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81) The White
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
An 'intimate re-imagining' of Mary Jemison's life story who was captured by the Shawnees in 1758 when she was sixteen near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and lived happily within her adopted culture.
Author
Series
Eden Murdoch and Brad Randall novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2002
Description
"There is no word in the Cheyenne language for forgiveness." On the day after Thanksgiving, 1868, George Armstrong Custer and the Seventh Cavalry attack a sleeping Cheyenne village on the banks of the Washita. Ironically, it later becomes known that the village attacked was that of Black Kettle, the foremost peace chief of the Cheyenne Nation. Amidst the heartless and senseless slaughter of men, women, and children, the Seventh Cavalry discovers a...
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Description
Shares accounts of men, women, and children who were taken captive by Native Americans in the years between 1830 and 1885, focusing on events that occurred in Texas, featuring profiles of the victims before capture, explaining how they became captives, and discussing the effects of their captivity on the rest of their lives.
Author
Description
"On May 19, 1836, Fort Parker in Texas was overwhelmed by a band of Comanche Indians. Some residents were brutally murdered, others taken prisoner. Among those captured was eleven years old Cynthia Parker, who would remain with the Comanche for 24 years and give birth to famed Chief Quanah. Another captive was 17-year-old Rachel Plummer, mother of one, pregnant with her second child. She would soon have her first-born ripped from her arms, never to...
89) White warrior
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"A nine-year-old boy is taken in a raid on a wagon train and adopted by an Arapaho to replace his own son who had died. Raised by Red Stone and Beaver Woman, he learns to see the good and the bad in both Indians and whites and struggles to find where he belongs"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
[1997]
Description
"In 1864, Jenny Sanders Pryor is brash, impetuous, optimistic, and nineteen. She and her husband, John, are about to embark on what they think will be a wonderful adventure, joining a wagon train along the Oregon Trail; they are young and in love and eager to begin their new life together. But Jenny will need every bit of her youthful strength and resilience, for she is about to be tested beyond the limits of her physical, emotional, and spiritual...
Author
Pub. Date
c1990
Description
At the age of 19, she was traveling west with her husband and family when she was captured by Oglala Sioux warriors west of Fort Laramie on July 12, 1864. Hers is a remarkable tale of survival by an intelligent, strong young woman and she was finally released at Fort Sully, Dakota Territory on December 12, 1864.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
After his son was kidnapped by Apaches, rancher John Ward reported blame for the incident on a band of Chiricahuas led by Cochise. Lt. George Bascom's subsequent meeting with the Apache leader ignited a Southwestern frontier war between the Chiricahuas and the US Army that would last twenty-five years.
99) Thieving forest
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
On a humid day in June 1806, on the edge of Ohio's Great Black Swamp, seventeen-year-old Susanna Quiner watches from behind a maple tree as a band of Potawatomi Indians kidnaps her four older sisters from their cabin. With both her parents dead from Swamp Fever and all the other settlers out in their fields, Susanna makes the rash decision to pursue them herself. What follows is a young woman's quest to find her sisters, and the parallel story of...
100) Enemy in the fort
Author
Series
American Girl history mysteries volume 13
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In 1754, with her own parents taken captive, twelve-year-old Rebecca must confront her fear and hatred of the Abenaki when a boy raised by members of that tribe is brought to the fort at Charleston, New Hampshire, just before a series of thefts occurs.
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