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Diversity Series:
Celebrating Native Americans!

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Fall 2002

Bibliography of Selected Materials from Western Libraries Collections

BOOKLIST: Specific Topics & Genres

The following books from the Children's and Curriculum Collections were featured in the Fall 2002 Education Featured Topic Display, Diversity Series: Celebrating Native Americans, in Western Libraries. The books have been reshelved in their regular locations on Wilson 4 East. The books are available to check-out for use outside the library. Consult the Western Libraries Online Catalog for location and availability.

Biographical Sources | Curriculum Materials
Fiction - Historical & Contemporary | Folktales, Picture Books, Poetry & Drama | Traditions - History & Culture

Biographical Sources

Apache boy. Don Christie.
CHIL 970.3 A639c
Artists and craftspeople. Arlene Hirschfelder.
CHIL 709.2 H669ar 1994
Charles Eastman : physician, reformer, and Native American leader. Peter Anderson.
CHIL 973.04 .E13an 1992
Cherokee chief; the life of John Ross. Electa Clark.
CHIL 970.3 C522c
Chief Joseph, guardian of his people. Elizabeth Rider Montgomery.
CHIL 970.3 N575m
Chief Joseph of the Nez Perces. Shannon Garst.
CHIL 970.3 N575g
Crazy Horse, Sioux warrior. Enid La Monte Meadowcroft.
CHIL 970.3 O35m
Crowfoot. Carlotta Hacker.
CHIL 970.3 H119cr 1999
Diplomat in warpaint; Chief Alexander McGillivray of the Creeks. Arthur Orrmont.
CHIL 970.3 C913o
Geronimo : the last Apache war chief. Edgar Wyatt.
CHIL 970.3 A639w2
Indian boyhood. Charles Alexander Eastman.
CHIL 970.3 E13e 1971
Indian chiefs. Russell Freedman.
CHIL 970.3 .F853i 1987
Joseph, chief of the Nez Perce. Dean Pollock.
CHIL 970.3 N575po
Kahtahah. Frances Lackey Paul.
CHIL 970.004 P324ka 1976
Kevin Cloud; Chippewa boy in the city. Carol Ann Bales and Kevin Cloud.
CHIL 970.3 C541c
The life and death of Crazy Horse. Russell Freedman.
CHIL 970.3 O35f 1996
The Micmac. Stephen A. Davis.
CHIL 971.5 D264mi 1991
Moolack, young salmon fisherman. Mary M. Worthylake.
CHIL 970.4 W934m
Native American doctor : the story of Susan LaFlesche Picotte. Jeri Ferris.
CHIL 610.9 .P598f 1991
North American Indian tribal chiefs. Karen Liptak.
CHIL 970.004 L766no 1992
Osceola; Seminole war chief. Wyatt Blassingame.
CHIL 970.3 S471b
Pocahontas and Captain John Smith; the story of the Virginia colony. Marie Abrams Lawson.
CHIL 975.5 P739L
Pocahontas, Indian princess. Katharine E. Wilkie.
CHIL 975.5 P739w
Political leaders and peacemakers. Victoria Sherrow.
CHIL 970.004 S5538po 1994
Quanah Parker. Len Hilts.
CHIL 970.3 .P242h 1987
Sacagawea, Indian guide. Wyatt Blassingame.
CHIL 970.3 S559b
Scholars, writers, and professionals. Jonathan W. Bolton and Claire M. Wilson.
CHIL 920 B694sc 1994
Sequoyah: leader of the Cherokees. Alice Lee Marriott.
CHIL 970.3 C522m
Sequoyah's gift : a portrait of the Cherokee leader. Janet Klausner.
CHIL 973 S579kL 1993
The shaman's nephew : a life in the far North. Simon Tookoome with Sheldon Oberman.
CHIL 971.9 T669sh 2000
Sitting Bull. Lucille Recht Penner.
CHIL 970.3 D135p 1995
Sitting Bull and his world. Albert Marrin.
CHIL 970.3 D135m 2000
Sitting Bull, great Sioux chief. LaVere Anderson.
CHIL 970.3 D135a
Spiritual leaders. Paul Robert Walker.
CHIL 299 W183sp 1994
Squanto, friend of the white men. Clyde Robert Bulla.
CHIL 970.3 W243b
Stories of traditional Navajo life and culture = Alk`idáá` yéék`ehgo Diné Kéédahat`inéé Baa Nahane`/ by twenty-two Navajo men and women Ed. Broderick H. Johnson.
CHIL 970.3 N317s
Tecumseh, destiny's warrior. David C. Cooke.
CHIL 970.3 S537c
Tecumseh, Shawnee warrior-statesman. James McCague.
CHIL 970.3 S537m
Tinker and the medicine men; the story of a Navajo boy of Monument Valley. Bernard Wolf.
CHIL 970.3 N317w
Toyanuki's rabbit : story of a Paiute boy. Lois Harvey.
CHIL 970.3 .P149h
Voices of the Alamo. Sherry Garland.
CHIL 976.4 G233vo 2000
White Squaw : the true story of Jennie Wiley. Arville Wheeler.
CHIL 970.3 .C522w
Wilma P. Mankiller : chief of the Cherokee. Charnan Simon.
CHIL 973.049 .M278s 1991

