native americans

After a surprise attack leaves many of her people dead, fifteen-year-old Walks Alone, an Apache girl wounded in the massacre, struggles to survive and rejoin the refugee band.

Describes how the American military in World War II used a group of Navajo Indians to create an indecipherable code based on their native language.

Lost in the Ohio River Valley in May 1793, twelve-year-old Clare and her two brothers struggle to survive in the wilderness and to avoid capture by the Shawnee Indians.

In 1818 Mary O'Shea must decide whether to remain on Michilmackinac Island and marry her dear Indian friend White Hawk or to accept the proposal of James, an English nobleman, and to go with him to London.

Balam, a Mayan boy struggling to achieve manhood, participates in fasts, prayers, and rituals to appease the gods and bring rain to his village.

An account of Aztec religion, society, agriculture, and civilization.

Miranda, a nature-loving, athletic fifteen-year-old, goes on a backpacking trip to look for Indian paintings in the canyons of southern Utah, where she feels a mystical connection to the women who were there before her.

Celebrates the traditions of the American Indians in 400 photographs of pottery, jewelry, blankets, baskets, masks, totem poles, dances and powwows.

Describes the life of the courageous leader of the Shawnee Indians who attempted to unite the Indians into one federation to withstand the advancement of white settlers into their land.