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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A simple biography of Lakota-Oglala medicine man Black Elk, from his childhood vision which shaped his life through his battles with the whites and his travels with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show.
4) Pocahontas
Author
Series
Publisher
Chelsea Juniors
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
79 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
6) Crazy Horse
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Details the life and death of the great Sioux warrior and reluctant leader of the Battle of the Little Bighorn.
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
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Description
"The true story of John Meyers and Charles Bender, who in 1911 became the first two Native American pro baseball players to face off in a World Series, teaches important lessons about resilience, doing what you love in the face of injustice, and the fight for Native American representation in sports"--
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
28 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
A collection of short, illustrated biographies of sixteen influential Native Americans, from Tisquantum, who helped the Pilgrims survive the winter of 1622, to Sherman Alexie, a contemporary poet, novelist, and screenwriter.
Author
Publisher
Crabtree Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
NC 1060L
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
Profiles Native Americans who had significant impact on the histories of their own nations, and in the history of the United States and Canada, through their roles as interpreters, guides, warriors, and peacemakers.
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
[1983]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
910L
Physical Desc
96 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
15) Tecumseh
Author
Series
Publisher
Childrens Press
Pub. Date
[1992]
Physical Desc
31 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the Shawnee warrior, orator, and leader who united a confederacy of Indians in an effort to save Indian land from the advance of white soldiers and settlers.
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2021].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
143 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An accessible and educational illustrated book profiling 50 notable American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian people, from NBA star Kyrie Irving of the Standing Rock Lakota to Wilma Mankiller, the first female principal chief of the Cherokee Nation"--
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[1996]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
1100L
Physical Desc
x, 166 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
A biography of the Oglala leader who relentlessly resisted the white man's attempt to take over Indian lands.
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
103 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the life of Pocahontas and her role as peacemaker between the Powhatan tribes and the settlers of Jamestown.
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
A biography of Native American athlete Jim Thorpe, focusing on how his boyhood education set the stage for his athletic achievements which gained him international fame and Olympic gold medals. Author's note details Thorpe's life after college.
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