native americans

Photographs and simple text provide a brief introduction to the history, culture, traditions, and people of the Hopi Indians.

When a young girl attends the wedding of her best friend's cousin, she learns many things about the customs of the Navajo Indians living in the American Southwest.

Introduces the history, culture, and beliefs of the Lakota Indians through a description of the lives of several children living on the Rosebud Sioux reservation in South Dakota.

Text and photographs depict the home, school, and cultural life of two young Indian girls growing up on the San Ildefonso Pueblo in New Mexico.

A retelling of the Huichol Indian tale in which the Goddess of Living Things tells Watakame to build a sturdy boat to carry him through the terrible flood she says will soon cover the Earth.

Great-grandmother Tandy tells Lacey about a quilt given to their ancestor, Daniel, who, upset by the changes after his grandfather's death, leaves Illinois for South Dakota in 1891 to find his father, and learns about the Sioux Ghost Dance first-hand.

Presents a tour of this Spanish-built mission in California from the point of view of a priest, two Chumash Indian residents, and two military officers.

After her parents disappear from their isolated home in the Great Smoky Mountains, Adanta discovers the truth of the Cherokee stories her father told her and embarks on a journey to thwart the sorcery that has claimed her parents.

Presents information on Native American dwellings called plank houses, and includes descriptions of what they are, how they are made, who lived in them, and how they were built into villages. Includes glossary and index.

Describes Inca mummies found at Puruchuco and the ice mummies of the Andes, as well as what scientists have learned from them.