native americans

Illustrations and text describe how the Mixtecs create painted manuscripts, or codices, that reflect their way of life and document their history, science, land tenure, tribute, and sacred rituals.

"Since the late 1800s, it has been believed that Native American civilization has been wiped from the United States. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee argues that Native American culture is far from defeated--if anything, it is thriving as much today as it was one hundred years ago. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee looks at Native American culture as it exists today--and the fight to preserve language and traditions"--Provided by publisher.

"Through poems that capture the essence of each person's life, acclaimed Native American writer Joseph Bruchac introduces readers to famous indigenous leaders from The Peacemaker in 1000 A.D. to modern day dancer Maria Tallchief and Cherokee chief Wilma Mankiller. Each poem is illustrated by a modern-day tribally enrolled artist"--From the publisher's web site.

"Yossel, along with his family, flees anti-Jewish Russian pogroms in the late nineteenth century and settles in the American Southwest where he forges a friendship with Thomas, a Native American Navajo boy"--Provided by the publisher.

When a mysterious assault lands the brother of his mother's late boyfriend in the hospital, Brian, a twenty-something Indigenous reporter, must pick up the threads of a life he's abandoned, returning to the Tuscarora reservation to discover the truth.

Presents information on approximately four hundred living and extinct Native American tribes, grouped by linguistic family, covering kinships, locations, populations, and cultural characteristics, and includes maps and color and archival photos.

It is 1953. Thomas Wazhushk is the night watchman at the the first factory to open near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a prominent Chippewa Council member, trying to understand a new bill that is soon to be put before Congress. The U.S. Government calls it an 'emancipation' bill; but it isn't about freedom; it threatens the rights of Native Americans to their land, their very identity. How can he fight this betrayal? Unlike most of the girls on the reservation, Pixie, 'Patrice'--Paranteau has no desire to wear herself down on a husband and kids. She works at the factory, earning barely enough to support her mother and brother. But Patrice needs every penny she can get if she's ever going to get to Minnesota to find her missing sister Vera.

Presents a memoir in which James Huntington shares the story of his life in Alaska, telling how he was left to care for his brother and sister after his mother's death when he was just seven, and discussing his experiences living in the wilderness as a hunter, trapper, and dog sled racer.

"From tales of early baseball in the old west to the young men who fought for Texas Independence, these short stories by experts in their fields bring together a different view of the American West--the tales of the young men and women who were part of the story"--Provided by publisher.

"An . . . account of the missing and murdered indigenous women and girls of Highway 16, and an . . . indictment of the society that failed them"--Amazon.