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Birchbark brigade: a fur trade history
By Cris Peterson. 2009
Discusses three hundred years of North American frontier trade between European explorers with manufactured goods and Indians with animal pelts.…
Traces the growth of trading companies. Describes the traders' living conditions and the large birch-bark canoes they used for transportation. For grades 5-8. 2009Native American writers (Multicultural voices)
By Steven Otfinoski. 2010
Biographical profiles of ten Native American writers: Carter Curtis Revard, N. Scott Momaday, Gerald Vizenor, James Welch, Michael Dorris, Leslie…
Marmon Silko, Joy Harjo, Louise Erdrich, Rigoberta Menchú, and Sherman Alexie. Includes a summary and analysis of each featured author's major works. For senior high and older readers. 2010The Comanche (Indians of North America, Revised Ser.)
By Willard H. Rollings. 2005
History of the Comanche Indians, who acquired horses from the Spanish and ruled the southern plains and vast herds of…
buffalo. Discusses modern life on a reservation in southwestern Oklahoma, where the tribe preserves its heritage. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2005The Arapaho (Indians of North America, Heritage Edition Ser.)
By Loretta Fowler. 2006
History and modern life of the Arapaho Indians, who divided after moving from the Great Lakes region. Discusses the Southern…
Arapaho, who live alongside the Cheyenne in Oklahoma, and the Northern Arapaho, who share a reservation with the Eastern Shoshone in Wyoming. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2006The Blackfeet (Indians of North America, Heritage Edition Ser.)
By Theresa Jensen Lacey. 2006
History of the three tribes--the Siksika, the Blood, and the Piegan--who belong to the Blackfeet Nation. Discusses their near demise…
from smallpox in the mid-1800s and modern efforts to preserve their native culture and language in northwestern Montana. For grades 6-9 and older readers. 2006The buffalo and the Indians: a shared destiny
By Dorothy Hinshaw Patent, William Muñoz By. 2006
Examines the interdependence of buffalo and Native Americans, who hold the animals sacred. Discusses historical Indian hunting methods, European settlers'…
slaughter of the herds, and the consequences on native culture. Links the modern revival of indigenous traditions with conservation of the buffalo. Includes tribal tales. For grades 4-7. 2006Buildings, clothing, and art: American Indian contributions to the world (American Indian Contributions to the World Ser.)
By Kay Marie Porterfield, Emory Dean Keoke. 2005
Discusses the influences of climate and local materials on American Indian houses, clothes, and artwork. Covers igloos, wigwams, and adobe…
pueblos; tanned hide moccasins, fur-lined parkas, and woven cloth; and decorations, wall paintings, and sculpture. For grades 5-8 and older readers. 2005Science and technology (American Indian Contributions to the World Ser.)
By Kay Marie Porterfield, Emory Dean Keoke. 2005
Explains that American Indian knowledge of natural processes led to inventing tools and ways to adapt the environment to their…
needs. Inventions included spear points, tobacco pipes, musical instruments, copper smithery, rubber, the base-twenty math system, and calendars. For grades 5-8 and older readers. 2005Trade, transportation, and warfare (American Indian Contributions to the World Ser.)
By Kay Marie Porterfield, Emory Dean Keoke. 2005
Discusses the trade fairs and routes that developed as tribes settled into sites with specific assets. Explains the exchanges of…
goods and the methods of moving products to market. Describes tribal governance and military tactics that preferred dishonor over killing. For grades 5-8 and older readers. 2005Food, farming, and hunting (American Indian Contributions to the World Ser.)
By Kay Marie Porterfield, Emory Dean Keoke. 2005
Explains geographic variations on hunting and fishing techniques and weapons; on gathering fruits and nuts; and on domesticating plants such…
as corn, chilies, potatoes, cotton, tobacco, peanuts, and tomatoes--crops now raised throughout the world. For grades 5-8 and older readers. 2005The Power of Style: How Fashion and Beauty Are Being Used to Reclaim Cultures
By Christian Allaire. 2021
Style is not just the clothes on our backs—it is self-expression, representation, and transformation. As a fashion-obsessed Ojibwe teen, Christian…
Allaire rarely saw anyone that looked like him in the magazines or movies he sought out for inspiration. Now the Fashion and Style Writer for Vogue, he is working to change that—because clothes are never just clothes. Men’s heels are a statement of pride in the face of LGTBQ+ discrimination, while ribbon shirts honor Indigenous ancestors and keep culture alive. Allaire takes the reader through boldly designed chapters to discuss additional topics like cosplay, make up, hijabs, and hair, probing the connections between fashion and history, culture, politics, and social justice. *A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard SelectionBefore Columbus: the Americas of 1491
By Charles C. Mann. 2009
Portrays Native American societies in North, Central, and South America--their governments, agriculture, trade, and engineering feats. Discusses the age of…
the "New World," the military success of Europeans against larger armies, and whether the Americas were really a wilderness. Based on 1491 (DB 61198). For grades 5-8. 2009Meet Christopher: an Osage Indian boy from Oklahoma (My World--Young Native Americans Today Ser.)
By Genevieve Simermeyer, Katherine Fogden. 2008
Eleven-year-old Christopher Cote talks about his family background and daily interests: attending church, Boy Scout activities, and school classes, and…
learning Osage (his tribal language) and the traditional ceremonies, dances, and beliefs of his people. For grades 4-7. 2008How I Survived: Four Nights on the Ice
By Serapio Ittusardjuat, Matthew K. Hoddy. 2020
Joseph Brant: Mohawk chief (North American Indians of Achievement Ser.North American Indians of Achievement)
By Jonathan Bolton, Claire Wilson. 1992
Wild at heart: mustangs and the young people fighting to save them
By Terri Farley. 2015
The book is a synopsis of the issues surrounding wild horses' habitats, their protection and threatened existence. Terri Farley researched…
Wild Horse Annie's push for legislative protections to current stand-offs with the Bureau of Land Management. For grades 5-8Indians of Texas (Let's remember)
By Betsy Warren. 1981
Shoshoni pony
By Wayne Cornell, Carol Lynn MacGregor, Dick Lee. 2003
Horses changed the way Native Americans lived and worked. This is the story of how the Shoshoni Indians, who lived…
in the area that would later become Idaho, became the first in the Northwest to get horses and why these amimals were so important to Shoshoni and their culture. For grades 5-8Clamshell Boy: a Makah legend (Native American Legends Ser.Native American Legends Series)
By Terri Cohlene. 1990
Retells the legend of Clamshell Boy, who rescues a captured group of children from the dreaded wild woman Basket Woman.…
Includes information on the customs and lifestyles of the Makah Indians. For grades 3-6