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42) Native Americans
Publisher
Grolier Educational
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
10 volumes : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 29 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Tennessee Press
Pub. Date
[1979]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
109 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Hernando De Soto s invasion of Indian lands in 1540 marked the onslaught of great change in the lives of Tennessee s Native Americans. Although these first Tennesseans boasted a cultural heritage of thousands of years, only three centuries of contact with the white man elapsed before their population was decimated and the remnants driven out. The Indians were a settled people when de Soto visited, not the savage or exotic woods creatures so often...
46) Small Wolf
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Series
Language
English
Description
A young Native American boy sets out to hunt on Manhattan Island and discovers some strange people with white faces and very different ideas about land.
Author
Language
English
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Description
A fully updated and revised edition of FOF's 1999 Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes, Revised Edition with 60 new entries, covers more than 200 American Indian tribes of North America. Includes 259 color illustrations (12 new to this edition), 11 color maps, cross-references, a glossary, a bibliography, and an index.
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Series
Publisher
Wellfleet Press
Language
English
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Description
"The spiritual practices of Native Americans are as diverse and bountiful as the Nations themselves, renowned for their inextricable ties to nature and geographical location. Today, many Indigenous customs are still conflated and misunderstood, even though their influence is seen and felt in every corner of the country."--
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Language
English
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Description
A remakable story of God's constancy and provision for all lovers of history, romance and faith...
Based on historical characters and events, Love to Water My Soul recounts the dramatic story of an abandoned white child rescued by Indians. Among Oregon's Paiute people, Shell Flower seeks love and a pace of belonging...only to be cast away from her home.
In the years that follow, she faces a new life in the world of the white man—a...
Based on historical characters and events, Love to Water My Soul recounts the dramatic story of an abandoned white child rescued by Indians. Among Oregon's Paiute people, Shell Flower seeks love and a pace of belonging...only to be cast away from her home.
In the years that follow, she faces a new life in the world of the white man—a...
Author
Publisher
Second Story Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
218 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Tilly receives an invitation to help drive eight elders on their ultimate bucket-list road trip, she impulsively says yes. Before she knows it, Tilly has said good-bye to her family and is on an adventure that will transform her in ways she could not predict, just as it will for the elders who soon dub themselves the "Crazy Eights". They each choose a stop, somewhere or something they've always wanted to experience, on the way to their ultimate...
53) The painted drum
Author
Language
English
Description
Faye Travers, a middle-aged divorcee and specialist in Native American antiquities, discovers a rare ceremonial drum while assessing the estate of a New Hampshire man descended from an Indian agent, and, when she hears the sound of the drum without even touching the instrument, she feels compelled to steal it and return it to a North Dakota reservation where its remarkable history is revealed.
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.
Author
Series
Smithsonian scientific volume 4
Publisher
[Smithsonian institution series, inc.]
Pub. Date
1929.
Physical Desc
6 pages 1., 309 pages, 85 plates on 61 1. (part color; includes portraits~|~|~ facsimiles) : color frontispiece, illustrations (includes map) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
303 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
"More than 160 tribes are featured in this outstanding new encyclopedia, which presents a comprehensive overview of the history of North America's Native peoples. From the Apache to the Zuni, readers will learn about each tribe's history, traditions, and culture, including the impact of European expansion across the land and how tribes live today. Features include maps of ancestral lands; timelines of important dates and events; fact boxes for each...
Author
Language
English
Description
Anna Horn is always looking over her shoulder. For the bullies who torment her, for the entitled visitors at the reservation's casino... and for the nameless, disembodied entity that stalks her every step--an ancient tribal myth come to life, one that's intent on devouring her whole. With strange and sinister happenings occurring around the casino, Anna starts to suspect that not all the horrors on the reservation are old. As girls begin to go missing...
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