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1) Shawnee
Author
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Introduces the Shawnee people, discussing their history, traditions, and daily life.
5) Tecumseh
Author
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Tecumseh played a role in much of early US history. He formed a confederacy of Native American tribes in the early 1800s, fought future president William Henry Harrison in the Battle of Tippecanoe, and then sided with the British in the War of 1812. The life of this great Shawnee orator and leader teaches readers about standing up for one's beliefs as well as the Native American experience during the early 1800s. The main content includes biography...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The riveting story of the Shawnee brothers who led the last great pan-Indian confederacy against the United States"--
Until the Americans killed Tecumseh in 1813, he and his brother Tenskwatawa were the co-architects of the broadest pan-Indian confederation in United States history. In previous accounts of Tecumseh's life, Tenskwatawa has been dismissed as a talentless charlatan and a drunk. Cozzens shows us that while Tecumseh was a brilliant diplomat...
9) Tecumseh
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
A biography of Tecumseh, whose integrity, personal magnetism, and public speaking skills helped him to lead the Shawnee and people of other tribes in the fight to save their lives and lands from being taken by white men.
Author
Series
Deerfoot volume 1
Publisher
Phoenix International
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Fred Linden and his fifteen-year-old friend Terry Clark set out to join a party of hunters and trappers in the Louisiana Territory of the late eighteenth century, a Shawanoe warrior called Deerfoot comes to their aid more than once when they encounter danger in the Ozark Mountains.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
An account of early American settler efforts to claim Shawnee territories in Ohio, Kentucky, and other states traces how the Shawnee tribe met American forces on equal terms before being forced to fight in order to salvage its cultural and political independence.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the Appalachians, a historian writing on Katie Wyler, a young woman kidnapped from the area by Indians in 1789, sets out to retrace her tragic journey. He is unaware her spirit haunts the hills, nor is he aware that an escaped convict is on the loose. By the author of Bimbos of the Death Sun.
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