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5) The traveler
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As the Storyteller journeys through the lands of the People, accompanied by his adopted daughter, Pale Star, he witnesses the dramatic changes that the white settlers have brought to the lives and fates of the Indians.
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An old Indian woman rescues a child with smallpox in one of the epidemics which decimated the Indians in the 18th Century. The child is the only survivor of another tribe and Running Deer's people warn her not to touch the girl. But Running Deer has no reason for living. Since her husband died she has been planning suicide. The child recovers and Running Deer finds a new reason to live--until the girl decides she wants to be reunited with her own...
8) South wind
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A historical novel on a pre-Civil War conflict between proponents and opponents of slavery, known as Bloody Kansas. The story is told through the eyes of Jed Sterling a college-educated trapper who marries a black woman.
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"Misunderstood by her peers and unloved by her stepmother, the young Cherokee, Corn Flower, finds acceptance with Snakewater, the medicine woman of Old Town. Soon, Corn Flower moves into Snakewater's isolated house and begins learning the art of healing - what ceremonies to perform, which plants to harvest, how to preserve them. When Snakewater dies, Corn Flower inherits the role and the power of the medicine woman as well as her name, Snakewater.".
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13) Runestone
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In 11th Century North America, a Norse ship is attacked by Indians in the St. Lawrence River. The captain and the steersman escape to find refuge in a village of friendly Indians. The novel follows the Norsemen's adaptation to Indian life and the heart-wrenching parting when the time comes to go home.
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From birth he'd been called Speajs-not. Deaf and mute he lives in a world of silence apart from his people, who later rename him Hunts-Alone for his unsual but successful approach to securing sustenance from the wild game that roams the land. Stronger than his handicap, he finds love, establishes his own lodge, and begins a family of his own-all of which is shattered forever the day the forest people attack his encampment.