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Curriculum Materials

American Indian contributors to American life. John M. Franco.
CURRIC E E BENE amcoin
The American Indian in America. Jayne Clark Jones.
CURRIC E E LERN inamame
The Buffalo of the Flathead. The Salish (Flathead) Cultural Committee.
CURRIC E F INRS level 5 bk.9
One of the selections from the Indian Reading Series. The Indian Reading Series of stories and legends of the Northwest provides over 100 leveled books for elementary grades, and includes reading games and teacher's manuals. The series was developed by the Pacific Northwest Indian Reading and Language Development Program, Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, and was published under the direction of the Educational Equity Group/Multicultural/Bilingual Division of the National Institute of Education. A few of the titles at a variety of levels are listed on this guide and are on display. The complete series can be accessed online via the library catalog, and is located in the Curriculum area under the main call number CURRIC E F INRS.

Chief Mountain's medicine. Members of the Gros Ventre Elders Board.
CURRIC E F INRS level 4 bk.12
Coyote and the stars. Members of the Warm Springs Reservation Committee.
CURRIC E F INRS level 1 bk.1
Far Out, a rodeo horse : a Crow story. Henry Real Bird.
CURRIC E F INRS level 1 bk.9
Fisherman on the Puyallup. Jeanne Heuving.
CURRIC E F UIAT 1978
Friends. Blackfeet Indians.
CURRIC E F INRS level 1 bk.16
Helpers. Blackfeet Indians.
CURRIC E F INRS level 1 bk.8
The history and culture of the Indians of Washington State : a curriculum guide. TTT Project and the Center for Indian Teacher Education, College of Education, University of Washington.
CURRIC E F WSPI 1975
A Horse's tale : ten adventures in one hundred years. Shanna Stevenson, et al.
CURRIC E F PARE 1989
Indians of Washington State. Yvonne Peterson.
CURRIC E F WSPI 1981
Inkdomi and the buffalo : an Assiniboine story. Jerome Fourstar
CURRIC E F INRS level 3 bk.12
Keepers of the animals : Native American stories and wildlife activities for children. Michael J. Caduto and Joseph Bruchac.
CURRIC E QHC FULC 1991
Keepers of the night : Native American stories and nocturnal activities for children. Michael J. Caduto and Joseph Bruchac.
CURRIC E E FULC 1994
Life patterns in native Washington. Marilyn L. Simpson.
Curric E F EDRN 1996
The mamook book : activities for learning about the Northwest Coast Indians. Sharon Mathers, Linda Skimner and Terry Tafoya.
CURRIC E F UIAT 1979 mam
Napi and the bullberries. Blackfeet Indians.
CURRIC E F INRS level 2 bk.17
Native Americans : people of the desert. [electronic resource] Peter Matulavich.
CURRIC E E RAIN desert 1999
Native Americans : people of the northwest coast. [electronic resource] Pete Matulavich.
CURRIC E E RAIN north 1999
Native Americans : people of the plains. [electronic resource] Peter Matulavich.
CURRIC E E RAIN plains 1998
Story of the seasons. Members of the Warm Springs Reservation Committee.
CURRIC E F INRS level 3 bk.1
Thoughts from the shadow of a flame : teacher's manual, level IV. Robin Butterfield and Colleen Larvie.
CURRIC E F INRS level 4 Tchr
Tribal design. [videocassette] Written and produced by CRIZMAC. Guides by Stevie Mack and Deborah Christine.
Curric E N CRIZ 1991
Tsapah talks of Pheasant, and other stories.
CURRIC E F INRS level 6
Ways of the Lushootseed people : ceremonies & traditions of Northern Puget Sound Indians. United Indians of All Tribes Foundation.
CURRIC E F UIAT 1980
Why the codfish has a red face : a Skokomish legend. Georgia Miller.
CURRIC E F INRS level 2 bk.3

