreates the life and legend of the Shoshoni Indian as she struggles to survive among hostile tribes, is forced to become the wife of a French trader, and plays a pivotal role in the journeys of Lewis and Clark.
Author
Publisher
Chartwell Books
Language
English
Description
Explores the history of the native peoples of North America, from the early arrival of humans from Asia and their migration through the continent, the first and subsequently devastating contacts with European explorers and settlers, to the present day plight of the surviving tribes and their attempts to adapt to modern society.
20) Cheyenne autumn
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Recounts the 1,500 mile trek of a band of Northern Cheyenne from an Oklahoma reservation in 1878 to their home on the Yellowstone.