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Indians of North America

The Native Americans

Don Nardo

Discusses the weapons used by Native Americans and their different means of warfare.

Sorceress

Celia Rees

Eighteen-year-old Agnes, a Mohawk Indian who is descended from a line of shamanic healers, uses her own newly-discovered powers to uncover the story of her ancestor, a seventeenth-century New England

Cherokee Nation V. Georgia

Nathan Aaseng

Describes the attempts to protect the rights of Cherokees living in Georgia beginning in the colonial period, including the landmark Supreme Court cases, Cherokee Nation vs.

Sweetgrass

Jan Hudson

Living on the western Canadian prairie in the nineteenth century, Sweetgrass, a fifteen-year-old Blackfoot Indian girl, saves her family from a smallpox epidemic and proves her maturity to her father.

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The Shadow Brothers

A. E. Cannon

Marcus feels his entire world changing around him as Henry, his Navajo foster brother, starts to change his personality and wonder if he should return to his family's reservation.

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When the Legends Die

Hal Borland

Thomas Black Bull tries to make his way in the white man's world after his parents die.

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Cherokee Bat and the Goat Guys

Francesca Lia Block

With their parents away, four young people form a rock band that becomes wildly popular, carrying them into a "freer" life than they can cope with.

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Canyons

Gary Paulsen

Finding a skull on a camping trip in the canyons outside El Paso, Texas, Brennan becomes involved with the fate of a young Apache Indian who lived in the late 1800s.

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The Chief

Robert Lipsyte

On the verge of having a shot at the heavyweight boxing championship, nineteen-year-old Sonny Bear finds himself with conflicting loyalties when trouble erupts on his reservation over the construction

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Native American Medicine

Nancy Bonvillain

Surveys the Native American healing and health care practices from the time of first European contact up to the present. Includes a chapter profiling some Native American healers.

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