native americans

In 1848, while on a wagon train headed for Oregon, fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is kidnapped by Pawnee Indians and then falls in with a one-armed trapper who teaches him how to live in the wild.

Feeling frustrated when his first attempt to weave a basket fails, a Penobscot Indian boy receives help and encouragement from his grandfather.

A narrative history of President Andrew Jackson, whose first major initiative as President instigated the massive expulsion of Native Americans known as the Trail of Tears, and Cherokee Chief John Ross, a mixed-race Cherokee politician and diplomat who used the United States legal system and democratic ideals to oppose Jackson and protect the land of the Five Civilized Tribes.

A retelling of an American Indian tale about how the fly saved the river from the thirsty moose.

At the age of twelve, orphan Will Cooper is sent to work a trading post on the edge of the Cherokee Nation's land, where he spends his life learning about and defending the lives of the Native Americans and desiring the love of Claire Featherstone, the wife of a successful Cherokee landowner and patriarch.

To escape a government that needs antigens in aboriginal blood to stop a plague, sixteen-year-old Cassandra and her family flee to the Island, where she gets help in communicating with the spirit world and discovers she has been chosen to be their voice and instrument.

The arrival of an injured stranger from another tribe, traveling alone and apparently unable to speak, arouses suspicion in Kaya's Nez Perce village.

"Kaya's people tell a story about unusual silver stallions of long ago that had powerful medicine--a strong connection to the spirit world. One night Kaya's sister Speaking Rain dreams of a stallion like none she's ever met. Then the two girls discover a lone silver stallion living in the woods. Is he a Ghost Wind Stallion of legend? And if so, will he bring benefit or harm to Kaya, Speaking Rain, and their people?"--Back cover.

An introduction to the Native Americans of the Arctic and subarctic regions, examining their cultures and describing their lives in the twenty-first century.

Explores the treatment of Native Americans since the arrival of European settlers, and focuses on reservations and government relations with Indians.