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English
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"The Arizona Clan" is an enthralling and epic Western saga that brings to life the untamed spirit of the American frontier. Penned by a talented author celebrated for his mastery of the Western genre, this captivating novel follows the riveting journey of the Arizona clan, a tight-knit family of settlers determined to carve out a life amidst the harsh and dangerous landscapes. At its core is the story of the Arizona clan, led by a fearless patriarch,...
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2016
Language
English
Description
In a ten-film collection, Dakota American Adventures covers a lot of ground in telling the saga of the Old West from exploration and settlement to gunfights and Indian wars. These are the deeds that changed the wild frontier forever.
4) Brother Bear
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
When an impulsive boy named Kenai is magically transformed into a bear he must literally walk in anoter's shoes until he learns a some valuable life lessons.
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.
6) Hondo
Publisher
Paramount Studio
Pub. Date
1953, 2005
Language
English
Description
Based on the Louis L'Amour story "The Gift of Cochise," this sparkling western has Wayne as a half-Indian Cavalry scout who, with his feral dog companion, finds a young woman and her son living on a isolated ranch in unfriendly Apache country.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"1989, Lamesa, Texas. A small west Texas town driven by oil and cotton-and a place where everyone knows everyone else's business. So it goes for Tolly Driver, a good kid with more potential than application, seventeen, and about to be cursed to kill for revenge. Here Stephen Graham Jones explores the Texas he grew up in, the unfairness of being on the outside, through the slasher horror he lives but from the perspective of the killer, Tolly, writing...
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Publisher
Teacher Created Resources
Pub. Date
2007, c1991
Language
English
Description
When his father returns East to collect the rest of the family, 13-year-old Matt is left alone to guard his family's newly built homestead. One day, Matt is brutally stung when he robs a bee tree for honey. He returns to consciousness to discover that his many stings have been treated by an old Native American and his grandson.
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English
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"Riding shotgun, Red Ryan leads a doomed stagecoach of the damned on the longest, deadliest journey of his life... 5 PASSENGERS. 400 MILES. 1,000 WAYS TO DIE. According to local legend, the stagecoach known as the Gray Ghost is either haunted, cursed, or just plain unlucky. Each of its last three drivers and three more riding shotgun came to a violent, bloody end. And now it's Red Ryan's turn to guard five foolhardy passengers on the stage's next-and...
Author
Publisher
Bear Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Immersed in the tapestry of the 1800's landscape evolves the struggles, love, friendships, family and the courage of this true American hero. For 32 years Deputy US Marshall Bass Reeves swept across Indian Territory like a whirlwind of justice.
11) On the rez
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Language
English
Description
"On the Rez, by Ian Frazier, is about modern-day American Indians, especially the storied Oglala Sioux, who live now on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the plains and badlands of the American West. Crazy Horse, perhaps the greatest Indian war leader of the nineteenth century, and Black Elk, the holy man whose teachings became known around the world, were Oglala; Frazier visits their descendants on Pine Ridge Reservation - "the rez" - now one...
12) Billy Jack
Publisher
Warner Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1971]
Language
English
Description
Tom Laughlin plays a half-breed Native American and ex-Green Beret returning to live in solitude on an Arizona reservation. He is drawn to the Progressive Freedom School for runaway youths, but when tensions flare between the students and narrow-minded local bigots, Billy Jack becomes the school's protector.
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Language
English
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Description
People of the Red Earth fills the need for a general introduction to Colorado's American Indian heritage, both ancient and recent. This book combines up-to-date scientific research findings with information from historical and ethnographic literature, enhanced by personal knowledge.Travelers will appreciate each chapter's suggested places to visit and the appendix interpreting Colorado's many place names of Indian origin.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Appears on list
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Description
After his anger erupts into violence, Cole, in order to avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the native American Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"The bloody Battle of Tippecanoe was only the beginning. It's 1811 and President James Madison has ordered the destruction of Shawnee warrior chief Tecumseh's alliance of tribes in the Great Lakes region. But while General William Henry Harrison would win this fight, the armed conflict between Native Americans and the newly formed United States would rage on for decades. Bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard venture through the fraught...
Author
Series
Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee mysteries volume 16
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Discovering a link between the woman he loves and a political murder, Navajo tribal police Sergeant Jim Chee joins a map-wielding Joe Leaphorn on the heels of a fleeing Washington power broker.
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Series
Language
English
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As the Revolutionary war draws to an end, the violence on the frontier only accelerates. The infamous Girty brothers incite Indians to a number to massacres, but when the Village of Peace, a Christian utopian settlement is destroyed, the settlers know they will have to hunt him down.
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English
Description
Quanah Parker was among the last of the free-ranging Comanche warriors who once terrorized the high plains. Parker ascended to the rank of war chief through brave acts in almost constant warfare with Anglos and other Indian nations alike. But Parker was more than a warrior. A great political leader, he negotiated a peace treaty with the United States that spared his people the indignities heaped on other nations that fought back.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
One of the best spiritual books of the modern era and the bestselling book of all time by an American Indian. Story reveals the life and visions of the Lakota healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863-1950) and the tragic history of his Sioux people during the epic closing decades of the Old West.
20) Blood Will Tell
Author
Series
Kate Shugak mysteries volume 6
Language
English
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Description
In Alaska, PI Kate Shugak, who has always shied from tribal politics, is forced to become involved by a murder. The victim is a native councillor attending a conference on oil exploration of native lands.