native americans

Discusses the foods common to Native American tribes, and explains the cultural significance certain foods had for specific tribes.

Describes how the hunting practices of Native Americans differed throughout North and South America, and looks at the weapons they used, the types of animals they hunted, and rituals they performed before hunting.

"What if you suddenly found yourself in Kaya's Nez Perce homeland in 1764? Your journey back in time can take whatever twists and turns you choose as you select from a variety of options in this all-new multiple-ending story"--Provided by publisher.

Feeling lonesome and missing her sister and her horse who were captured by enemy raiders, Kaya befriends a dog that has wandered near camp. Although others warn her not to trust the animal, Kaya senses something different. Then, an annual gathering makes Kaya hopeful of her sister's return, and a group of hunters bring news of horses running wild in the mountains.

In 1759, after a band of fellow settlers fakes a Cherokee raid to conceal the murder of her family, seventeen-year-old Catriona "Catie" Blair embarks on a journey across rural South Carolina and through Cherokee territory to report the crime and bring the murderers to justice, while desperately seeking to regain her own sense of safety.

Having been taken as a child in 1836 and raised by Comanche Indians, thirty-four-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker is forcibly returned to her white relatives, where she longs for her Indian life. Her only friend is her twelve-year-old cousin Lucy. A skillful novel that examines how individual identity is determined by cultural and social structures, and what happens when these are drastically altered. Based on a true story.

Chronicles the life of George Armstrong Custer, discussing his childhood, his marriage, his military career, and his death at Little Bighorn.

Traces the histories of the Native peoples of the American West from their arrival thousands of years ago to the early years of the nineteenth century, with emphasis on conflict and change.

Draws on period letters and papers to chronicle the opening of the first permanent English settlement in the New World, describing the day-to-day existence of the British men and women who dreamed of finding gold and prosperity in the New World and instead found hardship and misery.

Traces the history of the Plains Indians, discussing how the groups have split and recombined throughout history to form new social orders and cultural traditions.