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Billy Buckhorn, the sixteen year old grandson of a Cherokee medicine man, begins having strange experiences that lead to unexpected psychic powers.
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|  | | From Warriors to Soldiers
A history of American Indian service in the U.S. military from the Revolutionary War to modern times.
Part 1: Native Warriors: Myth vs. Reality - This section examines and reveals the true nature of the American Indian warrior and dispells the myths about "bloodthirsty" savages.br />
Part 2: From Freedom Fighters to Rough Riders (U.S. military conflicts from the Revolutionary War to the Spanish American War)br />
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Part 3: Doughboys and Leathernecks (World War I to Iraq and Afghanistan)
Part 4: Enemies and Allies - The Paradox of Native American Service
Appendix I: Profiles in Service (The service record of several prominent indiv |
|  | | Lands of our Ancestors Book One
A 12-year-old Chumash Indian boy and his family experience what it might have really been like within the California Spanish mission system.
Book One of the Lands of our Ancestors series for juvenile readers tells the story of a twleve-year-old Chumash boy named Kilik and his eleven-year-old cousin, Tuhuy, who live happlily in their village called the Place of River Turtles more than 200 years ago. They and their families have no idea how their lives will change for the worse the day Spanish priests and soldiers march into their village during the annual harvest ceremony. This well-researched historical novel reveals what life might have really been like for California Indians in the Spanish missions, institutions that enslaved |
|  | | Lands of our Ancestors Book Two
We follow the main characters of Book One, and their children, into the Mexican Rancho period of California history.
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|  | | Little Brother of War
Sixteen-year-old Mississippi Choctaw Randy Cheska lived most of his young life in the shadow of his football-hero older brother, Jack. After Jack is tragically killed while serving in Iraq, Randy's father puts even more pressure on Randy to excel in football. But Randy has no interest in sports. Imagine Randy's surprise in discovering stickball, an ancient Native American game he's instantly drawn to. Randy's determination to play this legendary sport, guided by a mysterious visitor, leads him on a challenging and unexpected journey.
Though this is a work of fiction, it includes accurate references to traditional and contemporary Choctaw culture.
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|  | | Native American Night Before Christmas
A colorful and innovative retelling of the Christmas classic told from a Native American perspective.
" Twas the night before Christmas when all throught the tipi, not a creature was stirring-nothing crawly, nothing creepy." Illustrated by award-winning Cherokee artist Jesse T. Hummingbird.
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|  | | Native American Twelve Days of Christmas
A delightful rendition of the classic Christmas carol as seen from a Native American perspective, lyrics and images from 12 different American Indian cultural groups.
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|  | | Paranormal: A Billy Buckhorn Supernatural Thriller
The adventures of Cherokee teen Billy Buckhorn continue in this second book of the series where he and his best friend Chigger encounter the Uktena, a horned serpent thought to only be a myth.
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|  | | Powerful Medicine
Apache Indian private eye Geronimo Jones takes on a case to help recover sacred Native American artifacts and keep them out of the hands of a ruthless black market art dealer.
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|  | | Son Who Returns
A teenager who describes himself as "four kinds of brown" returns to his mother's Chumash reservation and enters the competitive world of Powwow dancing.
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|  | | Standing Strong
The life of Rhonda Runningcrane, a suicidal Blackfeet Indian teen, is transformed when she joins in the months-long oil pipeline protest to protect Native American land and water.
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|  | | Supranormal: A Billy Buckhorn Supernatural Thriller
The Billy Buckhorn trilogy comes to a close in this third book of the series as an intrepid team finds a way to lure the Uktena creature back into his ancient cave prison.
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|  | | The Language of Victory
This non-fiction book reveals little know details about American Indian soldiers who used their native languages in two world wars to send secret messages that were never decoded by enemy forces.
Using first-hand interviews with American Indian code talkers from three tribes (Choctaw, Comanche and Navajo) as well as research conducted in the National Archives and military museums, this easy-to-read book provides little known information about these brave men. The book also covers the Code Talker Recognition Act passed by Congress in 2008, which very few Americans know about. Near the end, the author examines the state of Native American languages, of which many are almost extinct, and asks readers to think about what might have been the military outcomes of two world wars if mission |
|  | | Thunder on the Plains
When Cheyenne middle-school student Danny Wind gets in trouble both in school and at home, his mother sends him back to his uncle on the Cheyenne reservation in Montana to reacquaint him with tribal culture.
The first book in the new teen Pathfinders book series from 7th Generation Books, Thunder on the Plains takes young readers from a school in Los Angeles to the remote plains of a Montana reservation. Under his uncle's supervision, Danny Wind must learn to function in an unfamiliar rural American Indian setting. During his summer adventure, he and a group of other Native teens rescue a herd of buffalo destined for slaughter. With the help of his traditional Cheyenn grandfather, Danny successfully navigates the challenges and perils he faces in his journey of self-discovery.
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|  | | Tribal Journey
After a terrible car accident, sixteen-year-old Seattle resident Jason Morgan was paralyzed in one leg and thought his life was over. That is until he reconnected with his mother's Duwamish tribal culture and got involved with the Raven Canoe Family. His epic two-week adventure took him to Canada via ocean-going canoe and changed his life forever.
This book is the second in the Pathfinders series of teen novels for reluctant readers from 7th Generation Books. The series gives readers a rare glimpse into contemporary Native American life and issues in an easy-to-read entertaining format.
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