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Author
Series
Five trails west volume 1
Publisher
Five Star, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
This sweeping American epic reveals the story of the century-long blood feud between two rival Cherokee chiefs from the early years of the United States. Dramatic, far-reaching, and unforgettable, this book paints a portrait of these two inspirational leaders who worked together to lift their people to the height of culture and learning as the most civilized tribe in the nation, and then drop them to the depths of ruin and despair as they turned against...
45) Talking leaves
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"The story of Sequoyah and the creation of the Cherokee syllabary, as told by his thirteen year old son"--
Author
Publisher
Vista Higher Learning/Santillana USA
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
Despite the many obstacles, from resistance to female leadership to a life-threatening accident, Wilma's courageous dedication to serving her people led to her election as the first female chief of the Cherokee Nation. As a leader and advocate, she reinvigorated her constituency by empowering them to identify and solve community problems. The touching prose by award-winning author Doreen Rappaport is interwoven with Wilma's own words in this expertly...
Author
Series
Trail of glory volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
52) Wilma Mankiller
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
The descendant of Cherokee ancestors who had been forced to walk the Trail of Tears, Wilma Mankiller experienced her own forced removal from the land she grew up on as a child. As she got older and learned more about the injustices her people had faced, she dedicated her life to instilling pride in Native heritage and reclaiming Native rights. She went on to become the first woman Principle Chief of the Cherokee Nation. In this chapter book biography...
53) The revenant
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Willemina Hammond fakes credentials to get a teaching position at a school for Cherokee girls in nineteenth-century Oklahoma, she is haunted by the ghost of a drowned student.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Explores America's darkest period: President Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act of 1830 and the forced removal of the Cherokee Nation to Oklahoma in 1838. Trail of tears: Cherokee legacy is presented by Wes Studi and narrated by James Earl Jones.
56) The storyteller
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ziggy's mother disappeared ten years ago, one of the many Native women who have mysteriously gone missing, and Ziggy believes a secret cave may hold the key--so with his sister, Moon, and friends Alice and Corso, he sets out to find the cave and solve the mystery of his family's origins.
Author
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Examining the legacy of racial mixing in Indian Territory through the land and lives of two families, one of Cherokee Freedman descent and one of Muscogee Creek heritage, Darnella Davis's memoir writes a new chapter in the history of racial mixing on the frontier. It is the only book-length account of the intersections between the three races in Indian Territory and Oklahoma written from the perspective of a tribal person and a freedman. The histories...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Award-winning author Eddie Chuculate recounts his experience growing up in rural Oklahoma, from boyhood to young manhood, in an evocative and vivid voice. "Granny was full-blooded Creek, but the Bureau of Indian Affairs insisted she was thirteen-sixteenths. She showed her card to me. I'd sit at the kitchen table and stare at her when she was eating, wondering how you could be thirteen-sixteenths of anything and if so, what part of her constituted...
Series
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
When Europeans arrived in North America, they encountered the Native people. Contrary to stereotype, American Indians were not simply ferocious warriors or peaceable lovers of the land. They were, like all people, an amalgam: charismatic and forward thinking, imaginative and courageous, compassionate and resolute, and, at times, arrogant, vengeful, and reckless. Native peoples valiantly resisted expulsion from their lands and fought the extinction...
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