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Cherokee Indians Cherokee Indians Biography Cherokee Indians Fiction Cherokee Indians Folklore Cherokee Indians Government relations Cherokee Indians History Cherokee Indians Juvenile fiction Cherokee Indians Relocation Indians of North America Oklahoma Fiction Trail of Tears, 1838-1839Sorell, Traci
Summary: The descendant of Cherokee ancestors who had been forced to walk the Trail of Tears, Wilma Mankiller experienced her own forced removal from the land she grew up on as a child. As she got older and learned more about the injustices her people had faced, she dedicated her life to instilling pride in Native heritage and reclaiming Native rights. She went on to become the first woman Principal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MANWeso, T. F. Pecore (Thomas F. Pecore)
Summary: "Native Americans have a long tradition of storytelling. Now, you can easily introduce your children to these rich cultures with a compilation of powerful tales from multiple tribes like the Cheyenne and the Lenape. What sets this book apart from other Native American books for kids: Tales from 12 tribes--Kids will embark on a literary adventure with 12 stories from tribes around America,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rockridge Press 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Trail of tears : Cherokee legacy: Documents the forced removal in 1838 of the Cherokee Nation from the southeastern United States to Oklahoma. Shows the suffering endured by the Cherokees as they lost their land and the difficult conditions they endured on the trail. Describes how thousands of Cherokees died during the Trail of Tears, nearly a quarter of the nation, including most of their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRAStarr, Emmet.
Summary: A history of the Cherokee Indians, from conjectures about their possible origin of these peoples, to events in the early 1900s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 2003
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.373 StarrSorell, Traci
Summary: "Mary Golda Ross designed classified projects for Lockheed Air Corporation as the company's first female engineer. Find out how her passion for math and the Cherokee values she was raised with shaped her life and work"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Millbrook Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ROSHicks, Brian
Summary: Relates the history of the forced relocation of the Cherokee from Georgia, Tennessee, and North Carolina to Indian territory in Oklahoma and the struggle by their principle chief, John Ross, to prevent their removal from their ancestral lands.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROSS, JOHN HICBruchac, Joseph
Summary: Recounts how the Cherokees, after fighting to keep their land in the nineteenth century, were forced to leave and travel 1200 miles to a new settlement in Oklahoma, a terrible journey known as the Trail of Tears.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1999
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2 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED BRUBruchac, Joseph
Summary: A quarrel between the first man and the first woman is reconciled when the Sun causes strawberries to grow out of the earth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 BRU1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BRU
Coulson, Art
Summary: Eleven-year-old Cherokee Zach Feather is going on his first pheasant hunting trip in Oklahoma with his parents, his first ever bird dog (Koda), and his grandfather's shotgun; but when the hunt gets started he discovers that there is a lot more to hunting than he realized and he needs to learn patience--if he survives his encounter with a very annoyed rattlesnake.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2022
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Summary: An introduction to the locale, history, way of life, and culture of the Cherokee Indians.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Pub. 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.3 BIRHoig, Stanley W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Arkansas Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.3 HOIChuculate, Eddie D.
Summary: "Award-winning author Eddie Chuculate recounts his experience growing up in rural Oklahoma, from boyhood to young manhood, in an evocative and vivid voice. "Granny was full-blooded Creek, but the Bureau of Indian Affairs insisted she was thirteen-sixteenths. She showed her card to me. I'd sit at the kitchen table and stare at her when she was eating, wondering how you could be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 CHUSummary: Documents the forced removal in 1838 of the Cherokee Nation from the southeastern United States to Oklahoma. Shows the suffering endured by the Cherokees as they lost their land and the difficult conditions they endured on the trail. Describes how thousands of Cherokees died during the Trail of Tears, nearly a quarter of the nation, including most of their children and elders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rich-Heape Films 2006
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRARogers, Andrea L.
Summary: Tsalagi should never have to live on human blood, but sometimes things just happen to sixteen-year-old girls. Making her YA debut, Cherokee writer Andrea L. Rogers takes her place as one of the most striking voices of the horror renaissance. Horror fans will get their thrills in this collection, from werewolves to vampires to zombies, all the time-worn horror baddies are there. But so are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ROGSmith, William Jay
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Publisher / Publication Date: Curbstone Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 SMIPress, Petra.
Summary: Examines the culture, history, and society of the Cherokee.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Compass Point Books 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.3 PREVander Hook, Sue
Summary: Presents a brief history of the Cherokee Indians and describes their forced migration, which came to be known as the Trail of Tears, following the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Pub. 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.3 VANLevine, Michelle.
Summary: Discusses the history, culture, and contemporary life of the Cherokee people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications Co. 2007
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Summary: Excited to go on his first family hunting trip, twelve-year-old Rodney learns Cherokee traditions, gun safety, and patience.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone 2022
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC COUSummary: "There has been a great deal of writing the past several decades about Native American Code Talkers of World War Two. The published works have been about Navajos and the tremendous contribution they made in the Pacific campaigns of the war. What is often overlooked is the role played in both World Wars by men of other tribes. There were Cherokee, Choctaw, Comanche, Creek and other tribal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reycraft Books 2019
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Summary: When his mother leaves, sixteen-year-old Bobby, a Choctaw, begins living in a hole in his backyard to avoid his abusive father, and is surprised to find friends and neighbors willing to help him. Inspired by the traditional Choctaw story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 7th Generation 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC TINVerble, Margaret
Summary: After the Civil War, people have gone missing in the Cherokee Nation. Check, matriarch of her family, is accustomed to wielding authority. And she's determined to find out what's going on.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2019
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC VERBruchac, Joseph
Summary: "The story of Sequoyah and the creation of the Cherokee syllabary, as told by his thirteen year old son"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BRUBruchac, Joseph
Summary: Jesse Smoke, a sixteen-year-old Cherokee, begins a journal in 1837 to record stories of his people and their difficulties as they face removal along the Trail of Tears. Includes a historical note giving details of the removal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2001