native americans

Twelve-year-old Omakayas, an Ojibwe girl, draws strength from the land and spirits as she and her family endure numerous hardships in their search for a new home in northern Minnesota in 1852.

Presents more than a hundred Hispanic and Native American legends and folk stories from twenty countries, grouped by theme.

Discusses the historical, legal, and social aspects of the Supreme Court case of "Worcester v. Georgia, " which addressed the state government's infringement on Cherokee Native American tribe's sovereignty.

In 1758, at the age of sixteen, Mary Jemison is taken by a Shawnee raiding party and gradually becomes integrated into her new family and culture.

When Lady Catherine has an affair with Sir Walter Raleigh, she is subsequently banished to Raliegh's colony of Roanoke by Queen Elizabeth; surviving alongside other colonists with help from Native Americans, she gradually falls in love with Manteo, a native of the area, just as Raleigh sets sail for the New World.

Contains full-color illustrated drawings depicting the historical, political, and cultural development of the ancient Mayan civilization including Mayan geography, social classes, pyramids and ceremonies, astronomy, system of writing, and more.

Joe Leaphorn of the Navajo Tribal Police tracks down the murderer of an old man.

An investigation of the murder of a tribal policeman leads to a historical find worth a fortune.

Draws on native testimony, archaeological evidence, and firsthand observations of the battlefield to examine facts and myths about the Battle of Little Bighorn and provide an account of the final days of the battle between George Armstrong Custer's battalion and the warriors of Sitting Bull's village.

Orphaned by an Indian raid while traveling West with a wagon train, fifteen-year-old Carrie Hill is befriended by the English trapper Beaver Dick and taken to live with his Indian wife Jenny and their six children.