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Native Americans: Introductory

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PICTURE BOOKS
BH   1-80   American Indian Songs
BH   2-94   Ten Little Indians
BH   3-94   Indian Children (poem)
♦   $   ​​Brother Eagle, Sister Sky by Susan Jeffers
A picture book adapted from a speech given by Chief Seattle in 1850.
$   ​Grandmother Spider Brings the Sun by Geri Keams
A Cherokee story.
♦   $   ​Hiawatha  ill. by Susan Jeffers
Illustrated selections from Longfellow's poem.
♦   $   ​Hiawatha's Childhood by Longfellow, ill. Errol Le Cain
♦   $   ​In My Mother's House  by Ann Nolan Clark
Collection of Pueblo poems told through eyes of children.
♦   $   ​Ten Little Rabbits  by Virginia Grossman
Celebrate Native American culture while teaching young children to count 1 to 10.
BEGINNING READERS
♥   Hopi, the Cliff Dweller  by Martha Jewett (1909)
An early grade reader about life as a Hopi Native.
♦   $   ​The True Story of Pocahontas by Lucille Penner
Step Into Reading, Step 3
♦   $   ​Trail of Tears by Joseph Bruchae
Step Into Reading, Step 5
CULTURAL
FC   F7-179   Stories About Indians
FC   OC7   Our Little Native American Cousin
FC   OC19   Our Little Eskimo Cousin

♦   $   ​​Knots on a Counting Rope by Bill Martin, Jr.
'A rich tale of intergenerational tale of love and respect.'
♦   $   ​If You Lived With the Sioux Indians by Ann McGovern
♥   Our Little Indian Cousin by Mary Wade
♥   Stories of Indian Children  by Mary Hall Husted (1898)
An account of life among Native Americans, written for very young children.  Includes an introduction to Hiawatha.
♥   Wewa, the child of the Pueblos  by Helen Campbell (1903)
Native American life in a Pueblo village.
►  ​Weiss, Jim  Tales from Cultures
IMAGINATIVE
BH   2-96   Shingebiss
BH   6-102   How Yehl, the Hero, Freed the Beaming Maiden
BH   6-127   The Man Who Loved Hai Quai
BH   6-198   The Fisherman Who Caught the Sun (Hawaiian)
JC   2-227   Scarface
JC   2-241   How Glosskap Made the Birds
JC   2-249   The Bad Wishers
♥   American Indian Fairy Tales  by Margaret Compton (1895)
►  ♥   American Indian Fairy Tales  retold by W.T. Larned (1921)
♥   ​Indian Fairy Tales as Told to the Children in the Wigwam  by Mary Wade (1906)
♥   Indian Folk Tales  by Mary Nixon-Roulet (1911)
♦   $   ​North American Legends by Virginia Haviland
♥   Totem Tales  by W. S. Phillips (1896) 
Gathered from the Pacific Northwest
EPIC/LEGENDARY HEROES
FC   S5-310   Story of Hiawatha
BH   9-89   Hiawatha's Fasting
HISTORY
FC   S11-364   The Forgiving Indian
FC   F11-13   American Indians
FC   AS7   Westward Expansion
♦   Friday the Arapaho Indian by A.M. Anderson
American Adventure Series
♦   King Philip: Loyal Indian by Cecile Pepin Edwards
 Piper Books Series
♦   Pontiac:  Lion in the Forest by Wilma Pitchford Hays
Piper Books Series
♦   Portugee Phillips and the Fighting Sioux by A.M. Anderson
American Adventure Series
♦   Sacajawea: Guide to Lewis and Clark by Jerry Seibert
 Piper Books Series
♥   ​Stories of Indian Chieftains  by Mary Hall Husted (1911)
The story starts with Columbus and follows Indian children. Written for Grades 3-4.  The purpose is 'to awaken a sympathy for the dying race.'
♦   The Story of Little Bighorn by R. Conrad Stein
Cornerstones of Freedom Series
♦   The Story of the Trail of Tears by R. Conrad Stein
Cornerstones of Freedom Series
HISTORICAL FICTION
♦   Captured Words, the Story of a Great Indian, Sequoyah, 1770 by Frances Williams Browin
American Heritage Series
♦   $   ​Eagle Feather by Clyde Robert Bulla
When the cruel cousin he has been working for refuses to let him leave at the end of the summer, a young Navajo boy runs away to rejoin his family and go to school.
♦   $   ​Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
This is the story of Karana, the Indian girl who lived alone for years on the Island of the Blue Dolphins.
♦   $   ​Paddle-to-the-Sea  by Holling S. Hollings
A young Indian boy carves a little canoe with a figure inside and names him Paddle-to-the-Sea. A look at his journey from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean.
♦   Wildcat, the Seminole, a Story of the Florida War-1835 by Electa Clark
American Heritage Series
FICTION
JC    $     5-120   Little Navajo Bluebird by Ann Nolan Clark
Mother always said: 'Follow your trail as the bluebird flies.'  Dali, a modern Navajo girl living in Utah, found that the trail led to much happiness.
♦   $   ​​Jared's Island by Marguerite de Angeli
" Story of Jared, English lad shipwrecked on the Jersey coast, in 1760, and of his life with young Quaker Abner and his wife. Small boy adventures, with Indians and treasure hunts, make this pleasant entertainment for small boy readers."
♦   White Swallow by Emma Gelders Sterne
CLASSIC LITERATURE
►  Adventures of Tom Sawyer
►  ​Weiss, Jim   Adventures of Tom Sawyer
►  Weiss, Jim  Rip Van Winkle
BIOGRAPHIES
♦   $   ​​Cherokee Chief: The Life of John Ross by Electa Clark
♦   Chief Seattle, Great Statesman by Elizabeth Rider Montgomery 
Garrard American Indian Series
♥   Four American Indians, for young Americans  by Edson Whitney (1904) 
King Philip, Pontiac, Tecumseh, Osceola
♦   King Philip: Loyal Indian by Cecile Edwards
Piper Series
♦   Maria Tallchief:  American Ballerina by Adele de Leeuw
A biography of the Osage Indian who became one of America's foremost ballerinas.
♦   Massasoit, Friend of the Pilgrims by Virginia Voight
Garrard American Indian Series
♦   Osceola, Simonole War Chief by Wyatt Blassingame
Garrard American Indian Series
♦   Picture Story of Red Cloud by Shannon Garst
♦   Pontiac, Mighty Ottawa Chief by Virginia Voight
Garrard American Indian Series
♦   Red Cloud, Sioux War Chief by Virginia Voight
Garrard American Indian Series
♦   $   ​Sacagawea by Flora Seymour
Childhood of Famous Americans Series
♦   Sacajawea: Guide to Lewis and Clark by Jerry Seibert
Piper Series
♦   $   ​Sitting Bull by Augusta Stevenson
Childhood of Famous Americans Series
♦   Sitting Bull, Great Sioux Chief by LaVere Anderson
Garrard American Indian Series
♦   ​Tecumseh, Shawnee Warrior-Statesman by James McCague
Garrard American Indian Series
♦   $   ​The Story of Geronimo by Jim Kjelgaard
A Signature Biography
♦   Wildcat the Seminole by Electa Clark
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