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Fiction - Historical & Contemporary

All the buffalo returning. Dorothy M. Johnson.
CHIL F J667a
The arrow over the door. Joseph Bruchac.
CHIL F B8878ar 1998
Barefoot a thousand miles. Patsey Gray.
CHIL F G781ba
Bird of passage. Mildred Teal.
CHIL F T253b
Black diamonds : a search for Arctic treasure. James Houston.
CHIL F H843bj 1986
A brown bird singing. Frances Wosmek.
CHIL F W935br 1986
Buffalo woman. Dorothy M. Johnson.
CHIL F J667b
Calico Captive. Elizabeth George Speare.
CHIL F S741c
Ceremony of the panther. Luke Wallin.
CHIL F W211ce 1987
Chi-Wee; the adventures of a little Indian girl. Grace Moon.
CHIL F M818c
The chief. Robert Lipsyte.
CHIL F L767ch 1993
Climbing to the sun. Jeffrey Carroll.
CHIL F C3186c
The courage of Sarah Noble. Alice Dalgliesh.
CHIL F D142co
Crazy horse's vision. Joseph Bruchac.
CHIL F B8878cr 2000
Crossing the Starlight Bridge. Alice Mead.
CHIL F M479cr 1994
Crow and Weasel. Barry Lopez.
CHIL F L864cr 1990
Drifting snow : an Arctic search. James Houston.
CHIL F H843dr 1992
The falcon bow : an Arctic legend. James Houston.
CHIL F H843fa 1986
Frozen fire : a tale of courage. James Houston.
CHIL F H843fr 1986
Ghost fox. James Houston.
CHIL F H843g
Ghost paddle; a northwest coast Indian tale. James Houston.
CHIL F H843gp
Happy hunting grounds. Stanley Vestal.
CHIL F V582h
The Indian in the cupboard. Lynne Reid Banks.
CHIL F R3594in 1980
The Indians in winter camp. Therese O. Deming and Thelma Shaw.
CHIL F D381i
Island of the Blue Dolphins. Scott O'Dell.
CHIL F O23i
Jemmy. Jon Hassler.
CHIL F H355j
Jim Dandy. Hadley Irwin.
CHIL F I725ji 1994
The last of the Mohicans : a narrative of 1757. James Fenimore Cooper.
CHIL F C777L
Less than half, more than whole. Kathleen and Michael Lacapa.
CHIL F L1292Le 1994
Little Eagle. Therese O. Deming and Thelma Shaw.
CHIL F D381L
Lone Bull's horse raid. Paul and Dorothy Goble.
CHIL F G575L
Moon dancer. Margaret I. Rostkowski.
CHIL F R839mo 1995
Music from a place called Half Moon. Jerrie Oughton.
CHIL F O93mu 1997
Neekna and Chemai. Jeannette C. Armstrong.
CHIL F A736ne 1991
Only earth and sky last forever. Nathaniel Benchley.
CHIL F B457o
Red Feather : a book of Indian life and tales. Margaret E. Morcomb.
CHIL F M833r
Red Feather's adventures. Jane Curtis Gifford and E. George Payne.
CHIL F G458r
Red Feather's homecoming. E. George Payne, Howard R. Driggs.
CHIL F P346r
Red people of the wooded country. Therese O. Deming and Thelma Shaw.
CHIL F D381r
Return of the osprey. Patricia Mason.
CHIL F M4116re 1999
River runners : a tale of hardship and bravery. James Houston.
CHIL F H843r
Saturnalia. Paul Fleischman.
CHIL F F595sa 1990
S'gana, the black whale. Sue Stauffacher.
CHIL F S798sg 1992
The sign of the beaver. Elizabeth George Speare.
CHIL F S741s
Speak to the rain. Helen K. Passey.
CHIL F P287sp 1989
Spirit wrestler. James Houston.
CHIL F H843s
Streams to the river, river to the sea : a novel of Sacagawea. Scott O'Dell.
CHIL F O23st
Sweetgrass. Jan Hudson.
CHIL F H885sw 1984
To spoil the sun. Joyce Rockwood.
CHIL F R684t 1976
The Tomahawk family. Natalie Savage Carlson.
CHIL F C284to
Water sky. Jean Craighead George.
CHIL F G347wa 1987
The whale people. Roderick Langmere Haig-Brown.
CHIL F H149w
Where the buffaloes begin. Olaf Baker.
CHIL F B169w
The white archer; an Eskimo legend. James Houston.
CHIL F H843w
White Falcon : an Indian boy in early America. Eileen Thompson.
CHIL F T469w
Whiteout. James Houston.
CHIL F H843wh 1991
Winners. Mary-Ellen Lang Collura.
CHIL F C714wi 1992
Wolf run; a Caribou Eskimo tale. James Houston.
CHIL F H843wo
The wolf's tooth. G. Clifton Wisler.
CHIL F W8144wo 1987
The year of the three-legged deer. Eth Clifford.
CHIL F C637ye 1972
Yes is better than no. Byrd Baylor.
CHIL F B358y
Zia. Scott O'Dell.
CHIL F O23z 1978

