native americans

A simple, illustrated biography of the Shoshoni Indian girl who served as interpreter, peacemaker, and guide for the Lewis and Clark Expedition to the Northwest in 1805-1806.

Provides an overview of the history, culture, and ways of life of the Navajo Indians.

The reader faces deadly dangers as a writer on assignment in Mexico to explore the ruins of the Mayan Indians and solve the mystery of why the ancient civilization collapsed.

Through a lense of primary sources, examines how First Nations and Native Peoples have been displaced in the United States and Canada through treaties, empty promises, and military force.

An introduction to the Pueblo people, explaining who they are, reviewing the history of the Pueblo, examining key aspects of Pueblo culture, and looking at Pueblo traditions that continue into the twenty-first century.

Explores the natives peoples that originally inhabited the North American continent, where and how they lived and provided for themselves, and their individual cultures and language.

Retells a Tsimshian legend of an old man whose sight is restored by Loon. As a reward he gives the bird his precious shell necklace.

Provides information about life in the longhouse villages of Native people who lived in the northeastern woodlands of North America, discussing structures, food, children, clothing, beliefs, and other topics.

A brief biography of Sacagawea, the Shoshoni woman who accompanied explorers Lewis and Clark on their expedition in the early 1800s.

Presents an adventure novel set in the Andes Mountains of Ecuador and Peru that portrays the customs and history of the Incas and of their modern descendants, the Saraguro.