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61) Quillworker
Author
Pub. Date
1990
Description
A Cheyenne legend explaining the origins of the stars. Also describes the history, culture, and fate of the Cheyenne Indians.
64) Cheyenne autumn
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 20
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.
65) The Inca
Author
Pub. Date
19uu
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Provides information about the Inca, a group of people who lived in the Andes Mountains of South America hundreds of years ago, discussing the Inca Empire, their skills as builders and farmers, the fall of the empire at the hands of the Spanish, and the Inca legacy.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Coyote, who has a nose for trouble, insists that the crows teach him how to fly, but the experience ends in disaster for him.
A group of crows gives a trickster coyote a dose of his own medicine when they tire of his conceited bragging after they agree to teach him how to dance, sing, and fly
67) My brother
Author
Pub. Date
1997
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...
68) Sacajawea
Author
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.
69) The Inca empire
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Discusses the Inca empire, including their traditional way of life, the reign of King Pachacuti, the last of the great kings, the Inca civil war and the end of the empire.
Author
Series
Birchbark house volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
In 1852, forced by the United States government to leave their beloved Island of the Golden Breasted Woodpecker, fourteen-year-old Omokayas and her Ojibwe family travel in search of a new home.
Author
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
Jackals volume 5
Pub. Date
2023.
Formats
Description
"When a band of merciless, murdering thieves raise hell across the territory, three men committed to justice descend upon them like angels of death. And when the guns fall silent and the smoke clears, the Jackals are always the last men standing. Comanchero Cullen Brice has escaped from a Huntsville, Alabama, prison, where he was sentenced to hang. And he has sworn revenge against the man who killed his brother and put him behind bars, Texas Ranger...
78) On Mother's lap
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A small Eskimo boy discovers that Mother's lap is a very special place with room for everyone, including his baby Sister and a puppy.
Author
Description
Before the white man came, the vast region that is now the United States was inhabited by one million Native Americans, organized into six hundred distinct societies and scattered from the desolate ice wastes of the Far North to the hot swamps of the South; from the great forests of the East to the plains and deserts of the West. The first meetings between the Natives and white men in the southeast and along the Atlantic coast were not important historically...