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Eagle song: an Indian saga based on true events
Par James Houston. 1983
In 1803, a trading ship was captured by an Indian band on the pacific coast. This story is based on…
those events, Houston tells the story from the Indians' point of view. Junior High. 1983.Eagle song (Puffin chapters)
Par Joseph Bruchac. 1997
Dark passage: a Barnaby Skye novel (Skye's West. #Vol. 10)
Par Richard S Wheeler. 1998
Mountaineer trapper Barnaby Skye and his Crow wife, Victoria (Many Quill Woman), have problems in their four-year-old marriage. When they…
move back with her people, Skye is put at a disadvantage as she begins to compare him with Crow warriors, especially the intrepid Antelope. 1998. (Skye's West)Dawn rider
Par Jan Hudson. 1990
When a horse is captured from the Snakes and brought to the Blackfoot tribe, Kit Fox knows that she is…
meant to ride it. The horse is sent to a camp where women are not allowed, but when an attack sends the men into battle, Kit Fox is left to master the beast. For junior and senior high readers. 1990.Aurora crossing (Lone Star audio)
Par Karl H Schlesier. 2009
Idaho, 1877. Eighteen-year-old John Seton, whose father was white, lives among his late mother’s people, the Nez Perce's. When non…
treaty bands are pressured by the U.S. government to move onto a reservation, they flee north. On the journey, Seton struggles to safeguard the horses, elude soldiers - and survive. 2009.Ceremony (Recorded Books classics library)
Par Leslie Marmon Silko. 2008
Tormented by shell shock and haunted by memories of his cousin who died in the war, Tayo, a mixed-blood Laguna…
Pueblo and veteran of World War II, struggles on his impoverished reservation. After turning to alcohol to ease his pain, he strives for a better understanding of who he is. 2008.Canaan: A Novel (Southern voices audio)
Par Donald McCaig. 2008
Black, white, and Native Americans rebuild their lives after the Civil War. Confederate major Duncan Gatewood battles Yankee carpetbaggers on…
his Virginia plantation. Ex-slave and former soldier Edward Ratcliff and his Santee wife find acceptance among the Lakota people. 2008.Blood meridian: or the evening redness in the West
Par Cormac McCarthy. 2007
1850s. A teenager known only as the Kid runs away from his alcoholic father in Tennessee. The Kid journeys west…
to the Texas-Mexico borderlands, where he encounters a ruthless paramilitary gang sent by the government to scalp Indians. 2007.Code talker: a novel about the Navajo Marines of World War Two
Par Joseph Bruchac. 2006
After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other…
Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue. Junior High. 2006.Beardance
Par Will Hobbs. 1996
While accompanying an elderly rancher on a trip into the San Juan Mountains, Cloyd, a Ute Indian boy, tries to…
help two orphaned grizzly cubs survive the winter and, at the same time, completes his spirit mission. Sequel to "Bearstone." Junior High. 1996.Blackflies (Robert Munsch Ser.)
Par Robert N Munsch, Jay Odjick. 2017
One day Helen wakes up and it's SPRING! The snow has melted and the sun is shining. But Helen knows…
that the blackflies will be coming out soon. So she does what any smart kid would do: she sends her little sister outdoors to check! When the blackflies and mosquitoes carry her away, Helen tells her dad, who rushes outside and is carried away himself. Now Helen needs to rescue BOTH of them, along with a wolf and a very clever bear. Grades K-3. 2017.Crescent Moon
Par Alden R Carter. 1999
Living in the logging area of northern Wisconsin during the early 1900s, thirteen-year-old Jeremy helps his uncle carve a statue…
of a Chippewa maiden as a tribute to the vanishing culture of her people. Grades 5-8. c1999.Cry to the night wind (Viking Kestrel Novels Ser.)
Par Thomas H Smith. 1986
Set in the 1790's. When Davey travels with his father on a surveying expedition along the west coast of North…
America, he befriends a seal pup. After he is captured by Indians, he is declared to be a "spirit child" because he can "talk" to the pup. For junior and senior high readers. 1986.Dakota dream
Par James W Bennett. 1994
Floyd Rayfield, fifteen, who has lived in foster homes most of his life, believes his destiny is to become a…
Dakota warrior. No longer able to tolerate his situation, he heads for the Pine Ridge reservation to undergo a vision quest and find a place he really belongs. Some strong language. For junior high readers. 1994.Buy the chief a Cadillac
Par Rick Steber. 2004
Pokey Pitsua is dismayed that the Klamath nation is accepting the U.S. government's paltry cash settlement for their million-acre timber-rich…
reservation. And sure enough, the chief buys a Cadillac with his share of the money. Some descriptions of violence, strong language. Spur Award. 2005.Brothers in arms: three novellas
Par Jordan Wheeler. 1989
A collection of three novellas that deal with the struggles of brotherhood and of the Métis. "Exposure" describes the sexual…
abuse sustained by children at mandatory, Catholic-run boarding schools, "Red Waves" is a story of Native brothers who find themselves on different sides of the law, and "Hearse in Snow" highlights how alcohol has torn families apart. For senior high and older readers. Strong language, descriptions of violence and some descriptions of sex. c1989.Bone dance
Par Martha Brooks. 1997
When her father wills her a cabin on land in rural Manitoba, Alexandra meets a young man who shares her…
Indian heritage and her experience of being haunted by spirits. Grades 5-8. 1997.Bloody Bones Canyon (Cheyenne ; #19)
Par Judd Cole. 1999
Touch the Sky had vowed to protect his tribe, and only he could defend them from the warriors that threatened…
to take over the camp. But when his people needed him most, the mighty shaman was forced by Cheyenne law to leave them to avenge a crime that defied belief - the slaughter of their beloved peace chief, Gray Thunder. 1999. (Cheyenne ; 19)Buffalo hiders (Cheyenne Series ; #10)
Par Judd Cole. 1994
Set on the perilous frontier before the Civil War, Cheyenne is the exciting adventure series featuring young Touch the Sky,…
as he fights to find his own place within his Indian heritage and the white world in which he was raised. Here, he struggles to stop the white hunters from wiping out the buffalo. 1994. (Cheyenne Series ; 10)Consumption
Par Kevin Patterson. 2006
An Inuit girl spends her teen years in the 1960s in a Montreal TB sanatorium, learning French and mathematics from…
nuns. Upon returning to Hudson Bay, Victoria feels like a stranger, and soon marries a white man. When her husband accepts work from a South African mining company that wants to dig for diamonds in the frozen tundra, things come to a boiling point. 2006.