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Folktales, Picture Books, Poetry & Drama

The Adventures of Nanabush : Ojibway Indian stories. Comp. Emerson Coatsworth and David Coatsworth.
CHIL 398.2 A244 1979
And it is still that way : legends. Arizona Indian children.
CHIL 398.2 A543
The angry moon. William Sleator.
CHIL 398.2 S632a
Annie and the Old One. Miska Miles.
CHIL E M643a
Anpao : an American Indian odyssey. Jamake Highwater.
CHIL 398.2 H638a
Anywhere stories. Leo Sawicki.
CHIL 398.2 .S2697an 1992
The bead pot. Thelma Poirier.
CHIL E P753be 1993
Between earth & sky : legends of Native American sacred places. Joseph Bruchac.
CHIL 398.2 B887be 1996
Beyond the high hills; a book of Eskimo poems. Knud Rasmussen.
CHIL 897.1 R225b
The boy who lived with the bears : and other Iroquois stories. Joseph Bruchac.
CHIL 398.2 B887bo 1995
Cheryl bibalhats = Cheryl's potlatch. Sheila Thompson.
CHIL E T476ch 1991
Cowboy Sam and the Indians. Edna Walker Chandler.
CHIL E C455ci
Coyote : a trickster tale from the American Southwest. Gerald McDermott.
CHIL E M1334co 1994
Coyote and the fire stick : a Pacific Northwest Indian tale> Barbara Diamond Goldin.
CHIL 398.2 G619co 1996
The creation of the sun and the moon. B. Traven.
CHIL 398.2 .T7792c
The dancing stars; an Iroquois legend. Anne Rockwell.
CHIL 398.2 R684d
Dancing with the Indians. Angela Shelf Medearis.
CHIL E M488da 1991
Doctor Coyote : a Native American Aesop's fables. John Bierhorst.
CHIL 398.2 .B588do 1987
The eagle's gift, Alaska Eskimo tales. Knud Rasmussen. Trans. Isobel Hutchinson.
CHIL 398.2 R225e
The eagle's song : a tale from the Pacific Northwest. Kristina Rodanas.
CHIL 398.2 R685ea 1995
Earth always endures : native American poems. Neil Philip.
CHIL 897 E129 1996
Earth Namer; a California Indian myth. Margery Bernstein & Janet Kobrin.
CHIL 398.2 B531e
Echoes of the elders : the stories and paintings of Chief Lelooska. Ed. Christine Normandin.
CHIL 398.2 L543ec 1997
The enchanted caribou. Elizabeth Cleaver.
CHIL E C6237en 1985
Encounter. Jane Yolen.
CHIL E Y54en 1992
The fire bringer; a Paiute Indian legend. Margaret Hodges.
CHIL 398.2 H689f
Fireside book of North American Indian folktales. Allan A. Macfarlan.
CHIL 398.2 M143f
The first strawberries : a Cherokee story. Joseph Bruchac.
CHIL E B8878fi 1993
Four corners of the sky : poems, chants, and oratory. Theodore Clymer.
CHIL 897 F773
Fox song. Joseph Bruchac.
CHIL E B8878fo 1993
Frog girl. Paul Owen Lewis.
CHIL 398.2 L6757fr 1999
Garden. Dyan Sheldon.
CHIL E S544un 1994
The ghost and Lone Warrior : an Arapaho legend. C.J. Taylor.
CHIL E T239gh 1991
The gift of the sacred dog : story and illustrations. Paul Goble.
CHIL E G575g
The girl who loved wild horses. Paul Goble.
CHIL E G575gi
Giving thanks : a Native American good morning message. Chief Jake Swamp.
CHIL 299 S971gi 1995
Glooskap's country : and other Indian tales. Cyrus Macmillan.
CHIL 398.2 M167g
Gluskabe and the four wishes. Joseph Bruchac.
CHIL 398.2 B887gL 1995
The great race of the birds and animals. Paul Goble.
CHIL 398.2 .G575g
Hiawatha. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
CHIL E L853s
How names were given : an Okanagan legend. Barbara Marchand.
CHIL E H847 1991
