Examines the loss of lands and culture suffered by Native Americans over the centuries, from 1607 to the end of the twentieth-century putting contemporary issues into historical context.
In 1847, Choona and his Choctaw tribe hear of the famine in Ireland and raise $170 to help them, but first Choona must find it in his heart to forgive the people who killed his ancestors during the Long March.
In 1864, a Navajo shaman and his grandson seek powerful, mythical beads that can save their people from great evils, including The Long Walk forced on them by United States soldiers, and the trickster Coyote.
Chronicles the history of the "Trail of Tears" and the 1839 forced relocation of the Cherokee nation from their land in the southeastern United States to Oklahoma territory, a distance of eight hundred miles.
Dorothea Lange and the censored images of Japanese American internment
Lange, Dorothea
2006
A collection of illustrated photographs of the internment of Japanese Americans at the beginning of World War Two taken by noted documentary photographer Dorothea Lange, along with essays that provides a biography of Lange and the effects of internment on the Japanese community.
my story of imprisonment in Japanese-American internment camps
Gruenewald, Mary Matsuda
2005
Mary Matsuda Gruenwald recounts the experiences she and her family had after being evacuated to an internment camp for Japanese-Americans during World War II.
Describes the white man's treatment and forcible displacement of five Indian nations of the Southwest--the Comanche, Cheyenne, Apache, Navajo, and Cherokee.
Discusses events leading up to the removal of the Cherokee from their homelands, hardships faced on the Trail of Tears, challenges of the new territory in Oklahoma, and the Cherokee nation today.
