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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 27
Lexile measure
1160L
Language
English
Description
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, fully documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. A national bestseller in hardcover for more than a year after its initial publication, it has sold almost four million copies and has been translated into seventeen languages. For this elegant thirtieth anniversary hardcover edition, Brown has contributed an incisive...
Author
Lexile measure
1210L
Language
English
Description
Mann shows how a new generation of researchers equipped with novel scientific techniques have come to previously unheard-of conclusions about the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans: In 1491 there were probably more people living in the Americas than in Europe. Certain cities--such as Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital--were greater in population than any European city. Tenochtitlan, unlike any capital in Europe at that time, had running water,...
Author
Series
Eyewitness books volume 60
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1150L
Language
English
Description
A guide to the fascinating civilizations of North American Indians with full-color photographs.
8) The Kiva
Publisher
Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society, Arizona State Museum
Pub. Date
1935
Language
English
Author
Series
Bison book volume 119
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
Text, maps and illustrations focus primarily on Indians of North America from prehistory to the present. Organized according to the following seven categories: Ancient Indians. - Ancient civilizations. - Indian lifeways. - Indians and explorers. - Indian wars. - Indian land cessions. - Contemporary Indians.
15) Zia
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
A young Indian girl, Zia, caught between the traditional world of her mother and the present world of the Mission, is helped by her aunt Karana whose story was told in the Island of the Blue Dolphins.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents the history of the Native American religions, starting from their roots as tribal religions, and then details the detrimental effects of European colonization, the annihilation of the Native Americans that threatened the religions, and their restoration in the 20th 20th century
20) When clay sings
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 780L
Language
English
Description
The daily life and customs of prehistoric southwest Indian tribes are retraced from the designs on the remains of their pottery.
