Native American Heroes

Reducere. November is Native American Heritage monthOsceola, Cochise, and Tecumseh are three Native American heroes who fought valiantly for their land and f...

Reducere. Charles Alexander Eastman (1858-1939) was a physician writer, national lecturer, and reformer. Eastman was of Santee Dakota, English and French anc...

Jeter Publishing presents a series that celebrates men and women who altered the course of history but may not be as well-known as their counterpar...

Jeter Publishing presents a series that celebrates men and women who altered the course of history but may not be as well-known as their counterpar...

Reducere. "The Native American Story Book - Stories Of The American Indians For Children" features stories appropriate for young readers while presenting chi...

Reducere. Grave Injustice is the powerful story of the ongoing struggle of Native Americans to repatriate the objects and remains of their ancestors that wer...

Reducere. Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains presents biographies of 15 great Native American Chiefs, including Crazy Horse, Siting Bull and Red Cloud. Most ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Robert SullivanFor centuries the hunting of the whale was what defined the Makah, a Native American tribe in Neah Bay, but ...

Reducere. Like the figures in the ancient oral literature of Native Americans, children who lived through the American Indian boarding school experience beca...

Reducere. Native Americans did not write down or record their history, so we have to find out about their past in other ways. They used games, myths, dance, ...

Reducere. The mythology of the North America Indians is a cultural treasure trove, but many of these myths and legends have been hidden away in many old book...

Reducere. Award NameParents Choice Award (Spring) (1998-2007)Award categoryApprovedDiscover how a game of lacrosse led to a victory for the Ojibwatribe again...

Reducere. Crazy Horse is among the best known Native American heroes. Yet many people do not know his boyhood name was Curly, inspired by his curly hair.Curl...

Reducere. Did you know that the Lone Ranger was likely inspired by a black cowboy? Or that some of the most famous sharpshooters in the West were women? Or h...

Native Americans used games, myths, dance, and impersonation to teach the children of their history and ways of life. They did not write down or re...

Reducere. Many stories involved fearsome creatures with supernatural powers. One of these creatures, now known as Bigfoot, passed beyond the realm of native ...

Reducere. The Jicarilla Apaches carry a rich tradition of legendary stories, and customs ranging back centuries - this book, translated directly from texts i...

DescriptionOver the last 200 years, the country has elected a variety of colorful figures to national office. Drunkards, racists, slave holders, ph...

Reducere. As a child growing up in rural Oklahoma, Donald Fixico often heard "hvmakimata"--"that's what they used to say"--a phrase Mvskoke Creeks and Semino...

Images of America: African Americans in Lafayette and Southwest Louisiana sheds a spotlight on some of the heroes and heroines of Southwest Louisia...

A fresh look at American icon Johnny "Appleseed" Chapman and the story of the apple. Johnny Appleseed and the American Orchard illuminates the mean...

Reducere. DescriptionKirkus Review called this "a concise, moving history of American Indian military service." The book opens with a burning, difficult ques...

Reducere. On 14 May 1804, one Captain Meriwether Lewis and his companion William Clark led a thirty-three-man expedition to the new lands of Louisiana. 8, 00...

Reducere. Depictions of the undead in the American South are not limited to our modern versions, such as the vampires in True Blood and the zombies in The Wa...

A nineteenth-century attack by Native Americans on a Presbyterian mission in what would become the Oregon Territory proved to be a turning point in...

Reducere. DescriptionEstablished in 1869, Fort Sill initially hosted cavalry regiments, including buffalo soldiers, charged with pacifying native tribes in p...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: DKA visual and informative guide to the myths of world civilizations, now revised and updated in the relaunched DK Eyewitne...

Reducere. DescriptionStories centuries in the making, and many centuries worth of stories, are an integral part of modern society. Whether modern or ancient,...

Reducere. DescriptionAward-winning editor Paula Guran presents a diverse reprint anthology collecting classic myths and legends, retold by today's top fantas...

Reducere. In North America's first major conflict, known today as the French and Indian War, France and England-both in alliance with Native American tribes-...

Native American psychologist Ben Pecos has returned to the New Mexico pueblo of his birth as an intern with the Indian Health Service. Still strugg...

Reducere. Charles M. Russell has long been recognized for his action-packed paintings, drawings, and sculpture of cowboys, fur trappers, Native American buff...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the award-winning author of Washington's Immortals, The Unknowns takes readers into the heart of combat in the Great War to tell th...

Who was Artemis and what part did she play in the battle of the Giants? Who was the whale-monster Qaqwaii and how did he hunt his prey? This dictio...

Reducere. It Happened in Northern California takes readers on a rollicking, behind the scene look at some of the characters and episodes from the state's sto...