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Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"On November 20, 1969, a group of 89 Native Americans--most of them young activists in their twenties, led by Richard Oakes, LaNada Means, and others--crossed San Francisco Bay under the cover of darkness. They called themselves the "Indians of All Tribes." Their objective was to occupy the abandoned prison on Alcatraz Island ("The Rock"), a mile and a half across the treacherous waters. Under the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie between the U.S. and the...
Author
Publisher
Wisdom Tales
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"The League of the Iroquois was a true representational democracy-so much so that the United States Constitution is said to have been modeled on some of its tenets. But how, perhaps a thousand years before the time of Columbus, did the Five Iroquois Nations (the Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, and Seneca) come to end the bitter eye-for-eye warfare among them? What brought them together in an alliance based on the Great Law of Peace? And how was...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Bear and Brown Squirrel have a disagreement about whether Bear can stop the sun from rising, Brown Squirrel ends up with claw marks on his back and becomes Chipmunk, the striped one.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The childhood of Sitting Bull, who was called Slow and then became the greatest Lakota hero.
In the 1830s, parents in the Lakota Sioux tribe gave their children childhood names like Runny Nose and Hungry Mouth. Later when the child had grown and proven himself, he earned a new name. Returns Again named his boy Slow because he never did anything quickly. Slow hated his name and tried hard to earn a better one. At fourteen, Slow had a chance to show...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace & Co
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Through the guidance of his uncle and the retelling of various Native American legends, a young boy learns that everything living and inanimate has its place, should be considered sacred, and given respect.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Ely S. Parker (1828-1895) is one of the most unique, but little-known figures in US history. A member of the Seneca, an Iroquois nation, Parker was an attorney, engineer, and tribal diplomat. Raised on a reservation but schooled at a Catholic institution, he learned English at a young age and became an interpreter for his people. During the American Civil War, he was commissioned as a lieutenant colonel and was the primary draftsman of the terms...
19) Buffalo song
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The story of the first efforts to save the vanishing bison (buffalo) herds from extinction in the United States in the 1870s and 1880s. Based on the true story of Samuel Walking Coyote, a Salish (Kalispel) Indian who rescued and raised orphaned buffalo calves"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
♭1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Recounts how the Cherokees, after fighting to keep their land in the nineteenth century, were forced to leave and travel 1200 miles to a new settlement in Oklahoma, a terrible journey known as the Trail of Tears.
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