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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Lies My Teacher Told Me	James W. Loewen,Rebecca Stefoff	Since its first publication in 1995, Lies My Teacher Told Me has gone on to win an American Book Award, the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship, and to sell over half …	OL106813W
Julie	Jean Craighead George,Wendell Minor	When Julie returns to her father's Eskimo village, she struggles to find a way to save her beloved wolves in a changing Arctic world and she falls in love with a young Siberian man.	OL111831W
American Indian stories, legends, and other writings	Zitkala-Sa	Short stories, essays, speeches and other writings by the American Indian author Zitkala-Sa.	OL12051637W
Code talker	Derrick Henry,Joseph Bruchac	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 Wo…	OL121184W
Why the possum's tail is bare, and other North American Indian nature tales	Connolly, James E.	Thirteen tales collected from eight Indian tribes of eastern and western North America, featuring animals and nature lore.	OL122001W
Stories of the Road	Marie Sansone	Stories of the Road takes the reader along on a good-humored American road trip, interwoven with Native American lore, pioneer history, and environmental tales. When the main characters, Tom Ste…	OL13761181W
Run away home	Patricia McKissack	In 1886 in Alabama, an eleven-year-old African American girl and her family befriend and give refuge to a runaway Apache boy.	OL14860571W
Worlds apart	Kathleen Karr	In 1670, soon after arriving in the Carolinas with a group of colonists from England, fifteen-year-old Christopher West befriends a young Sewee Indian, Asha-po, and learns some hard lessons about sur…	OL14912281W
People of the Owl (North America's Forgotten Past, Book Eleven)	W. Michael Gear,Kathleen O'Neal Gear	Four thousand years ago, in what centuries later will be the southern part of the United States, a boy is thrust into manhood long before he's ready. Young Salamander would much rather catch crickets…	OL14961534W
The frog princess	Eric A. Kimmel	After rejecting all of her human suitors, the beautiful daughter of a Tlingit tribal leader declares that she would rather marry a frog from the lake.	OL15044850W
Whisper in the dark	Joseph Bruchac,Sally Wern Comport	Every monster can be overcome if you know the right way to go about it.Maddy has always loved scary stories, especially the spooky legends of her Native American ancestors. But that was before she he…	OL15069304W
Collected Plays 1944-1961 (All My Sons / Crucible / Death of a Salesman / Enemy of the People / Man…	Arthur Miller	Contains: All My Sons [Crucible](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL66347W/The_Crucible) [Death of a Salesman](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL66346W/Death_of_a_Salesman) Enemy of the People Man …	OL15111386W
Blood and Thunder	Hampton Sides	Examines America's westward expansion, describing the forcible subjugation of Native American tribes, including the fierce battles against the Navajo which ended with a brutal siege at Canyon de Chel…	OL15134514W
New Orleans	John T. Edge,Tom Downs	Come and be swept away by the sultry heat, heady nightlife, spicy food, soulful music, lacy balconies, Southern hospitality and mysterious past of New Orleans. No matter what your poison (or potion),…	OL15147672W
Mission San Francisco de Asís	Kathleen J. Edgar	Discusses the Mission of San Francisco de Asís from its founding in 1776 to the present day, including the reasons for Spanish colonization in California and the effects of colonization on the Ohlon…	OL152230W
The crossing	Donna Jo Napoli	In 1805, Sacagawea, a woman of the Shoshoni tribe, helps Meriwether Lewis and William Clark find a passage to the West Coast, in this story told through the eyes of the baby boy on Sacagawea's back.	OL16211068W
The Ugly One	Leanne Statland Ellis	"At the height of the Incan empire, a girl called the Ugly One because of a disfiguring scar on her face, seeks to have the scar removed and instead finds a life path as a shaman"	OL16671761W
Walking two worlds	Joseph Bruchac	Presents a biography of Ely Parker, a Seneca man who overcame racism and deceit to obtain a Euroamerican education while remaining true to his culture and people.	OL17295056W
Before the Great Spirit	Julian Rice	In Before the Great Spirit Julian Rice explores the spiritual values that informed Sioux attitudes surrounding warriors, tricksters, spirits, games, and conflict. Countering the widespread myths that…	OL17626940W
I Am Regina	Sally M. Keehn	In 1755, as the French and Indian War begins, ten-year-old Regina is kidnapped by Indians in western Pennsylvania, and she must struggle to hold onto memories of her earlier life as she grows up unde…	OL1865131W