Provides information on the Haida Indians with a focus on their homes, communities, clothing, food, religion, and more.
Indians of North America
- Author:Nault, JenniferSummary:
- Author:Muckle, Robert JamesSummary:
The First Nations of British Columbia, 2nd edition, is a concise and accessible overview of First Nations peoples, cultures, and issues in the province. Robert J. Muckle familiarizes readers with the history, diversity, and complexity...
- Author:Simpson, CarollSummary:
Yax is too young to accompany his father on a trading expedition and must stay at home with his mother and his younger sister. Disappointed, he goes off to practise his spear-throwing. When he loses his spear, he thinks he is old enough...
- Author:Simpson, CarollSummary:
This is the story of how the first beaver came to be. It tells of a young girl, Reedee, who is born with hair the colour of Mother Earth, not the colour of Raven like the rest of her people. It isn't just her hair that sets Reedee apart...
- Author:Hakim, Joy.Summary:
Presents the history of the Native Americans from earliest times through the arrival of the first Europeans.
- Author:Grey, AndrewSummary:
Will Martin’s racist father, Kevin, hates Native Americans and wants to keep them off his property, never mind that part of the ranch land is sacred ground for the Sioux. When they request access for prayer, Kevin refuses—but Will doesn...
- Author:Merasty, Joseph AugusteSummary:
- Author:Carpenter, David, Merasty, Joseph AugusteSummary:
"This memoir offers a courageous and intimate chronicle of life in a residential school. Now a retired fisherman and trapper, the author was one of an estimated 150,000 First Nations, Inuit, and Metis children who were taken from...
- Author:Turner, Nancy J.Summary:
- Author:Koopmans, CarolSummary:
Provides information on the Denesuline also known as the Chipewyan Indians with a focus on their homes, communities, clothing, food, religion, and more.
- Author:Banting, ErinnSummary:
Provides information on the Cree Indians with a focus on their homes, communities, clothing, food, religion, and more.
- Author:Peterson, TracieSummary:
From her favorite hilltop perch, the unadorned beauty of Montana fills Dianne Chadwick with serenity and purpose. But fear gnaws at that peace, for her fiancé, Cole Selby, has yet to return from his journey east. When accidents and...
- Author:Shrake, EdwinSummary:
Doc Swift -- half Cherokee, half Irish, part medical doctor, past healer -- seeks the supernatural creature who guards the treasures and wisdom of his tribal ancestors. But first he needs to find the German settler named Gruber who had...
- Author:Rebus, AnnaSummary:
Provides information on the Blackfoot Indians with a focus on their homes, communities, clothing, food, religion, and more.
- Author:Erdrich, LouiseSummary:
In the 1840s, in Omakayas's seventh spring, she helps her Ojibwa family build a summer home on an island in Lake Superior. That winter during a smallpox outbreak, Omakayas shows her devotion to her family and learns about her...
- Author:Erdrich, LouiseSummary:
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.
- Author:Erdrich, LouiseSummary:
Omakayas and her family live on the land her people call the Island of the Golden-Breasted Woodpecker. Although the "chimookoman," white people, encroach more and more on their land, life continues much as it always has: every summer...
- Author:Hobbs, WillSummary:
As he searches for his uncle through the rugged Southwest canyon country, fourteen-year-old Clay becomes involved with a group of Navajo Indians who are trying to save some of the last wild mustangs.
- Author:Kissock, HeatherSummary:
Provides information on the Algonquin Indians with a focus on their homes, communities, clothing, food, religion, and more.
- Author:Alexie, ShermanSummary:
Budding cartoonist Junior leaves his troubled school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white farm town school where the only other Indian is the school mascot.