mohawk

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The Mohawk people

Explores the history and culture of the Mohawk people.

I like who I am

2008
Celina is a young Mohawk girl who is teased by some of her classmates for not looking like a Mohawk because of her blue eyes and blond hair, but she comes to understand that being Mohawk is not about how one looks but what is in one's heart.

Skeleton man

After her parents disappear and she is turned over to the care of a strange "great-uncle, " Molly must rely on her dreams about an old Mohawk for her safety and maybe even for her life.

The ransom of Mercy Carter

2002
In 1704, in the English settlement of Deerfield, Massachusetts, eleven-year-old Mercy and her family and neighbors are captured by Mohawk Indians and their French allies, and forced to march through bitter cold to French Canada, where some adapt to new lives and some still hope to be ransomed.

Joseph Brant

Mohawk chief
1992
Examines the life of the Mohawk chief, missionary, and statesman who led his people on the side of the British in the Revolutionary War.

Sky dancers

2004
In the 1930s, John Cloud travels from his Mohawk Indian reservation in upstate New York to New York City where he watches with pride as his father helps to build the Empire State Building.

Eagle song

1999
After moving from a Mohawk reservation to Brooklyn, New York, eight-year-old Danny Bigtree encounters stereotypes about his Native American heritage.

Growing up where the partridge drums its wings

1997
Provides information about Mohawk heritage and tradition through a look at the lives of David and Chantelle, two Native American children who live at Akwesasne, the St. Regis Indian Reservation that straddles the border between northern New York State and Canada.
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