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Civilization of the American Indian volume 65
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[1963]
Language
English
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English
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Quah, Oklahoma. In the fifteen years since their teenage son, Ray-Ray, was killed in a police shooting, the Echota family has been suspended in private grief. The mother, Maria, increasingly struggles to manage the onset of Alzheimer's in her husband, Ernest. Their adult daughter, Sonja, leads a life of solitude, punctuated only by spells of dizzying romantic obsession. And their son, Edgar, fled home long ago, turning to drugs to mute his feelings...
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Place to call home (Al Lacy) volume 1
Language
English
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An eighteen-year-old mixed race Cherokee Indian and a lieutenant thrown together in the face of brutality on the Trail of Tears find themselves falling in love with each other
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Haunting illustrations are woven throughout these horror stories that follow one extended Cherokee family across the centuries and well into the future as they encounter predators of all kinds in each time period
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Spirit of Appalachia volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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A half Cherokee man finds himself caught in the middle of the region's growing hostilities with the Cherokee, until he is befriended by a young woman who helps him discover where he belongs
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Otsaliheliga is a Cherokee word that is used to express gratitude. Journey through the year with a Cherokee family and their tribal nation as they express thanks for celebrations big and small. A look at modern Native American life as told by a citizen of the Cherokee Nation.
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English
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"Since her mother's death, Kit Crockett has lived alone with her grief-stricken father, spending lonely days far out in the country tending the garden, fishing in a local stream, and reading Nancy Drew mysteries from the library bookmobile. One day when Kit discovers a mysterious and beautiful woman has moved in just down the road, she is intrigued. Kit and her new neighbor Bella become fast friends. Both outsiders, they take comfort in each other's...
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Jane Yellowrock novels volume 3
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English
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Jane, a shapeshifting vampire-hunter-for-hire, crosses paths with a stranger who has arrived in New Orleans, enlisted to hunt vampires who have gone insane-or so he says...
13) The Cherokee
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English
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"Engaging images accompany information about the Cherokee people. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--
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Jane Yellowrock novels volume 1
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English
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"Jane Yellowrock is the last of her kind--a skinwalker of Cherokee descent who can turn into any creature she desires--and hunts the undead for a living. But now she's been hired by Katherine Fonteneau, one of the oldest vampires in New Orleans and the madam of Katie's Ladies, to hunt a powerful rogue vampire who's killing other vamps. Amidst a bordello full of real 'ladies of the night,' and a hot Cajun biker with a panther tattoo who stirs her carnal...
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English
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The fierce battle over identity and patriotism within Cherokee culture that took place in the years surrounding the Trail of Tears
Though the tragedy of the Trail of Tears is widely recognized today, the pervasive effects of the tribe's uprooting have never been examined in detail. Despite the Cherokees' efforts to assimilate with the dominant white culture-running their own newspaper, ratifying a constitution based on that of the United States-they...
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