native americans

Explores how European colonization influenced the lives of Native American tribes, addressing topics related to trade, the struggles over land ownership and the effects of European imports, the forced removal of various native peoples and other related topics.

Tells the story of the first Thanksgiving celebrated at the Plymouth Colony.

Jacob Wheeler leaves his family and friends behind in Virginia to seek a new life and adventure in the unsettled West in the early nineteenth century, while young Lakota holy man, Loved by the Buffalo, is haunted by a vision of the destruction of his people.

Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills.

An introduction to early American history, providing information on the first inhabitants of North America and the changes that occurred when European explorers first arrived.

Uses firsthand accounts, location filming, and virtual-reality re-creations to trace the history of the hundreds of Native American nations that have inhabitated North America for over fifteen thousand years, discussing their centuries-long struggle to survive.

Teased for his fair coloring, eleven-year-old Jimmy McClean travels with his maternal grandfather, Nyles High Eagle, to learn about his Lakota heritage while visiting places significant in the life of Crazy Horse, the nineteenth-century Lakota leader and warrior, in a tale that weaves the past with the present. Includes historical note and glossary.

Ixchel, a young Mayan girl who is not allowed to use her mother's thread to weave, exercises her ingenuity and repurposes plastic bags to create colorful weavings. Includes glossary and author's note.

Relates the traditional Cora Indian tale in which Opossum outwits the larger and more powerful Iguana and returns the stolen fire to the people of the earth.

Learn about the Jicarilla Apache's from a young boy of the tribe. Includes native stories and activities.