paiute indians

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paiute indians

Ride the crooked wind

1973
A Paiute boy, happy in the old Indian ways, must face many changes when his grandmother becomes ill.

The last rider

the final days of the Pony Express
Pony Express rider Matt Edgars is concerned about a war with the Paiutes when a number of Express stations are set on fire.

Vivian and the legend of the hoodoos

2017
"When Vivian is disrespectful to the trees and the land, Grandma relates the Paiute legend of the trickster god Sinawav the coyote who turned the bad Old Ones into stone columns"--Provided by publisher.
Cover image of Vivian and the legend of the hoodoos

Dust devils

1997
Ira Hamilton, the teenage son of an Indian-hating rancher, learns to make his own decisions and become his own man while attempting to recover a prize Arabian colt stolen from him by a local rustler known as Hawkeye.

Sarah Winnemucca

1981
Recounts the life of the influential Paiute woman who rescued several hundred of her people held captive during the Bannock War.

Sarah Winnemucca

1992
Recounts the life story of the influential Paiute woman who fought for justice and a better life for her people.

Sarah Winnemucca

2001
Chronicles the life of Sarah Winnemucca, discussing her childhood in a Paiute community in western Nevada, her work as an interpreter for the U.S. Army during the Bannock War, and her efforts to save her people in the 1880s.

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