Examines the lives of teens in rural North America, focusing on the pleasures and challenges of living on reservations and in First Nation communities, discussing art and music, sports, the rodeo, traditions and beliefs, education, and hopes for the future.
When the site of his daughter's upcoming wedding burns down, Wyoming Sheriff Walt Longmire and his friend, Henry Standing Bear, witness the falling death of a young Crow woman and are recruited into an investigation that incites the wrath of the bride-to-be.
Tells the story of how the minerals and oil industries were able to use the resources on Native American lands, the governmental policies that were involved, and the efforts of Native Americans to preserve and regain control of their lands.
After Geraldine Coutts is attacked on the Ojibwe reservation in North Dakota, her husband Bazil, a tribal judge, tries to find justice for his wife, and their teenage son Joe tries to help his mother heal.
Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Native American is the school mascot.
Discusses the forced relocation of American Indian tribes by the American government, resulting in tribal warfare, broken treaties, and the brutal march known as the Trail of Tears.
When tenth grader Vivi Hartman arrives with her rabbi father at a Seneca reservation to arrange the funeral of a Jewish girl who died violently, she finds herself investigating rumors of murder.
An eleven-year-old Penacook Indian boy living on a reservation faces his father's alcoholism, a controversy surrounding plans for a casino on a tribal island, and insensitivity toward Native Americans in his school and nearby town.
Explains what life is like for young people and adults on Indian reservations, covering such topics as sovereign governments, education, work, families, clubs, radio stations, religious beliefs and ceremonies, and cultural preservation.
