native americans

An introduction to the history, culture, and people of the many Indian tribes that inhabited the region along the south Atlantic coast of the United States, around the Gulf of Mexico, and west to the Mississippi River.

Describes, in text and photographs, the vanishing culture of the Yanomamo, a primitive group that lives in the Amazon Territory of Venezuela.

Crow Chief always warns the buffalo that hunters are coming, until Falling Star, a savior, comes to camp, tricks Crow Chief, and teaches him that all must share and live like relatives together.

At her death an elderly Plains Indian woman experiences the afterlife believed in by her people, while the surviving family members prepare her body according to their custom.

Provides information on the island country of Puerto Rico, in simple text with illustrations, and takes the reader back five hundred years, when native people called Taino lived there, and includes information on their history, culture, and values.

Blue Sky, a young Indian boy, goes hunting to bring food home only to have the food bring him home instead.

Describes daily life in Jamestown for the British men and women whose charge was to find gold and a route to the Orient but found only hardship and despair.

Examines the lives of teens in rural North America, focusing on the pleasures and challenges of living on reservations and in First Nation communities, discussing art and music, sports, the rodeo, traditions and beliefs, education, and hopes for the future.

A murderer, dubbed the Indian Killer, is stalking and scalping white men in Seattle, and John Smith, a Native American man who was adopted by a white couple at birth and who is slowly descending into madness due to his alienation from either the white or Indian culture, seems to be a likely suspect.

A retelling of the Zuni folktale in which an Indian boy accepts the challenge to conquer the Cloud Eater and thereby prove that he is a strong warrior.