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American Indian Stories
Herman Viola (General Editor)
Recommended for grades 3-5.
“Biographies of well-known and less well-known leaders in the Indian world.”
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American Indian Tribes
Marion E. Gridley. New York : Dodd, Mead & Co., 1974
Recommended for grades 5-9.
“Gridley has divided the tribes into 12 categories and has only listed tribes considered to be distinct. Each tribe is discussed in terms of its past and current condition. Numerous photographs can be found.”
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 Atariba & Niguayona
Consuelo Mendez. San Francisco : Children's Book Press, 1988
Recommended for grades 1-3.
“One of this publisher's bilingual Fifth World Tales, this is a retelling of a Taino Indian tale from Puerto Rico. All titles in this series are highly recommended.”
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 Dancing Teepees : Poems of American Indian Youth
Selected by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve. New York : Holiday House, 1989
Recommended for all ages.
“A very easy-to-read and understandable book which introduces the major Native American regional groups: plains, woodlands, Inuit, northwest and southwest.”
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The First Americans : Tribes of North America
Jane Werner Watson. New York : Pantheon, 1980
Recommended for grades K-3.
“A thoughtful and sensitive collection of poems from the oral traditions of Native Americans and contemporary tribal poets.”
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Happily May I Walk : American Indians and Alaska Natives Today
Arlene B. Hirschfelder. New York : Scribner's, 1986
Recommended for grades 5+.
“Excellent summary of Native American life and activities today. Very useful for adults, too, and as a reference tool.”
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 Houses of Bark
Bonnie Shemie. Montreal : Tundra Books, 1990
Recommended for grades 3-5.
“Well-illustrated survey of traditional house types of the northeast…”
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 Iktomi and the Ducks
Paul Goble. New York : Orchard Books, 1990
Recommended for all ages.
“All of Paul Goble's books are highly recommended, especially the Iktomi stories, which perfectly convey the lessons and spirit of trickster stories.”
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 Indian Chiefs
Russell Freedman. New York : Holiday House, 1987
Recommended for grades 5+.
“Freedman has accomplished a well-balanced collective biography of six western Indian chiefs: Red Cloud (Oglala Sioux), Satanta (Kiowa), Quannah Parker (Comanche), Washakie (Shoshone), Joseph (Nez Perce), and Sitting Bull (Hunkpapa Sioux).”
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Indian Summer
Barbara Girion. New York : Scholastic, 1990
Recommended for grades 5-8.
“An excellent novel of the cultural adjustments Joni must make when she finds herself living on a modern "Woodlands" (i.e. Iroquois) reservation with her family in upstate New York one summer.”
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 Keepers of the Earth : Native American Stories and Environmental Activities for Children
Michael J. Caduto and Joseph Bruchac. Golden: CO:
Fulcrum, 1988
Recommended for all ages.
“Superbly written and illustrated presentation of Native American philosophies about the environment. Joseph Bruchac has compiled a number of collections of myths and legends of the Abenaki and Iroquois peoples, all of them excellent.”
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The Last Buffalo : Cultural Views of the Plains Indians : The Sioux or Dakota Nation
W.E. Rosenfelt. Minneapolis:
T.S. Denison & Co., 1973
Recommended for grades 4-6.
“Highly recommended.”
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 North American Indian Medicine People
North American Indian Survival Skills
North American Indian Sign Language
All by Karen Liptak. New York : Franklin Watts, 1990
Recommended for grades 4-7.
“These surveys of cultural traits are representative, providing a balanced look at these areas of Native American knowledge.”
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 The People Shall Continue
Simon Ortiz. San Francisco : Children's Book Press, 1988
Recommended for grades 3-6.
“The best treatment available for young children in this succinct recounting of the interactions between the Native and non- native peoples of North America from Columbus to the present day.
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 Pueblo Storyteller
Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith. New York : Holiday House, 1991
Recommended for grades 3-6.
“10-year old April of Cochiti Pueblo takes the reader on a photographic visit through the pueblo, introducing him to her family, traditional methods of bread-baking, pottery-making and drum-making. She participates in a Buffalo Dance and tells the reader her favorite creation story.” |
The Rain Dance People : The Pueblo Indians, Their Past and Present
Richard Erdoes. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1976
Recommended for grades 6+.
“Erdoes traces the history of the Pueblo Indians from prehistoric times to the mid-1970's and provides information abouth their unique lifestyle and how they have struggled to maintain it…An extraordinary work. Highly recommended.” |
The Shadow Brothers
A.E. Cannon. New York :
Delacorte Press, 1990
Recommended for grades 6-10.
“A well-done novel of a Navajo teen as told by his adoptive (non-Indian) brother. Henry Yazzie has been sent to live with his father's white friend's family so that he can attend good schools. An excellent student and athlete, the arrival of a second Native boy to the school has Henry questioning his identity as a Navajo.”
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 Sweetgrass
Jan Hudson. New York : Philomel, 1989
Recommended for grades 5- 8.
“A superb first book about a Blackfoot girl in the days just before heavy interaction with settlers.”
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 The Tlingit
Alice Osinski. Chicago :
Children's Press, 1990
Recommended for grades 1-3.
“An entry in the New True series on American Indian tribes. Like the other titles in this series, these are superb introductions to the histories and cultures of the different peoples they treat.”
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The Story of Squanto, First Friend to the Pilgrims
Cathy East Dubowski. New York:
Dell Yearling, 1990
Recommended for grades 4-8.
“Of the many books for children on Squanto and the Pilgrims, we finally get a historically accurate biography of the Wampanoag survivor of the village of Patuxet who was so critical in the survival of this early group of colonials…A very well- balanced, realistic and entertaining biography.” |
A Woman of Her Tribe
Margaret A. Robinson. New York : Scribner's, 1990
Recommended for grades 5-8.
Low-key story of Annette, whose white mother moves the two of them from Annette's deceased father's Nootka village to attend a private school in Vancouver where she's received a scholarship. The last third of the novel deals with Annette's return to her village over the Christmas break, where she realistically confronts her confusion over being both Nootka and white, and makes decisions about where she belongs.”
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