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Pub. Date
2022
Description
Set against the stunning mountains of Big Sky Country, two estranged siblings return to the sprawling ranch they once called home to confront their familys traumatic past. From the acclaimed Writer/ Directors Scott McGhee and David Siegel (WHAT MAISIE KNEW, THE DEEP END) comes a neo-Western with and emotional tremor hiding beneath it.
3) The taking of Jemima Boone: colonial settlers, tribal nations, and the kidnap that shaped America
Author
Description
Explores the little-known true story of the kidnapping of thirteen-year-old Jemima Boone, Daniel Boone's daughter, by a Cherokee-Shawnee raiding party and the ensuing battle with reverberations that nobody could predict.
4) Wind River
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
An FBI agent teams with a town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Red Fury :The story of Frankie, a lost 10-year-old Indian boy who finds himself thrust into the bigotry of a turn-of-the-century white community. Only one man has the heart and courage to give him a home. Only one woman, the schoolteacher, stands up for him against the entire town. Against a crooked sky: Sam Sutter is the only one left who believes that his sister is still alive after her capture by the Indians and against the wishes of his family...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
When Columbus stepped ashore in 1492, millions of people were already living in America. It wasn't exactly a 'new world,' but an old one whose inhabitants had built a vast infrastructure of cities, orchards, canals, and causeways. After Columbus, an endless wave of explorers, conquistadors, and settlers arrived, and with each of their ships came a Noah's Ark of plants, animals, and disease. Here is an exploration into the mysterious world of ancient...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 27
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Description
Brown's meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. This edition includes illustrations, essays, and excerpts from firsthand accounts and memoirs, that add depth and reflection to this momentous work.
11) Jumanji
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
Jumanji. When Alan Parrish discovers a mysterious board game, he doesn't realize its powers until he is magically transported into the untamed jungles of Jumanji! There he remains for 26 years until he is freed from the game's spell by two unsuspecting children. Now a grown man, Alan tries to outwit the game's powerful forces.
The Indian in the cupboard. On his 9th birthday, Omri receives a cupboard that magically brings his 3 in. toy Indian Little...
Series
Pub. Date
2022
Description
Head outdoors and play with favorite PBS KIDS friends. In Molly of Denali, it's Trini's first River Skate, a special event where everyone, in Qyah skates down the frozen river to a bonfire. Molly and Tooey are thrilled to share this tradition with Trini, but will they be able to teach her how to skate in time?
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
The Sign of the Beaver - Keith Carradine and Annette O'Toole head an outstanding cast in this gripping coming of age survival saga in the tradition of My Side of the Mountain. A colonial family seeks a new life in the uncharted Maine wilderness in 1768.
The Legend of Tillamook's Gold - Julie (Suzanne Marie Doyon), a lonely fourteen-year-old, is in for the most amazing summer of her life when she finds an ancient coin on the beach and uncovers a local...
15) Trail of Tears
Description
Documents the forced removal in 1838 of the Cherokee Nation from the southeastern United States to Oklahoma. Shows the suffering endured by the Cherokees as they lost their land and the difficult conditions they endured on the trail. Describes how thousands of Cherokees died during the Trail of Tears, nearly a quarter of the nation, including most of their children and elders.
17) Broken arrow
Description
A bitter Air Force major steals two nuclear warheads to hold for ransom while his former partner and a national park ranger try to stop him.
18) Little big man
Pub. Date
1970.
Description
Jack Crabb is 121 years old. And he's done it all. He's been a full-fledged Cheyenne, an Indian fighter, a snake oil merchant, master gunman, drinking buddy of wild Bill Hickok, colleague of Buffalo Bill, and is the only survivor of Custer's Last Stand. Crabb is either the Old West's most neglected hero or the biggest liar ever to cross the Mississippi. Little Big Man is Jack Crabb's story.
20) Little Bird
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
In 1968, five-year-old Bezhig Little Bird was forcibly removed from Long Pine Reserve and adopted into a Jewish family in Montreal, and renamed Esther Rosenblum. Eighteen years later, she embarks on a journey to unravel her history.