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"Evoking the spirit and danger of the early American West, this is the story of the Battle of Beecher Island, pitting an outnumbered United States Army patrol against six hundred Native warriors, where heroism on both sides of the conflict captures the vital themes at play on the American frontier." --
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John Simpson Smith (1810-1871) counted among his acquaintances Indianchiefs and United States presidents. He was a fur trapper, a trader for Charles Bent, and a recognized spokesman for the Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians, with whom he lived much of his life. He served as interpreter for major treaty negotiations and accompanied three delegations of chiefs to Washington, D.C. to visit Presidents Fillmore, Lincoln, and Grant. He was in Black Kettle's...
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"Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer was victorious in only one engagement against the American Indians: the Battle of the Washita. Eight years before the Little Bighorn, Custer marched his men through heavy snows to attack a village of Cheyenne Indians under Chief Black Kettle, the most peaceful of the Cheyenne leaders. The Indians did not consider themselves to be at war and were taken by surprise by the dawn attack. Over one hundred men,...
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"The Legend of Little Dried River" is the story of Preacher Nehemiah Bleek, a giant bear of a man who is the founder of the Horse Creek Mission School to shelter Indian children orphaned by the Indian Wars raging in Colorado Territory. In 1864 the great Cheyenne warrior Roman Nose brings his nephew, Red Dust, to Preacher Bleek for safe-keeping. "Frontier Fury" is set in the Pacific Northwest in 1858. Kamiak, a murderous Palouse chieftain, is vying...
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"In 1874, the U.S. Army sent troops to subdue and move the Native Americans of the southern plains to Indian reservations, and this chronicles the brief and brutal war that followed. Told from the viewpoint of two youths from opposite sides of the fight, this is a tale of conflict and unlikely friendship in the Wild West"--
167) The Canyon
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Deep in Cheyenne territory, a war hungry group of Indians meet and plan to attack a rival tribe. One young Cheyenne, Little Bear, refuses to fight. He has earned admiration for his courage and skill in hunting, but now, as a rite of passage into adulthood, he must spend two weeks alone in the wilds, eating only what nature provides. Is Little Bear tough enough to survive?
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"What should a man do when the army sends him to help kill his wife's family? Bill Rowland married into the Northern Cheyenne Tribe in 1850, eventually becoming the primary interpreter in their negotiations with the U.S. government. On November 25,1876, five months to the day after Custer died at the Little Bighorn, Bill found himself riding into the tribe's main winter camp with over a thousand U.S. troops bent on destroying it. The Cheyenne Sweet...
169) Cheyenne Lance
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"Zack Dobson left St. Louis as a camp helper with a trapping brigade. The boy soon became a trapper- and a man- in the harsh, unforgiving Rocky Mountains. But he became a legend when he sought vengeance against the Comanches who raided the Cheyenne village that had adopted him."--
173) The Cheyenne
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Explores the history and culture of the Cheyenne Indians, as well as their way of life today.
175) The sand creek fight
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Includes the Hungate Massacre, the Sand Creek fight, and the Indians side of the story.
176) Native American stories for kids: 12 traditional stories from Indigenous tribes across North America
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"Native Americans have a long tradition of storytelling. Now, you can easily introduce your children to these rich cultures with a compilation of powerful tales from multiple tribes like the Cheyenne and the Lenape. What sets this book apart from other Native American books for kids: Tales from 12 tribes--Kids will embark on a literary adventure with 12 stories from tribes around America, exploring lore about how the mountain Denali formed, why the...
177) One thousand white women (Colorado State Library Book Club Collection): the journals of May Dodd
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CSL - Identity, Social Justice, and EDI
CSL - Indigenous Peoples/Native American/American Indian Literature
CSL - Indigenous Peoples/Native American/American Indian Literature
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Based on actual historical events, this novel follows the indomitable May Dodd as she travels to the Cheyenne, becomes the bride of Little Wolf, chief of that tribe, and struggles with living in and being loyal to two different worlds.