cherokee

Pictures tell the story of how a ballgame between the birds and mammals of the earth gave some common animals their characteristics. Includes text and suggestions for storytelling activities in the back of the book.

Soft Rain, a nine-year-old Cherokee girl, is forced to relocate, along with her family, from North Carolina to the West.

A grullo horse helps his boss, Sequoyah, find the peace and quiet thta he needs to develop the alphabet which will form the Cherokee people's first written language. Includes factual information about grullo horses.

A quarrel between the first man and the first woman is reconciled when the Sun causes strawberries to grow out of the earth.

Whirlwind, a Cherokee woman, believes there is profit to be made in trade with the brutal Spanish, and earns herself the name of War Woman for her efforts to lead her people through the terrifying time of displacement caused by encroaching Europeans.

When Chad and his family flee to a fort in the Tennessee wilderness to escape an attack by Chickamauga Indians, the presence of the family of a white renegade who joined the Indians causes additional tensions.

Describes daily life in the Cherokee homeland before changes arrived with white settlers; discusses the Trail of Tears; and takes a look at modern Cherokee life. Includes a bean bread recipe and a list of places to visit.

When Penny begins searching for the source of the mysterious whistling she hears in her sleep, her parents take her to meet her great-great-uncle, who tells her about her Cherokee heritage.

Recreates the circumstances that befell a young Cherokee doctor on the "Trail of Tears" march to a Georgia internment camp.

A biography of the Oklahoma cowboy of Indian descent who became a well-known star of stage and screen and a noted humorist.