How Two-Feather was saved from loneliness : an Abenaki legend. C.J. Taylor.
CHIL E T239ho 1990
Iktomi and the boulder : a Plains Indian story. Paul Goble.
CHIL E G575ibo 1988
Iktomi and the buffalo skull : a Plains Indian story. Paul Goble.
CHIL E G575ik 1991
Indian legends of eastern America. Johanna R. M. Lyback.
CHIL 398.2 L981i
Indian legends of the great West. Johanna R. M. Lyback.
CHIL 398.2 .L981in
Iroquois stories : heroes and heroines, monsters and magic. Joseph Bruchac.
CHIL 398.2 .B887i
Is my friend at home? : Pueblo fireside tales. John Bierhorst.
CHIL 398.2 B588is 2001
Knots on a counting rope. Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault.
CHIL E M379kn 1987
The land of Gray Wolf. Thomas Locker.
CHIL E L815La 1991
The legend of the cranberry : a paleo-indian tale. Ellin Greene.
CHIL E G8114Le 1993
Legends of Vancouver. E. Pauline Johnson-Tekahionwake.
CHIL 398.2 J66je 1991
Little Badger and the fire spirit. Maria Campbell.
CHIL E C189L
The little Indian pottery maker. Ann Nolan Clark.
CHIL E C592L
Little Owl Indian. Hetty Burlingame Beatty.
CHIL E B369L
Little Runner of the longhouse. Betty Baker.
CHIL E B167L
The magic of Spider Woman. Lois Duncan.
CHIL 398.2 D9119ma 1996
The monster from the swamp : native legends of monsters, demons and other creatures. C.J. Taylor.
CHIL 398.2 T239mo 1995
Moonsong lullaby. Jamake Highwater.
CHIL E H638m
More tales from the igloo. Agnes Nanogak.
CHIL 398.2 .N186mo 1986
The mud pony : a traditional Skidi Pawnee tale. Caron Lee Cohen.
CHIL E C6772mu 1988
Myths and legends of Alaska. Ed. Katharine Berry Judson.
CHIL 398.2 J93m
Myths and legends of British North America. Ed. Katharine Berry Judson.
CHIL 398.2 J93m2
Myths and legends of the Pacific Northwest, especially of Washington and Oregon. Ed. Katharine Berry Judson.
CHIL 398.2 J93m3 1912
The Naked bear : folktales of the Iroquois. Ed. John Bierhorst.
CHIL 398.2 .N163 1987
The Native stories from Keepers of the earth. Joseph Bruchac and Michael J. Caduto.
CHIL 398.2 B887na 1991b
Nine tales of Raven. Frances Gardiner McEntee Martin.
CHIL 398.2 M379nr
North American legends. Ed. Virginia Haviland.
CHIL 398.2 .N864
On mother's lap. Ann Herbert Scott.
CHIL E S425o
Once more upon a totem. Christie Harris.
CHIL 398.2 H313on
Oregon's journey. Rascal.
CHIL E R2222or 1993
The owl : a Carrier Indian legend. Bernadette Rosetti.
CHIL E R829ow 1991
The path to Snowbird Mountain; Cherokee legends. Traveller Bird (Tsisghwanai).
CHIL 398.2 T779p
Paul Goble gallery : three Native American stories. Paul Goble.
CHIL 398.2 G575pa 1999
People of the short blue corn; tales and legends of the Hopi Indians. Harold Courlander.
CHIL 398.2 C861p
The prince and the Salmon People. Claire Rudolf Murphy.
CHIL E M9775pr 1993
Raven : a trickster tale from the Pacific Northwest. Gerald McDermott.
CHIL E M1334ra 1993
Raven, the trickster : legends of the North American Indians. Gail Robinson.
CHIL 398.2 .R661r 1982
Raven-who-sets-things-right : Indian tales of the Northwest coast. Fran Martin.
CHIL 398.2 M379nr 1975
Red fox and his canoe. Nathaniel Benchley.
CHIL E B457r
The rough-face girl. Rafe Martin.
CHIL E M3825ro 1992
The scared one. Dennis Haseley.
CHIL E H347s
Sedna : an Eskimo myth. Beverly Brodsky.
CHIL E M133s
