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Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
1040L
Physical Desc
116 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Discover the amazing story of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas from the end of the Ice Age to the arrival of the Europeans. You'll learn what people ate, how they expressed themselves through art, and how they adapted to the land. Archaeologists have been able to piece together what life may have been like pre-contact-- and how life changed with the arrival of the Europeans.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1998
Lexile measure
1110L
Physical Desc
95 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
History is dramatic-and the renowned, award-winning authors Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier demonstrate this in a compelling series aimed at young readers.
Covering American history from the founding of Jamestown through present day, these volumes explore far beyond the dates and events of a historical chronicle to present a moving illumination of the ideas, opinions, attitudes, and tribulations that led to the birth of this great nation....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
xiv, 226 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Hands-on activities, games, and crafts introduce children to the diversity of Native American cultures and teach them about the people, experiences, and events that have helped shape America, past and present. Nine geographical areas cover a variety of communities such as the Mohawk in the Northeast, Ojibwa in the Midwest, Shoshone in the Great Basin, Apache in the Southwest, Yup'ik in Alaska, and Native Hawaiians. Featuring a look at the lives of...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Lexile measure
AD 770L
Physical Desc
24 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 x 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Simple text and photographs introduce a Native American whose family is Lakota and describe that tribes of Native Americans carried on the traditions of their people.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2022.
Lexile measure
1250L
Physical Desc
176 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"American schoolchildren have long been taught that their country was 'discovered' by Christopher Columbus in 1492. But the history of Native Americans in the United States goes back tens of tens of thousands of years prior to Columbus's and other colonizers' arrivals. So, what's the true history?"--
8) First people
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
192 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
With the help of modern and historic images, innovative page layouts, and compelling first-person accounts, an eye-opening look at the richness and variety of North American natives presents each tribe as an individual, evolving culture, with its own history, artwork, and traditions.
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
119 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
What do people do when their civilization is invaded? Indigenous people have been faced with disease, war, broken promises, and forced assimilation. Despite crushing losses and insurmountable challenges, they formed new nations from the remnants of old ones, they adopted new ideas and built on them, they fought back, and they kept their cultures alive. When the only possible "victory" was survival, they survived. In this follow up to Turtle Island,...
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Lexile measure
1120L
Physical Desc
vii, 85 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Countless herds of majestic buffalo once roamed across the plains and prairies of North America. For at least 10,000 years, the native people hunted the buffalo and depended upon its meat and hide for their survival. But to the Indians, the buffalo was also considered sacred. They saw this abundant, powerful animal as another tribe, one that was closely related to them, and they treated it with great respect and admiration. This book traces the history...
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
xiii, 153 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
The Lakota holy man Black Elk often used the image of a circle or hoop when he spoke of the history of his people, stating that "the power of the World always works in circles, and everything tries to be round." This chronicle of the principal Indian tribes in North America echoes that vision. Folklorist Neil Philip examines the shared experience of many of the First Nations, from their separate existences before whites arrived, to their years of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Scientists spend a lot of time trying to learn about the earliest Americans, but much remains unknown. Who were they? When, how, and from where did they enter the land? What is their relationship to modern Native Americans? Anthropologists develop theories to answer these questions based on the evidence they discover."--
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
NC 1250L
Physical Desc
135 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The North American fur trade, set in motion by the discovery of the New World in the fifteenth century, was this continent's biggest business for over three hundred years. The fur trade influenced every aspect of life, from how Europeans related to the Indians, how and where settlements were built, to how our nation formed. Drawing on primary sources, including the diaries of Ojibwa, American, and French traders of the period, Birchbark Brigade gives...