United States: Native Americans

• Bruchac, Joseph, 1942-
  A boy called Slow : the true story of Sitting Bull
  Educ. Res. E 99 .D1 S567 1994
• Miles, Miska.
  Annie and the Old One
  A Navajo girl unravels a day's weaving on a rug whose completion, she believes, will mean the death of her grandmother.
  Educ. Res. PS 3563 .I3717 A5
• Highwater, Jamake.
  Anpao : an American Indian odyssey
  Traditional tales from North American Indian tribes woven into one story that relates the adventures of one boy as he grows to manhood.
  Educ. Res. E 98 .F6 H58
• Seattle, Chief, 1790-1866.
  Brother eagle, sister sky : a message from Chief Seattle
  A Suquamish Indian chief describes his people's respect and love for the earth, and concern for its destruction.
  Educ. Res. E 98 .L3 S39 1991
• Freedman, Russell.
  Buffalo hunt
  Examines the importance of the buffalo in the lore and day-to-day life of the Indian tribes of the Great Plains and describes hunting methods and the uses found for each part of the animal that could not be eaten.
  Educ. Res. E 78 .G73 F73 1988
• Goble, Paul.
  Buffalo woman
  A young hunter marries a female buffalo in the form of a beautiful maiden, but when his people reject her he must pass several tests before being allowed to join the buffalo nation.
  Educ. Res. E 98 .F6 G62 1984
• Vivian, R. Gwinn.
  Chaco Canyon
  Relates the nineteenth-century discovery of cliff dwellings in the Chaco Canyon of northwest New Mexico, the excavations of the ancient ruins, and what the artifacts reveal about the civilization of the ancient Pueblo Indians.
  Educ. Res. E 99 .P9 V573 2002
• Ashabranner, Brent K., 1921-
  Children of the Maya : a Guatemalan Indian odyssey
  Examines the plight of Mayans who have fled the violent political situation in Guatemala and settled in a community in southern Florida.
  Educ. Res. F 1465.2 .K36 A84 1
• McDermott, Gerald.
  Coyote : a trickster tale from the American Southwest
  Coyote, who has a nose for trouble, insists that the crows teach him how to fly, but the experience ends in disaster for him.
  Educ. Res. E 78 .S7 M136 1994
• Bruchac, Joseph, 1942-
  Crazy horse's vision
  A story based on the life of the dedicated young Lakota boy who grew up to be one of the bravest defenders of his people.
  Educ. Res. Bushner PS 3552 .R7
• Alder, Elizabeth.
  Crossing the panther's path
  Sixteen-year-old Billy Caldwell, son of a British soldier and a Mohawk woman, leaves school to join Tecumseh in his efforts to prevent the Americans from taking any more land from the Indians in the Northwest Territory.
  Educ. Res. PS 3551 .L34 C7 200
• Bierhorst, John.
  A cry from the earth : music of the North American Indians
  An overview of American Indian music and dance which includes a discussion of their instruments, the structure of their music, and the uses of music in Indian life.
  Educ. Res. ML 3557 .B53 1992
• Dorris, Michael.
  Guests
  Moss and Trouble, an Algonquin boy and girl, struggle with the problems of growing up in the Massachusetts area during the time of the first Thanksgiving.
  Educ. Res. PS 3554 .O695 G8 19
• Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882.
  Song of Hiawatha
  Describes in verse the boyhood of the legendary Iroquois Indian, Hiawatha.
  Educ. Res. PS 2267 .A35 1984
• Santiago, Chiori.
  Home to Medicine Mountain
  Two young Maidu Indian brothers sent to live at a government-run Indian residential school in California in the 1930s find a way to escape and return home for the summer.
  Educ. Res. E 99 .M18 S36 1998
• Van Laan, Nancy.
  In a circle long ago : a treasury of native lore from North America
  Educ. Res. Bushner E 98 .F6 V3
• Freedman, Russell.
  Indian chiefs
  Biographies of six Western Indian chiefs who led their people in a historic moment of crisis, when a decision had to be made about fighting or cooperating with the white pioneers encroaching on their grounds.
  Educ. Res. E 89 .F73 1987
• George, Jean Craighead, 1919-
  Julie of the wolves. Pictures by John Schoenherr
  While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.
  Educ. Res. PS 3513 .E67 J8
• Freedman, Russell.
  The life and death of Crazy Horse
  A biography of the Oglala leader who relentlessly resisted the white man's attempt to take over Indian lands.
  Educ. Res. E 99 .O3 C72214 199
• Bierhorst, John.
  The Naked bear : folktales of the Iroquois
  A collection of sixteen traditional tales told by the Iroquois Indians, some featuring talking animals and some presenting terrifying flesh-eating creatures such as the Naked Bear, the Stone Coat, and the Whirlwinds.
  Educ. Res. E 99 .I7 N35 1987
• Begay, Shonto.
