cherokee indians

A retelling of the traditional Cherokee tale of Terrapin the trickster and how he outwitted the Bad Wolf and the Other Wolves.

A study of North American Indians accurately portraying their history, culture and way of life today.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A color-illustrated look at the history, customs, and daily life of the Cherokee Native American tribe. Includes a glossary and a further-reading list.

Willie, having accepted a teaching job at the Cherokee Female Seminary under the name of a classmate, begins to question her belief in ghosts and is forced to face her past when strange things start happening at the school and she hears students discussing the death of a girl who is rumored to haunt the room in which Willie is staying.

Offers a brief introduction to the life and work of Sequoyah, a Native American leader who translated the Cherokee language into a written form.

A biography of Wilma Mankiller, the first woman to be elected chief of the Cherokee Nation.

A biography of the uneducated Cherokee Indian who did what white scholars said could not be done when he invented a syllabary for writing the Cherokee language.

An account of relations between the Cherokee Nation and the United States in the early nineteenth century, particularly the reasons for, and difficulties of, the forced journey of the Cherokee to an Oklahoma reservation.