Indians of North America
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Who Was Maria Tallchief?
$6.99 Add to cartBorn in 1925, Maria Tallchief spent part of her childhood on an Osage reservation in Oklahoma. With the support of her family and world-renowned choreographer George Balanchine, she rose to the top of… [more below]
- Series: Who Was…?
- Author: Gourley, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: July 22 2002
- ISBN10: 0448426757
- Language: English
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The Legend of the Cape May Diamond
$17.95 Read moreAt the southernmost tip of New Jersey lie the resort town of Cape May and its sparkling sandy beaches, sheltering the Delaware Bay. Formed by melting glaciers thousands of years past, the Delaware Riv… [more below]
- Series: Legend (Sleeping Bear)
- Author: Noble, Trinka Hakes
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: May 15 2007
- ISBN10: 1585362794
- Language: English
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Living Ghosts and Mischievous Monsters: Chilling American Indian Stories
$26.99 Read morePerfect for fans of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark! A shiver-inducing collection of short stories to read under the covers, from a breadth of American Indian nations.
Dark figures in the night. An o
- Author: Jones, Dan Sasuweh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1338681621
- Language: English
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The Case of Windy Lake
$11.95 Add to cartSam, Otter, Atim, and Chickadee are four inseparable cousins growing up on the Windy Lake First Nation. Nicknamed the Mighty Muskrats for their habit of laughing, fighting, and exploring together, the… [more below]
- Series: Mighty Muskrats Mystery #1
- Author: Hutchinson, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 18 2019
- ISBN10: 1772600857
- Language: English
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Native Plant Stories
$24.95 Add to cartThese mythical stories draw upon legends from eighteen Native American tribes and illustrate the importance of plant life in Native American traditions.
- Author: Bruchac, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 01 1995
- ISBN10: 1555912125
- Language: English
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Tallchief: America’s Prima Ballerina
$8.99 Add to cartGrowing up on the Osage Indian reservation, Maria Tallchief was a gifted pianist and dancer. According to Osage tradition, women are not permitted to dance, but Maria’s parents recognized her gifts an… [more below]
- Author: Tallchief, Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0142300187
- Language: English
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Chia and the Fox Man: An Alaskan Dena’ina Fable
$32.99 Add to cartA beautifully illustrated Alaska Native story of a young boy and his encounter with the fabled Fox Man, and how doing the right thing isn’t always easy but important in the end.
Life is hard for Chia.
- Author: Atwater, Barbara J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 151326267X
- Language: English
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What’s in a Bead?
$21.95 Add to cartTessa loves how her grandmother always smells of campfire stories. Mom says it’s because Kohkom spends her days sewing beautiful beads onto smoked hides. Inspired, Tessa asks Kohkom to teach her beadi… [more below]
- Author: Borgford, Kelsey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 24
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 177260366X
- Language: English
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Bearstone
$7.99 Add to cartA Dramatic Tale of Grizzlies and Gold
Fourteen-year-old Cloyd Atcitty has been skipping school for years. He’s run away from a group home for Native American boys, and is now being sent to work for W… [more below]- Author: Hobbs, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 068987071X
- Language: English
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Bertha Parker: The First Woman Indigenous American Archaeologist
$14.99 Read moreThe Queens of STEAM series explores the life and work of women who’ve made a big impact in a specific area of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math). In this edition, newly independen
- Series: Queens of Steam #2
- Author: Bolte, Mari
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: April 23, 2024
- ISBN10: 1223187551
- Language: English
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Savage Sam
$8.99 Add to cart“What Mr. Gipson has written is the story of a grim situation, a desperate chase, filled with brutality and heroism, yet he has written it with a sense of young wonder and even, at time, with humor.”
- Author: Gipson, Fred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0060803770
- Language: English
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The Case of the Pilfered Pin
$12.95 Read moreThe Windy Lake First Nation’s lands have been shared with cottagers for fifty years, but no one can agree on where the reserve land ends. The only thing that can prove the boundary is a steel surveyor
- Series: Mighty Muskrats Mystery
- Author: Hutchinson, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1772603708
- Language: English
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A Picture Book of Sacagawea
$8.99 Add to cartA concise look at the legendary Shoshone woman who led explorers Lewis and Clark on their route from the Dakotas to the Pacific Ocean.
Born in the Rocky Mountains, Sacagawea was taken captive and held- Series: Picture Book Biographies
- Author: Adler, David A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 28
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0823416658
- Language: English
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Swift Fox All Along
$18.95 Read moreWhat does it mean to be Mi’kmaq? And if Swift Fox can’t find the answer, will she ever feel like part of her family?
When Swift Fox’s father picks her up to go visit her aunties, uncles, and cousins,
- Author: Thomas, Rebecca Lea
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1773214489
- Language: English
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Hiawatha
$8.99 Add to cartA School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
Rich in imagery and detail, this exquisitely rendered picture book introduces readers to one of America’s favorite classic poem
A Booklist Editor’s Choice- Series: Puffin Pied Piper
- Author: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0140558829
- Language: English
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The Seventh Direction: A Legend of Creation
$18.95 Add to cartA Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection!
In this enlightening legend shared by Lakota Elder Kevin Locke, Wakȟáŋ Tȟáŋka (The Great Spirit) created the entire world in seven
- Author: Locke, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 44
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1778540139
- Language: English
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Knots on a Counting Rope
$9.99 Add to cartIn Knots on a Counting Rope, Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault tell a poignant story about a boy’s emerging confidence in facing his blindness in this beautiful children’s picture book illustrated
- Series: Reading Rainbow Books
- Author: Martin, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 15 1997
- ISBN10: 0805054790
- Language: English
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Indian Captive: A Newbery Honor Award Winner
$9.99 Add to cartIn this classic frontier adventure, Lois Lenski reconstructs the real-life story of Mary Jemison, who was captured in a raid as young girl and raised among the Seneca Indians.
Meticulously researched
- Author: Lenski, Lois
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 18 1995
- ISBN10: 0064461629
- Language: English
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Encounter
$18.99 Read moreA powerful imagining by two Native creators of a first encounter between two very different people that celebrates our ability to acknowledge difference and find common ground–with art by New York Ti… [more below]
- Author: Luby, Brittany
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0316449180
- Language: English
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Native American Thought of It: Amazing Inventions and Innovations
$9.95 Add to cartEveryone knows that moccasins, canoes and toboggans were invented by the Aboriginal people of North America, but did you know that they also developed their own sign language, syringe needles and a se… [more below]
- Series: We Thought of It (Paperback)
- Author: Landon, Rocky
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: February 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1554511542
- Language: English