  Navajo : visions and voices across the Mesa
  Educ. Res. Bushner PS 3552 .E3
• Holling, Holling Clancy.
  Paddle-to-the-Sea
  Educ. Res. PS 3515 .O4432 P3 c
• McDermott, Gerald.
  Raven : a trickster tale from the Pacific Northwest
  Raven, a Pacific Coast Indian trickster, sets out to find the sun.
  Educ. Res. E 99 .N77 M33 1993
• Matcheck, Diane.
  The sacrifice
  When her father's death leaves her orphaned and an outcast among her Apsaalooka (Crow) people, a fifteen-year-old sets out to avenge his death and prove that she, not her dead twin brother, is destined to be the Great One.
  Educ. Res. PS 3563 .A83522 S3
• Fleischman, Paul.
  Saturnalia
  In 1681 in Boston, fourteen-year-old William, a Narraganset Indian captured in a raid six years earlier, leads a productive and contented life as a printer's apprentice but is increasingly anxious to make some connection with his Indian past.
  Educ. Res. PS 3556 .L43 S3 199
• O'Dell, Scott, 1898-1989.
  Sing down the moon
  A young Navajo girl recounts the events of 1864 when her tribe was forced to march to Fort Sumner as prisoners of the white soldiers.
  Educ. Res. PS 3565 .D38 S5
• Marrin, Albert.
  Sitting Bull and his world
  Discusses the life of the Hunkpapa chief who is remembered for his defeat of General Custer at Little Big Horn.
  Educ. Res. E 99 .D1 S6124 2000
• O'Dell, Scott, 1898-1989.
  Streams to the river, river to the sea : a novel of Sacagawea
  A young Indian woman, accompanied by her infant and cruel husband, experiences joy and heartbreak when she joins the Lewis and Clark Expedition seeking a way to the Pacific.
  Educ. Res. PS 3565 .D38 S7 198
• De Wit, Dorothy.
  The Talking stone : an anthology of native American tales and legends
  Twenty-seven tales of Native Americans from nine geographic regions of North America.
  Educ. Res. E 98 .F6 T23
• Erdrich, Louise.
  The birchbark house
  Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe, lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847.
  Educ. Res. PS 3555 .R42 B52 19
• Fritz, Jean.
  The double life of Pocahontas
  A biography of the famous American Indian princess, emphasizing her life-long adulation of John Smith and the roles she played in two very different cultures.
  Educ. Res. E 99 .P85 P573 1983
• Goble, Paul.
  The girl who loved wild horses
  Though she is fond of her people, a girl prefers to live among the wild horses where she is truly happy and free.
  Educ. Res. PS 3557 .O25 G5
• Goble, Paul.
  Paul Goble gallery : three Native American stories
  Her seven brothers -- The gift of the sacred dog -- The girl who loved wild horses.
  Educ. Res. E 78 .G73 G63 1999
• Rice, Bebe Faas.
  The place at the edge of the earth
  At first unhappy with a new stepfather and a new school on a military base that was once an off-reservation boarding school for Indian children, thirteen-year-old Jenny finds herself changing as she makes two new friends, one the son of the base commander and the other the ghost of Jonah Flying Cloud, who died there in 1880.
  Educ. Res. PS 3568 .I272 P5 20
• Rockwood, Joyce.
  To spoil the sun
  Omens forewarn Rain Dove and the other Cherokee Indians who live in Mulberry Town, a sixteenth-century village in the southern Appalachians, of the disease and upheaval that will come upon them following the arrival of Spanish explorers.
  Educ. Res. SELECT PS 3558 .U29
• Creech, Sharon.
  Walk two moons
  Educ. Res. PS 3553 .R43 W3 199
• Armer, Laura Adams, 1874-1963.
  Waterless mountain, by Laura Adams Armer, illustrated by Sidney Armer and Laura Adams Armer
  Younger Brother learns the songs and stories of his Navajo tribe.
  Educ. Res. PS 3501 .R544 W3 c.
• Baylor, Byrd.
  When clay sings
  The daily life and customs of prehistoric southwest Indian tribes are retraced from the designs on the remains of their pottery.
  Educ. Res. E 78 .S7 B36
• Baker, Olaf.
  Where the buffaloes begin
  After hearing the legend retold by the tribe's oldest member, Little Wolf hopes to someday witness the beginning of the buffaloes at the sacred lake.
  Educ. Res. PR 6003 .A48 W5 198
• Bushyhead, Robert H., 1914-
  Yonder Mountain : a Cherokee legend
  A Cherokee chief chooses his successor by asking three candidates to climb a mountain, thus testing their character and strength.
  Educ. Res. E 99 .C5 B8887 2002
• O'Dell, Scott, 1898-1989.
  Zia
  A young Indian girl, Zia, caught between the traditional world of her mother and the present world of the Mission, is helped by her aunt Karana whose story was told in the Island of the Blue Dolphins.
  Educ. Res. PS 3565 .D38 Z5