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Author
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A Cherokee boyhood of the 1930's is remembered in generous, loving detail ... an unbelievably rich life.
Forrest Carter, from the age of four or five, was inseparable from his part-Cherokee grandfather, who owned a farm and ran a country store nearby. Granpa called him Little Sprout; when he grew taller, he became Little Tree. From Granpa he absorbed the Cherokee ethic; to give love without expecting gratitude, to take from the land only what you...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While walking through a forest of sequoias, a father tells his family the story of the tree's namesake. Sequoyah was a Cherokee man who invented a system of writing for his people. His neighbors feared the symbols he wrote and burned down his home. All of his work was lost, but, still determined, he tried another approach. The Cherokee people finally accepted the written language after Sequoyah taught his six-year-old daughter to read.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Growing up on the Navajo Indian Reservation, David Crow and his three siblings idolized their dad. Tall, strong, smart, and brave, the self-taught Cherokee regaled his family with stories of his World War II feats. But as time passed, David discovered the other side of Thurston Crow, the ex-con with his own code of ethics that justified cruelty, violence, lies--even murder. A shrewd con artist with a genius IQ, Thurston intimidated David with beatings...
Author
Publisher
Blackbirch Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the life of the Cherokee woman who overcame many hardships to become an activist and leader of her people, even serving as the first woman Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.
10) Sequoyah
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications Co
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the life of Cherokee inventor Sequoyah, discussing his creation of the Cherokee Native American alphabet, his efforts to record his people's history, his varied careers, and other related topics.
Author
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A modern medicine man portrayed through the words of the people he has helped Robert J. Conley did not set out to chronicle the life of Cherokee medicine man John Little Bear. Instead, the medicine man came to him. Little Bear asked Conley to write down his story, to reveal to the world ?what Indian medicine is really about.? For Little Bear, as for the Cherokee ancestors who brought their traditions over the Trail of Tears to Indian Territory, the...
16) Sequoya
Author
Publisher
Raintree Childrens Books
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
Description
A biography of the Cherokee Indian who invented a system of writing for his people in the early nineteenth century and after whom the giant sequoia trees and Sequoia National Park were named.
20) Wilma Mankiller
Author
Series
Publisher
Cherry Lake Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The My Itty-Bitty Bio series are biographies for the earliest readers. This book examines the life of activist and community developer Wilma Mankiller, the first woman to lead a major Native American tribe, in a simple, age-appropriate way that helps children develop word recognition and reading skills. The series celebrates diversity, covering women and men from a range of backgrounds and professions including immigrants and individuals with disabilities."--...
