The pilgrims, having survived numerous hardships in the New World with the help of neighboring Native Americans, join with their friends in celebrating the first Thanksgiving.
Examines the importance of the buffalo in the lore and day-to-day life of the Indian tribes of the Great Plains and describes hunting methods and the uses found for each part of the animal that could not be eaten.
Provides an account of the Black Hawk War, a conflict sparked in 1832 when elderly Sauk warrior Black Hawk led a band of Sauk and Mesquakie Indians--part of a group that had agreed to cede all the tribe's lands east of the Mississippi River to the U.S. government--back to their traditional homeland in Illinois to grow corn as they did every year.
Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe, lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847.
Traces the life of the Sauk Indian leader who struggled in vain to prevent the Americans from claiming the rich farmland near the Mississippi River in Illinois.
Facing the most heartbreaking case of her career, Temperance Brennan investigates shallow graves where fading clues begin to emerge of a brutal crime that was committed more than two decades ago.
In 1866, Omakayas's son Chickadee is kidnapped by two ne'er-do-well brothers from his own tribe and must make a daring escape, forge unlikely friendships, and set out on an exciting and dangerous journey to get back home.
