Offers profiles of eight Native American performing artists, including Will Rogers, dancer Maria Tallchief, singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie, and actors Luther Standing Bear, Iron Eyes Cody, and Graham Greene.
Plains Indian Wars (America at War) (America at War (Chelsea House))
by Sherry Marker
Greed, misunderstanding, and resentment characterized the relationship between early white settlers moving west and the Native American peoples of the Great Plains. As whites delved further into western territory, the U.S. government attempted to quell Native Americans' fears by signing treaties with various tribes, guaranteeing their rights and freedoms. However, almost every treaty was eventually broken by the settlers and the army, leading to distrust. The series of bloody confrontations tha...
Native People Native Lands
Southeast Indians (First Nations of North America)
by Andrew Santella
Native Peoples of California (Native Peoples of North America)
by Barbara Linde
When the Spanish began colonizing California in the late 1700s, there were more than 300,000 native peoples living there. By 1860, their population had been cut down to 30,000 by the European diseases they were unprepared to fight, poverty, and other hardships. In this book, readers learn about the traditional culture of the native peoples of California, including the time period before European and American settlement as well as its influence on these groups. Full-color photographs and historic...
At the end of the Civil War Midnight, a fourteen-year-old black cowboy and runaway slave who nurtures the dream of being reunited with his family, finds his destiny linked with that of two Arapaho Indians.
Changing Woman of the Apache (American Indian Experience)
by Sydele E Golston
Europeans and Native Americans (Native American Life)
by Kim Etingoff
Spotlight on Native Americans: Sets 1 - 2 (Spotlight on Native Americans)
The Chumash and Their History (We the People (Compass Point Books Hardcover))
by Natalie M Rosinsky
Lakota Sioux (True Books: American Indians )
by A Santella and Andrew Santella
Ancient Americas (Illustrated History Encyclopedia S.) (Illustrated History Encyclopedia)
by Fiona MacDonald and etc.
Step back in time and explore the culture and beliefs of the people that inhabited the Americas. This unique guide takes a thematic approach to the past, enabling complete topics to be reviewed and assessed at a single stroke and making the subject easily accessible for the young reader. Divided into four sections, the authors cover the Aztec and Mayan world, the Inca empire, the native Americans and Arctic peoples. The result is a broad overview of these different ways of life. Each section giv...
Chumash (Native Americans) (Native Americans Set 2)
by Sarah Tieck
Native American Games and Stories
by Joseph Bruchac and James Bruchac