The serpent's tongue : prose, poetry, and art of the New Mexico pueblos. Ed. Nancy Wood.
CHIL 810.8 S4864 1997
Skunny Wundy; Seneca Indian tales Arthur Caswell Parker.
CHIL 398.2 P238s
Small Wolf. Nathaniel Benchley.
CHIL E B457sm
The snake that lived in the Santa Cruz Mountains & other Ohlone stories. Linda Yamane.
CHIL 398.2 Y196sn 1998
Song of Hiawatha. Selections. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
CHIL E L853s
The Sound of flutes and other Indian legends. Lame Deer, Jenny Leading Cloud, Leonard Crow Dog, et al. Ed. Richard Erdoes.
CHIL 398.2 .S724
Spider spins a story : fourteen legends from Native America. Ed. Jill Max.
CHIL 398.2 S754 1997
Spirit child : a story of the Nativity. Bernardino de Sahagun. Trans. John Bierhorst.
CHIL E S131sp
Spirit of the cedar people : more stories and paintings of Chief Lelooska. Lelooska. Ed. Christine Normandin.
CHIL 398.2 L543sp 1998
Squirrel's song : a Hopi Indian tale. Diane Wolkstein.
CHIL E W862s
Star Boy. Paul Goble.
CHIL E G575s
Star tales : North American Indian stories about the stars. Gretchen Will Mayo.
CHIL 398.2 M473st 1987
Storm boy. Paul Owen Lewis.
CHIL 398.2 L6757st 1995
The story of Jumping Mouse : a native American legend. John Steptoe.
CHIL E S837st 1984
Supper for Crow : a Northwest Coast Indian tale. Pierr Morgan.
CHIL 398.24 M8492su 1995
Tales from silver lands. Charles J. Finger.
CHIL 398.2 F497t
The talking stick : Salish Indian legends. Carol Batdorf.
CHIL 398.2 B328t 1985
The talking stone : an anthology of native American tales and legends. Ed. Dorothy de Wit.
CHIL 398.2 T146
Ten little rabbits. Virginia Grossman.
CHIL E G8788te 1991
Thirteen moons on turtle's back : a Native American year of moons. Joseph Bruchac and Jonathan London.
CHIL 811.5 B887th 1992
Thirty Indian legends of Canada. Margaret Bemister.
CHIL 398.2 B455 1973
Three fools and a horse. Betty Baker.
CHIL E B167t
Thunderbird, and other stories. Henry Chafetz.
CHIL 398.2 C433t
Tlingit stories. Maria Ackerman.
CHIL 398.2 A182t
Tonweya and the eagles, and other Lakota Indian tales. Rosebud Yellow Robe.
CHIL 398.2 .Y43t
The trees stand shining; poetry of the North American Indians. Hettie Jones.
CHIL 897.1 J77t
Tribe : an environmental theatre piece for children. Saphira Barbara Linden.
CHIL 812.5 L744t
The trouble with adventurers. Christie Harris.
CHIL 398.2 H313t
The turquoise horse; prose & poetry of the American Indian. Flora Hood.
CHIL 897 H776t
Under the moon. Dyan Sheldon.
CHIL E S544un 1994
Wanisinwak iskwesisak : awasisasinahikanis = Two little girls lost in the bush : a Cree story for children. Nehiyaw/Glecia Bear. Ed. and trans. Freda Ahenakew & H.C. Wolfart.
CHIL 897 .B368wa 1991
When Coyote walked the earth; Indian tales of the Pacific Northwest. Corinne Running.
CHIL 398.2 R943w
When jaguars ate the moon : and other stories about animals and plants of the Americas. Maria Cristina Brusca and Tona Wilson.
CHIL 398.2 B912wh 1995
When the rain sings : poems by young Native Americans. National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution.
CHIL 811 W5676 1999
Where coyotes howl and wind blows free : growing up in the West. Eds. Alexandra R. Haslam and Gerald W. Haslam.
CHIL 810.8 W5677 1995
Whirlwind is a ghost dancing. Natalia Belting.
CHIL 897.1 B453w

