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Documents the forced removal in 1838 of the Cherokee Nation from the southeastern United States to Oklahoma. Shows the suffering endured by the Cherokees as they lost their land and the difficult conditions they endured on the trail. Describes how thousands of Cherokees died during the Trail of Tears, nearly a quarter of the nation, including most of their children and elders.
2) Wild Indian
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Decades after covering up his classmate's murder, Michael has moved on from his reservation and fractured past. When a man seeks vengeance, Michael must go to great lengths to protect his new life with his wife and boss from the demons of his past.
3) The taking of Jemima Boone: colonial settlers, tribal nations, and the kidnap that shaped America
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Explores the little-known true story of the kidnapping of thirteen-year-old Jemima Boone, Daniel Boone's daughter, by a Cherokee-Shawnee raiding party and the ensuing battle with reverberations that nobody could predict.
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Red Fury :The story of Frankie, a lost 10-year-old Indian boy who finds himself thrust into the bigotry of a turn-of-the-century white community. Only one man has the heart and courage to give him a home. Only one woman, the schoolteacher, stands up for him against the entire town. Against a crooked sky: Sam Sutter is the only one left who believes that his sister is still alive after her capture by the Indians and against the wishes of his family...
5) The Doe Boy
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
This coming-of-age films tells the story of Hunter, a half Cherokee with hemophilia (a "white man's disease"), whose teen angst is compounded by his confusing cultural identity. With an overprotective mother and a distant father, Hunter learns from his grandfather the courage to find the love he desperately seeks.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Daniel Boone: A True American Legend In 1775, thirty settlers with their wives and children join an expedition under the courageous leadership of Daniel Boone (George O'Brien) to leave North Carolina and cross the mountains into Kain-tu-kee. The hardships of travel, accidents, and weather are expected. But since a Peace Treaty with the tribes has been signed, they are unaware of the danger they face from a ferocious white renegade named Simon Girty...
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Pocahontas: The story of the relationships between Native Americans and the early English settlers in the Virginia colony, centered on the story of the Indian princess Pocahontas and Captain John Smith. Pocahontas II: The story continues as Pocahontas sets sail for England to try to save her people from extinction
12) Pathfinder
Pub. Date
2007
Description
The heroic story of a young Norse man raised by Native American Indians who wages a personal war against the Vikings that barbarically raided his tribe.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 27
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Brown's meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. This edition includes illustrations, essays, and excerpts from firsthand accounts and memoirs, that add depth and reflection to this momentous work.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Wages of sin: When beautiful college graduate, Sue Walker, inherits a mysterious house in the countryside, she and her friends decide to make it their destination for a weekend getaway. Upon entering the long-abandoned home, they unwittingly release the dark secrets of Sue's forgotten past-- memories that have lain dormant for years due to a childhood trauma she suffered at the age of nine. An evil presence of a twisted preacher still lingers there--...
Pub. Date
2007.
Description
Begins powerfully with the Sioux triumph over General Custer at Little Big Horn and goes on to center around three powerful men. Charles Eastman is a young, Dartmouth-educated Sioux doctor. Sitting Bull is the proud Lakota chief who refuses to submit to U.S. government policies designed to strip his people of their identity, dignity and sacred land. Senator Henry Dawes is one of the men responsible for the government policy on Indian affairs. While...
19) Wind River
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
An FBI agent teams with a town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.
20) The new world
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Set admidst the first encounter of European and Native American cultures during the founding of the Jamestown Virginia settlement in 1607. Tells the classic tale of Pocahontas and her relationships with adventurer John Smith and aristocrat John Rolfe. This woman's journey of love lost and found again takes her from the untouched beauty of the Virginia wilderness to the upper crust of English society as we witness the dawn of a new America.
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