native americans

Explains how the animal and human inhabitants of the Sonoran Desert of Arizona, including a mountain lion, a roadrunner, a coyote, a tortoise, and members of the Papago Indian tribe, adapt to and survive the desert's merciless heat.

In 1949 in the Florida Everglades, a ten-year-old girl called Bones, whose father is part Miccosukee Indian, tries to discover what really happened when he is accused of two murders and sent to jail.

Followed by a huge grizzly bear, an Eskimo brother and sister make a perilous trek across the storm-swept tundra to bring back a frozen caribou to their hungry family.

Explains some of the myths and legends of Native Americans, covering deities and spiritual beings, heroes, tricksters, death and the afterlife, and more.

Presents myths and legends from the Aztecs, Toltecs, Mayas, and Incas, from the jungle tribes of Brazil, from the pampas, and from the Yamana Indians.

Provides tools for teaching "Keepers of the Animals, " including experiential environmental activities, sketches of major Native American cultures, and a list of further readings.

A program for wildlife ecology, interweaving Native American cultural heritage with environmental lessons.

A collection of stories and games designed to teach students about the Native American culture.

In 1704, in the English settlement of Deerfield, Massachusetts, eleven-year-old Mercy and her family and neighbors are captured by Mohawk Indians and their French allies, and forced to march through bitter cold to French Canada, where some adapt to new lives and some still hope to be ransomed.