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• Hiawatha and the Peacemaker

  Robertson, Robbie,

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  Hiawatha, a Mohawk, is plotting revenge for the murder of his wife and daughters by the evil Onondaga Chief, Tadodaho, when he meets the Great Peacemaker, who helps him instead bring the nations together in unity rather than war.

• Crossing Bok Chitto

  a Choctaw Tale of Friendship & Freedom

  Tingle, Tim

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  A story from the 1800s in which a Choctaw girl becomes friends with a slave boy from a plantation. When she finds out that his family is in trouble, she helps them cross to freedom.

• The Rough-face Girl

  Martin, Rafe, 1946-

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  An Algonquin Indian version of Cinderella.

• Native American Heroes

  Osceola, Tecumseh & Cochise

  McGovern, Ann

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  The stories of Osceola, Tecumseh, and Cochise, Native American heroes who each fought to protect his tribe and to defend his people's right to live on their own lands. Tecumseh and the Shawnees faced did it right here in Indiana Territory.

• Do All Indians Live in Tipis?

  Questions and Answers From the National Museum of the American Indian

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  Native staff members at the National Museum of the American Indian have answered lots of questions over the years. This book presents nearly 100 of their answers correcting many deeply embedded stereotypes while sharing about diverse Native…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Buffalo Bird Girl

  a Hidatsa Story

  Nelson, S. D.

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  The story of the childhood of Buffalo Bird Woman, a Hidatsa Indian born in 1839, whose community along the Missouri River in the Dakotas.

• Trickster

  Native American Tales : a Graphic Collection

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  In Native American traditions, the trickster in a story can be a coyote or rabbit or raccoon or raven. In this book 24 Native storytellers are paired with 24 comic artists to tell cultural tales from across America.

• Turtle Island

  the Story of North America's First People

  Yellowhorn, Eldon, 1956-

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  This book tells the stories of Indigenous peoples of the Americas from the end of the Ice Age to the arrival of the Europeans. You'll find out what people ate, what they made in art, and how they adapted to the land to survive.

• The Legend of the Bluebonnet

  An Old Tale of Texas

  DePaola, Tomie, 1934-2020

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  A Comanche Indian legend of how the bluebonnet came to be - vivid blue flowers which cover the Texas hills in the springtime and are the state flower of Texas.

• Before Columbus

  the Americas of 1491

  Mann, Charles C.

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  This study of Native American societies shows that the people of North and South America lived in cities, built pyramids before the Egyptians, and farmed the rainforests.

• Red Cloud

  a Lakota Story of War and Surrender

  Nelson, S. D.,

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  A leader among the Lakota during the 1860s, The story of Chief Red Cloud, a leader of the Lakota in the 1860s. He is the only Native American to win a war against the U.S. Army.

• Tecumseh

  Speech at Vincennes

  Sjonger, Rebecca,

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  Tecumseh was Shawnee warrior and chief, who was well known for being a good speaker. He wanted to unite Indigenous groups in the United States and Canada to prevent the loss of their territory. This book features a memorable speech he made in 1810…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sitting Bull

  Lakota Warrior and Defender of His People

  Nelson, S. D.,

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  The story of the life of Sitting Bull, one of the greatest Lakota/Sioux warriors and chiefs who ever lived.

• Chester Nez and the Unbreakable Code

  a Navajo Code Talker's Story

  Bruchac, Joseph, 1942-

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  The story of Chester Nez who used his Navajo language to help create an unbreakable military code during WWII.

• Paiute Princess

  the Story of Sarah Winnemucca

  Ray, Deborah Kogan, 1940-

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  The life of the Northern Paiute leader Sarah Winnemucca and how she became advocate on behalf of her tribe.

• How Raven Got His Crooked Nose

  An Alaskan Dena'ina Fable

  Atwater, Barbara J.,

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  Chulyen, a trickster raven, loses his nose in an embarrassing incident, but vows to get it back.

• In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse

  Marshall, Joseph, 1945-2025

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  Jimmy travels with his grandfather, Nyles High Eagle, to learn about his Lakota heritage while visiting places significant in the life of Crazy Horse, the Lakota leader and warrior.

• The Spirit Trackers

  Bourdeau Waboose, Jan

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  The story of the Windigo, the Night Spirit of Winter, told by an uncle to two Aboriginal cousins, about the tracking of the feared creature into the forest.

• Raven Finds the Daylight and Other Native American Stories

  Levitt, Paul M.,

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  An anthology of Native American stories.

• Children of the Tipi

  Life in the Buffalo Days

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  What it was like to be a Plains Indian child.