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41) The spirit woman
Author
Publisher
Books in Motion
Language
English
Description
An historian who is convinced that the memoirs of 19th Century Shoshone heroine Sacajawea are stashed somewhere on the reservation, has disappeared.
42) Walks the fire
Author
Series
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Jesse King doesn't want to go west, but her husband has never been all that concerned with what his wife wants. When tragedy strikes, Jesse is rescued by the Lakota Sioux, among whom she finds unexpected peace, a sense of belonging, and the love of a lifetime. A compelling tale of one woman's extraordinary faith as God leads her from prairie schooner to tepee, from tepee to frontier fort and on to a growing state capitol.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Author of the National Book Award winner All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy is one of the most provocative American stylists to emerge in the last century. The striking novel Blood Meridian offers an unflinching narrative of the brutality that accompanied the push west on the 1850s Texas frontier. His birth ended his mother's life in Tennessee. Scrawny and wiry, he runs away at the age of 14. As he makes his way westward, the impoverished and...
44) Wandering stars
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Wandering Stars traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Industrial School for Indians through to the shattering aftermath of Orvil Redfeather's shooting in There There"--
"Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle,where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"On Memorial Day, 1958, as the people of Jewel, Minnesota gather to remember and honor the sacrifice of so many sons in the wars of the past, the half-clothed body of wealthy landowner Jimmy Quinn is found floating in the Alabaster River, dead from a shotgun blast. Investigation of the murder falls to Sheriff Brody Dern, a highly decorated war hero who still carries the physical and emotional scars from his military service. Even before Dern has the...
46) The Haunted mesa
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
The Navajo called them the Anasazi, the "ancient enemy," and their abandoned cities haunt the canyons and plateaus of the Southwest. For centuries the sudden disappearance of these people baffled historians. Summoned to a dark desert plateau by a desperate letter from an old friend, renowned investigator Mike Raglan is drawn into a world of mystery, violence, and explosive revelations. Crossing a border beyond the laws of man and nature, he will learn...
Author
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2001]
Language
English
Description
On his 9th birthday, Omri receives a cupboard that magically brings his 3 inches toy Indian Little Bear to life. They bond, embarking on an amazing adventure, until Omri's friend Patrick brings a 6-shooting cowboy to life and the secret is in danger of being revealed.
Author
Publisher
Scott, Foresman
Pub. Date
[1950]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: Young Major Heyward is assigned to escort Cora and Alice Munro through the dangerous frontier wilderness and deliver them safely to their father at Fort William Henry. But their guide, the evil Magua, leads the two women and their escorts into a trap. The frontiersman Hawkeye and his Mohican companions set out to rescue the kidnapped women, but the sly and clever Magua is the most murderous of enemies.
To help students experience...
49) Two tribes
Author
Publisher
Heartdrum, HarperAlley, imprints of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Mia is still getting used to living with her mom and stepfather, and to the new role their Jewish identity plays in their home. Feeling out of place at home and at her Jewish day school, Mia finds herself thinking more and more about her Muscogee father, who lives with his new family in Oklahoma. Her mother doesn't want to talk about him, but Mia can't help but feel like she's missing a part of herself without him in her life. Soon, Mia makes a plan...
50) Preacher's rage
Author
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For the greatest trapper in the country, there's no place like the Rocky Mountains. Preacher and his son Hawk are riding the High Lonesome when the clear mountain air is split by a girl's savage screams. A gang of ruthless trappers has kidnapped a Crow woman, but before they escape with her, Preacher and Hawk burst out of the tree line, guns spitting fire. They drive the trappers off, only to find that she's not Crow, but white. Caroline has been...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
“For sheer adventure L’Amour is in top form.”—Kirkus Reviews
Here is the kind of authentically detailed epic novel that has become Louis L’Amour’s hallmark. It is the compelling story of U.S. Air Force Major Joe Mack, a man born out of time. When his experimental aircraft is forced down in Russia and he escapes a Soviet prison camp, he must call upon the ancient skills of his Indian...
Here is the kind of authentically detailed epic novel that has become Louis L’Amour’s hallmark. It is the compelling story of U.S. Air Force Major Joe Mack, a man born out of time. When his experimental aircraft is forced down in Russia and he escapes a Soviet prison camp, he must call upon the ancient skills of his Indian...
52) There there
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary fiction. Tommy Orange's There There introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career. "We all came to the powwow for different reasons. The messy, dangling threads of our lives got pulled into a braid--tied to the back of everything...
53) The Jackals
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
Johnstone. Keeping the west wild. FATE BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER. IT MAY ALSO SEND THEM STRAIGHT TO HELL. Alone, these justice fighters are dangerous enough. Together they're a wild bunch known as the Jackals. Now, national bestselling authors William W. and J.A. Johnstone are turning them loose . . . With Apaches on the prod, ex-cavalry sergeant Sean Keegan, bounty hunter Jed Breen, and ex-Texas Ranger Matt McCulloch take shelter in a West Texas way...
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A man lunges in front of a car. An elderly woman silently drowns herself. A corpse sits up in its coffin and speaks. On this reservation, not all is what it seems, in this new spine-chilling mythological horror from the author of Sisters of the Lost Nation. All Noemi Broussard wanted was a fresh start. With a new boyfriend who actually treats her right and a plan to move from the reservation she grew up on-just like her beloved Uncle Louie before...
Author
Series
Publisher
Nebraska Paperback
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A young Sioux warrior earns the right to be called historian for his tribe after numerous adventures and trials which test his ability to tell the story of his people with truth and courage.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Like Golden Hill, Cahokia Jazz inhabits a different version of America, and like Golden Hill it has a propulsive and brilliantly twisty plot set within a fully imagined world. Only this world is full of fog, cigarette smoke, dubious motives, danger, and dark deeds. And in the main character of Joe Barrow, we have a hero of truly heroic proportions, and a troubled soul to fall in love with. One snowy night at the end of winter, Barrow and his partner...
57) Berry song
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As a young Tlingit girl collects wild berries over the seasons, she sings with her Grandmother as she learns to speak to the land and listen when the land speaks back.
58) Hondo
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
He was etched by the desert's howling winds, a big, broad-shouldered man who knew the ways of the Apache and the ways of staying alive. She was a woman alone raising a young son on a remote Arizona ranch. And between Hondo Lane and Angie Lowe was the warrior Vittoro, whose people were preparing to rise against the white men. Now the pioneer woman, the gunman, and the Apache warrior are caught in a drama of love, war, and honor.
59) A letter for Bob
Author
Publisher
Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Ever since the day Mom and Dad brought Bob home from the car dealership, Bob has been a part of Katie's family. Bob has taken them all over, from powwows to vacations to time spent with faraway family. Bob has been there in sad and scary times and for some of the family's most treasured memories. But after many miles, it's time for the family to say goodbye to Bob ..."--
Katie writes a goodbye letter to her family's car that she named Bob, thanking...
60) Taggart
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
His name was Taggart and he rode with a price on his head through the bloodred canyons of Apache country. Behind him was a ruthless bounty hunter the deadliest lawman in the West. In front of him was a fortune in gold and a pretty young woman hell-bent on carrying that fortune to safety. Suddenly Taggart was faced with a choice. He could either keep riding and leave the stubborn lady to fate and the Apaches. Or he could stay and help her make it out...
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