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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Catawba Valley Mississippian	David G. Moore	"By the 18th century, the modern Catawba Indians were living along the river and throughout the valley that bears their name near the present North Carolina/South Carolina border, but little was know…	OL12032151W
The Timucua Indians	Kelley G. Weitzel	Discusses the history, language, customs, and daily life of the Timucua Indians who lived in northern Florida and southern Georgia. Includes activities to reinforce information presented.	OL14867672W
Walking the trail	Jerry Ellis	"One fall morning Jerry Ellis donned a backpack and began a long, lonely walk: retracing the Cherokee Trail of Tears, the nine hundred miles his ancestors had walked in 1838. The trail was the agoniz…	OL15845810W
The Seminole	Mary Englar	Provides an overview of the past and present lives of the Seminole people of Florida and Oklahoma, covering their customs and beliefs, government, and more.	OL16030810W
A Seminole legend	Betty Mae Jumper	"With A Seminole Legend, Betty Mae Jumper joins the ranks of Native American Women who are coming forward to tell their life experiences. This collaboration between Jumper and Patsy West, an ethnohis…	OL16515861W
Osceola and the great Seminole war	Thom Hatch	"When he died in 1838, Seminole warrior Osceola was the most famous Native American in the world. Born a Creek, Osceola was driven from his home to Florida by General Andrew Jackson where he joined t…	OL16607048W
The life and times of Mary Musgrove	Steven C. Hahn	The story of Mary Musgrove (1700-1764), a Creek Indian-English woman struggling for success in colonial society, is an improbable one. As a literate Christian, entrepreneur, and wife of an Anglican c…	OL16664435W
Slavery in the Cherokee Nation	Patrick Neal Minges	This work explores the dynamic issues of race and religion within the Cherokee Nation and to look at the role of secret societies in shaping these forces during the nineteenth century.	OL16952142W
Florida Indians and the Invasion from Europe	Jerald T. Milanich	"Based on the best modern historical research on the Timucua and other Florida indigenous groups, work relates their decline and extinction"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.	OL1971252W
The story of the Cherokee people	Underwood.	A collection of Cherokee folktales as well as a personal account of their forced removal along the Trail of Tears to new lands.	OL19797794W
The Choctaw	Raymond Bial	Discusses the history, culture, social structure, beliefs, and notable people of the Choctaw. This book discusses the history, culture, social structure, beliefs, and notable people of the Choctaw.	OL19922667W
Creek Indian Medicine Ways	David,Jr. Lewis,Ann T. Jordan	"Called the Mvskoke in their language, the Creek Indians of Oklahoma continue to practice traditional medicine. In Creek Indian Medicine Ways, David Lewis, a full-blood Mvskoke and practicing medicin…	OL21224591W
Pine and the winter sparrow	Alexis York Lumbard	"Have you ever wondered why pine trees stay green all winter long and don't lose their leaves like other trees? According to an ancient legend attributed to the Cherokee Indians, it was a simple act …	OL23202341W
Myths of the Cherokee	James Mooney	Thirteen stories from the campfire lore of the Cherokee which the Indians say originated in the age when man and animal spoke the same language. Includes a brief history of the Cherokee in America.	OL2931697W
Our Land Before We Die	Jeff Guinn	In Our Land Before We Die, Jeff Guinn traces the little-known history of the runaway slaves who fled to the Florida Everglades to live alongside the Seminole Indians. Deeply rooted in tribal oral his…	OL3253813W
Another country	Christopher Camuto	xiv, 351 p. ; 25 cm	OL36497W
Sequoyah's gift	Janet Klausner	A biography of the Cherokee Indian who created a method for his people to write and read their own language.	OL4297288W
The Indian Slave Trade	Alan Gallay	"This book is the first ever to focus on the traffic in Indian slaves during the early years of the American South. The Indian slave trade was of central importance from the Carolina coast to the Mis…	OL4648917W
The southern Indians and Benjamin Hawkins, 1796-1816	Florette Henri	Benjamin Hawkins was agent to the Indians south of the Ohio. The tribes that he dealt with included the Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek, Lower Creek (Mikasuki), Seminole and Choctaw.	OL5114153W
Âh-âyîtaw isi ê-kî-kiskêyihtahkik maskihkiy =	Alice Ahenakew,John Christoph Cooper	"Born in 1912, Mrs. Alice Ahenakew grew up in a traditional Cree community in north-central Saskatchewan. As a young woman, she married Andrew Ahenakew, a member of the prominent Saskatchewan family,…	OL6009235W