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Traditions - History & Culture

History & Tribal Culture | Arts, Crafts & Music

History & Tribal Culture
Alaska : Indians, Eskimos, Russians, and the rest. Cora Cheney.
CHIL 979.8 C518a
An album of the American Indian. Rosebud Yellow Robe (Lacotawin).
CHIL 970.1 Y43a
The American Indian. Oliver La Farge.
CHIL 970.1 L159a
The American Indian as farmer. Loverne Morris.
CHIL 970.1 M876a
American Indian tribes. Marion E. Gridley.
CHIL 970 G847a
Apache boy.Don Christie, et al. and Arthur L. Wilde.
CHIL 970.3 A639c
The Apache Indians : raiders of the Southwest. Sonia Bleeker.
CHIL 970.3 A639b
Arctic hunter. Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith.
CHIL 979.8 H868ac 1992
Arctic hunters : Indians and Inuit of northern Canada. J.C.H. King.
CHIL 971.9 K53ar 1987
The Beothuk of Newfoundland : a vanished people. Ingeborg Marshall.
CHIL 971.8 M367be 1989
The big book of Indians. Sydney E. Fletcher.
CHIL 970.1 F615b
Buffalo days. Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith.
CHIL 978.6 H868bu 1997
The Cherokee; Indians of the mountains. Sonia Bleeker.
CHIL 970.3 C522bL
Cherokees. Marion Israel.
CHIL 970.3 .C522i
Child of the hogan. Ray Baldwin Louis.
CHIL 970.3 N318L
Children of the midnight sun : young native voices of Alaska. Tricia Brown.
CHIL 979.8 B881ch 1998
The Chippewa Indians, rice gatherers of the Great Lakes. Sonia Bleeker.
CHIL 970.3 C541bL
The Choctaw nation. Allison Lassieur.
CHIL 976 L347ch 2001
Cowboys, Indians, and gunfighters : the story of the cattle kingdom. Albert Marrin.
CHIL 978 M359co 1993
Dancing Cloud : the Navajo boy. Mary Marsh Buff.
CHIL 970.3 N318bu
Delawares. Norma Zane Dobrin.
CHIL 970.3 D343d
The desert people. Ann Nolan Clark.
CHIL 970.3 P213c
The first book of Indians. Benjamin Brewster.
CHIL 970.1 E51f
The first comers; Indians of America's dawn. Marriott, Alice Lee.
CHIL 970.1 M359f
First houses : Native American homes and sacred structures. Jean Guard Monroe and Ray A. Williamson.
CHIL 299 M753fi 1993
From the earth to beyond the sky : Native American medicine. Evelyn Wolfson.
CHIL 610 W861fr 1993
Happily may I walk : American Indians and Alaska natives today. Arlene Hirschfelder.
CHIL 970.1 .H669ha 1986
Hokahey! Edith Dorian.
CHIL 970.1 D696h
Houses of bark : tipi, wigwam and longhouse : native dwellings : woodland Indians> Bonnie Shemie.
CHIL 392.36 .S545hb 1990
Houses of hide and earth : native dwellings : Plains Indians. Bonnie Shemie.
CHIL 392.36 .S545hh 1991
Houses of snow, skin and bones : native dwellings, the far north. Bonnie Shemie.
CHIL 392.36 .S545hs 1989
The how and why wonder book of North American Indians. Felix Sutton.
CHIL 970.1 .S967h
The Indian and his pueblo. Louise Lee Floethe.
CHIL 970.4 F628i
Indian fishing and camping. Robert Hofsinde (Gray-Wolf).
CHIL 970.6 H713i
Indian portraits of the Pacific Northwest, thirty of the principal tribes. George M. Cochran.
CHIL 970.4 C663i
Indian wars and warriors, West. Paul Iselin Wellman.
CHIL 970.1 W452in
Indians at home. Robert Hofsinde.
CHIL 970.1 H713h
Indians in the Rockies. Jon Whyte.
CHIL 971.23 .W629i 1985
Indians of the Pacific Northwest. Karen Liptak.
CHIL 979.5 L767in 1991
The Indian's secret world. Robert Hofsinde (Gray-Wolf).
CHIL 970.1 H713s
Iroquois. Irene Estep.
CHIL 970.3 .I71e
The Kwakiutl Indians. G.S. Prentzas.
CHIL 971.1 P927kw 1993
Lasting echoes : an oral history of Native American people. Joseph Bruchac.
CHIL 973 B887La 1997
Many nations : an alphabet of Native America. Joseph Bruchac.
CHIL 970 B887ma 1997
The mission Indians of California. Sonia Bleeker.
CHIL 970.4 B646m
Morning star, black sun : the Northern Cheyenne Indians and America's energy crisis. Brent Ashabranner.
CHIL 323.1 A819m
Mother Earth, Father Sky : Pueblo Indians of the American Southwest. David Lavender.
