Broker, Ignatia. Night Flying Woman: an Ojibway Narrative.
With the art of a practiced storyteller, Ignatia Broker recounts the life
of her great-great-grandmother, Night Flying Woman, who was born in the mid-19th
century and lived during a chaotic time of enormous change, uprootings, and
loss for the Minnesota Ojibway. But this story also tells of her people's
great strength and continuity.
Bruchac, Joseph. Geronimo.
While imprisoned in an Oklahoma jail, the Native American hero Geronimo meets
a young Apache man who tells him of his own struggles for freedom, in a tale
about Geronimo's incredible life and his last memorable days on Earth.
Bruchac, Joseph. Hidden Roots.
Although he is uncertain why his father is so angry and what secret his mother
is keeping from him, eleven-year-old Sonny knows that he is different from
his classmates in their small New York town.
Bruchac, Joseph. Sacajawea: the Story of Bird Woman and the
Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Sacajawea, a Shoshoni Indian interpreter, peacemaker, and guide, and William
Clark alternate in describing their experiences on the Lewis and Clark Expedition
to the Northwest.
Craven, Margaret. I Heard the Owl Call My Name.
A young priest with a short time to live is sent to a parish of Kwakiutl Indians,
where he learns not to fear death.
Erdrich, Louise. The Birchbark House.
Omakayas, a seven-year-old
Ojibwe girl lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on
an island in Lake Superior in 1847 and
learns about her past.
Erdrich, Louise. The Game of Silence.
Nine-year-old Omakayas,
of the Ojibwa tribe, moves west with her family in 1849.
Smith, Cynthia Leitich.
Rain is Not My Indian Name.Tired of staying in seclusion since the death of her best friend, a fourteen-year-old
Native American girl takes on a photographic assignment with her local newspaper
to cover events at the Native American summer youth camp.
Speare, Elizabeth George. Sign of the Beaver.
Left alone to guard the family's wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine,
a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills.