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Author
Series
Publisher
DK
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Revised edition.
Physical Desc
72 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a full-color illustrated examination of the customs and traditions of many North American Indians including those of the Great Plains, Southwest, Great Lakes region, far North, and more.
Author
Series
The Indian in the Cupboard series volume 2
Language
English
Description
A year after he sends his Indian friend, Little Bear, back into the magic cupboard, Omri decides to bring him back only to find that he is close to death and in need of help. Sequel to "The Indian in the Cupboard."
Author
Series
The Indian in the Cupboard series volume 1
Language
English
Description
A nine-year-old boy receives a plastic Indian, a cupboard, and a little key for his birthday and finds himself involved in adventure when the Indian comes to life in the cupboard and befriends him.
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publications Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hundreds, even thousands, of years before Europeans arrived in North America, American Indians had made their homes here. These many groups adapted to the varied lands and climates of what would later become the United States. Each group developed its own culture and history.
12) Canyons
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Finding a skull on a camping trip in the canyons outside El Paso, Texas, Brennan becomes involved with the fate of a young Apache Indian who lived in the late 1800s.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
vii, 85 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Provides a review of the bond between Native Americans and buffalo's throughout history and examines how European settlers disrupted nature's balance and nearly caused the extinction of an animal so highly respected by the native tribes.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
28 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
A collection of short, illustrated biographies of sixteen influential Native Americans, from Tisquantum, who helped the Pilgrims survive the winter of 1622, to Sherman Alexie, a contemporary poet, novelist, and screenwriter.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1994.
Physical Desc
28 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 22 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Although she is mocked and mistreated by her two older sisters, an Indian maiden wins a mighty invisible warrior for her husband with her kind and honest heart.
Author
Series
Birchbark house volume 1
Language
English
Description
Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe, lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847.
19) Native homes
Author
Publisher
Crabtree Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[2001]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Introduces the traditional dwellings built and used by Native nations across North America.
20) Julie
Author
Series
Julie of the wolves trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Description
When Julie returns to her father's Eskimo village, she struggles to find a way to save her beloved wolves in a changing Arctic world and she falls in love with a young Siberian man.
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