CHIL 978.01 L399mo 1998
Mysteries in American archeology. Elsa Marston.
CHIL 970 .M374my 1986
Native American testimony : an anthology of Indian and White relations ; first encounter to dispossession. Ed. Peter Nabokov.
CHIL 323.1 .N278
Navaho land : yesterday and today. Solveig Paulson Russell.
CHIL 970.3 .N318r
Nika Illahee (My homeland). Mary M. Worthylake.
CHIL 970.4 W934n
North American Indian ceremonies. Karen Liptak.
CHIL 299 L766no 1992
The Ojibwa. Helen Hornbeck Tanner.
CHIL 970.004 T166oj 1992
The oldest man in America; an adventure in archaeology. Ruth and Louis Kirk.
CHIL 917.97 K59o
Only the names remain; the Cherokees and the Trail of Tears. Alex W. Bealer.
CHIL 970.3 C522be
Our elders speak : a tribute to native elders. Karie Garnier.
CHIL 971 G236ou 1990
The outlook : Alaska natives and their careers. Bob Koweluk and Richard Appleton.
CHIL 331.7 .K89o
People of the buffalo : how the Plains Indians lived. Maria Campbell.
CHIL 970 .C198pb 1983
People of the dawn. Richard B. Lyttle.
CHIL 970.01 L997p
People of the ice : how the Inuit lived. Heather Smith Siska.
CHIL 971.9 .S622pi 1983
The people shall continue. Simon Ortiz.
CHIL 970.004 .O77pe 1988
Rendezvous. Rick Steber, Don Gray and Jerry Gildemeister.
CHIL 979.5 .S811r
Retreat to the Bear Paw, the story of the Nez Perce. Marion T. Place.
CHIL 970.3 N575p
Sea and cedar : how the Northwest Coast Indians lived. Lois McConkey.
CHIL 971.1 .M129se 1992
The sea hunters, Indians of the Northwest Coast. Sonia Bleeker.
CHIL 970.4 B646s
The Shoshone people. Joanne Mattern.
CHIL 979 M435sh 2001
The Sioux Indians. Sonia Bleeker.
CHIL 970.3 D135b
The Taos Indians and their sacred Blue Lake. Marcia Keegan.
CHIL 970.3 T171k
We have not vanished: Eastern Indians of the United States. Alfred Tamarin.
CHIL 970.4 T153w
What Indian is it! Anna Pistorius.
CHIL 970.1 P679w
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Art, Crafts & Music
American Indian clothes and how to make them. Alex Whitney.
CHIL 646.4 .W617a
American Indian music and musical instruments : with instructions for making the instruments. George S. Fichter.
CHIL 781.72 F445a
The art of the Eskimo. Shirley Glubok.
CHIL 970.6 G567a
The art of the Northwest Coast Indians. Shirley Glubok.
CHIL 709.01 G567a
The book of Indian crafts & Indian lore. Julian Harris Salomon.
CHIL 970.1 .S274b
The caves of the great hunters. Hans Bauman. Trans. Isabel and Florence McHugh.
CHIL 709.01 B347c 1962
Child of the hogan. Ray Baldwin Louis.
CHIL 970.3 N318L
The colonial cookbook. Lucille Recht Penner.
CHIL 641.5 .P413c
A cry from the earth : music of the North American Indians. John Bierhorst.
CHIL 781.72 B588c
Earth maker's lodge : Native American folklore, activities, and foods. Ed. E. Barrie Kavasch.
CHIL 970 E12 1994
The first artists. Dorothy and Joseph Samachson.
CHIL 709.01 S187f
The golden book of Indian crafts and lore. Hunt, W. Ben.
CHIL 970.1 H943g
Indian crafts. Janet and Alex D'Amato.
CHIL 745.5 D155i
Indian games and crafts. Robert Hofsinde (Gray-Wolf).
CHIL 970 H713i
Indian picture writing. Robert Hofsinde (Gray-Wolf).
CHIL 709.01 H713i
North American Indian masks : craft and legend. Frieda Gates.
CHIL 731.75 G259n
Our fathers had powerful songs. Natalia Belting.
CHIL 897.1 B453o
A rainbow at night : the world in words and pictures by Navajo children. Bruce Hucko.
CHIL 973 H882ra 1996
The rattle and the drum : Native American rituals and celebrations. Lisa Sita.
CHIL 299 S623ra 1994
The story of the totem pole. Ruth Brindze.
CHIL 970.6 B858s
They put on masks. Byrd Baylor.
CHIL 970.1 B358t
Totem pole. Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith.
CHIL 730 H869to 1990
War whoops and medicine songs. Charles Hofmann.
CHIL 784.75 H713w

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