cherokee

While exploring the woods with their grandmother, a Cherokee medicine woman, two children learn about the spirit of life that is all around them and within them as well.

Tells about the history and culture of the Cherokee, explains how European explorers affected the society of this Indian people, and looks into their future.

Orphaned after the death of her mother, fourteen-year-old Kate runs away to live with her grandfather, a Cherokee Indian who is trying to stop the poaching of predator birds.

The author, a Cherokee Indian, writes of his experience when he walked the Nine hundred mile Trail of Tears in 1989.

Forewarned by omens, a sixteenth-century Cherokee Indian village in the southern Appalachians is struck by an "invisible fire, " a smallpox epidemic brought by European explorers.

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.

Chronicles the history of the Native American Cherokee tribe, and describes its early traditions and culture, identifies its ancestral home, and examines the contemporary issues the tribe faces. Includes a chronology, glossary, and suggestions for further reading.

Ahyoka helps her father Sequoyah in his quest to create a system of writing for his people.

Describes the life of the Indian activist who became the first woman Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.

The love story of a young Cherokee Indian couple who are separated during the Trail of Tears removal from their traditional lands in North Carolina to Indian territory between 1835 and 1838.