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Author
Series
Anthropological volume no. 5
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the history of the Native Americans who have lived in Pennsylvania since their immigration from Asia and profiles the culture, government, and everyday life of the different tribes who settled in the area.
Author
Language
English
Description
The story of a young American Indian named Abel, home from a foreign war and caught between two worlds: one his father's, wedding him to the rhythm of the seasons and the harsh beauty of the land; the other of industrial America, goading him into a compulsive cycle of dissipation and disgust.
Author
Series
The Indian in the Cupboard series volume 1
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1980
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A nine-year-old boy receives a plastic Indian, a cupboard, and a little key for his birthday and finds himself involved in adventure when the Indian comes to life in the cupboard and befriends him.
4) Hiawatha
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Verses from Longfellow's epic poem depict the boyhood of Hiawatha.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary fiction. Tommy Orange's There There introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career. "We all came to the powwow for different reasons. The messy, dangling threads of our lives got pulled into a braid--tied to the back of everything...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The received idea of Native American history--as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's mega-bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee--has been that American Indian history essentially ended with the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. Not only did one hundred fifty Sioux die at the hands of the U. S. Cavalry, the sense was, but Native civilization did as well. Growing up Ojibwe on a reservation in Minnesota, training as an anthropologist, and researching...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Of all [Jim Harrison's] creations, Brown Dog has earned cult status with readers in the more than two decades since his first appearance, scrambling to stay out of jail after his salvage-diving operation uncovers the frozen body of an Indian man in the waters of Lake Superior. Now, for the first time, this book gathers all the Brown Dog novellas, including one never before published, into one volume"--Jacket.
14) The Spirit world
Series
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Discusses the spirit world rites of the Indians of North America with information on visions, relationship to animals, and more.
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