Bruchac, Joseph

Uses drama to tell seven different stories from Native American traditions including the Abenaki, Ojibway, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Snohomish, Tlingit, and Zuni.

"Twelve-year-old Malian lives with her grandparents on a Wabanaki reservation during the COVID-19 pandemic"--Provided by publisher.

"It is a dark night. Wolf Cub feels lonely and sad. Can she overcome her fear and find her voice?"--Provided by publisher.

"The story of Sequoyah and the creation of the Cherokee syllabary, as told by his thirteen year old son"--Provided by publisher.

Cody learns how to handle himself with the bullies at school when an uncle he never knew he had comes to stay at his house.

Young Native-American boy Jake is a strong lacrosse player on the reservation, but when he and his mother move to Washington D.C., lacrosse players at his new school do not understand the Iroquois.

Illustrations and brief text present aspects of the lives of the many varied native peoples across North America.

"The League of the Iroquois was a true representational democracy--so much so that the United States Constitution is said to have been modeled on some of its tenets. But how, perhaps a thousand years before the time of Columbus, did the Five Iroquois Nations (the Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, and Seneca) come to end the bitter eye-for-eye warfare among them? What brought them together in an alliance based on the Great Law of Peace? And how was it that a system of Clan Mothers was instituted in which women are seen as the center of the nation and still today choose the 50 royaners, or peace chiefs, who speak for their respective communities in meetings of the League? In [this book], . . . author Joseph Bruchac draws from the teachings of both contemporary and past Iroquois tradition bearers in telling the . . . story of how 'the Peacemaker,' a divine messenger sent by the Creator, helped to bring reconciliation to warring nations"--Provided by publisher.