native american women

Spiritual leaders among Native American women portray in their own words their ancestral knowledge, philosophies, and traditions.

Shares the true stories of Native American women whose actions shaped their cultures and influenced the course of American history, including Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, Pocahontas, Mary Musgrove Bosomworth, Kick-Is-Om-Lo, and many others.

Describes the historical and contemporary lives of native women of North, Central, and South America, their religious, family, and public lives, and issues and controversies they face, and discusses the work of individual native women who have made a difference in their societies or the world.

When his mother, a tribal enrollment specialist living on a reservation in North Dakota, slips into an abyss of depression after being brutally attacked, fourteen-year-old Joe Coutz sets out with his three friends to find the person that destroyed his family.

Retells sixteen Native American stories about womanhood from tribes throughout North America, including the Seneca, Cherokee, Apache, Okanagan, and several others.

A collection of traditional tales, biographical writings, and contemporary short stories by a variety of Native American women authors.

Jane Whitefield comes out of retirement to help a young woman who is trying to escape an abusive relationship with her real estate mogul boyfriend who will do anything to get her and their unborn child back.

An Indian woman is taken prisoner, made a slave, and gradually learns to fight for her rights in a nineteenthcentury Indian tribe.

When Ned Giles is orphaned as a teen in Chicago, he heads west, joining the Great Apache Expedition of 1932 in search of a young boy who has been kidnapped by wild Apaches.