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61) Woods runner
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
From his 1776 Pennsylvania homestead, thirteen-year-old Samuel, who is a highly-skilled woodsman, sets out toward New York City to rescue his parents from the band of British soldiers and Indians who kidnapped them after slaughtering most of their community. Includes historical notes.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
After his anger erupts into violence, Cole, in order to avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the native American Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life.
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Still grieving over the death of her hero, and missing her stolen horse and kidnapped younger sister, Kaya tries to earn the trust of a lone and starving dog who is about to have puppies. Includes historical notes on Nez Percé children.
66) Precious Bones
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1949 in the Florida Everglades, a ten-year-old girl called Bones, whose father is part Miccosukee Indian, tries to discover what really happened when he is accused of two murders and sent to jail.
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Ancient records of canoes are found from the Pacific Northwest to the coast of Maine, in Minnesota and Mexico, in the Southeast and across the Caribbean. Neuzil and Simms tell the story of that singular American artifact, so little changed over time: of canoes, old and new, the people who made them, and the labors and adventures they shared.
Author
Series
Birchbark house volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1765, the arrival of an injured stranger from another tribe, traveling alone and apparently unable to speak, arouses suspicion in Kaya's Nez Percé village. Includes glossary and historical notes on the Nez Percé Indians
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.
73) The Cherokee
Author
Publisher
Chelsea Clubhouse
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Company
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In the fall of 1764, after Kaya and her sister are kidnapped from their Nez Percé village by enemy horse raiders, she tries to find a way to escape back home. Includes historical notes on education and learning among the Nez Percé Indians.
75) The Cherokee
Author
Series
Publisher
Compass Point Books
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Series
Sisters of the Rockies volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Juniper and her sisters travel west to find the Blackfoot Piegan woman their late father credits with saving his life. Riley became a trapper in the Rocky Mountains to find peace and quiet, but he feels compelled to help the sisters on their mission. When it becomes clear they're now under pursuit, the questions mount as danger closes in"--
Author
Language
English
Description
"On a quiet Philadelphia morning in 1906, a newspaper headline catapults Alma Mitchell back to her past. A federal agent is dead, and the murder suspect is Alma's childhood friend, Harry Muskrat. Harry--or Asku, as Alma knew him--was the most promising student at the 'savage-taming' boarding school run by her father, where Alma was the only white pupil. Created in the wake of the Indian Wars, the Stover School was intended to assimilate the children...
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The Last Sovereigns: Sitting Bull and the Resistance of the Last Free Lakotas is the story of how Sitting Bull resisted the white man's ways as a last best hope for the survival of an indigenous way of life-a nomadic life based on the buffalo--sacred to him and to his people"--
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