Book reviews from Cheyennemoonmarket

The American Indian Story

by May (illus. by Lynd Ward) McNeer

Hardback,oversized childrens library bk w/26 chapters on different Indian tribes culture and history. Many excellent illustrations,1963 CR,95 pgs.

Bone Game: A Novel (American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series

by Louis Owens

Mystery Novel which addresses more pressing concerns, psychological mystery of mixed blood Native Americans,a metaphysical mystery scarie enough to be read around campfire, a thrilling thriller

Sitting Bull and the Paradox of Lakota Nationhood (Library of American...

by Gary Clayton Anderson

Another part of Native American history told from a different perspective

Songs from This Earth on Turtle's Back: Contemporary American Indian Poetry (Paperback

by Joseph Bruchac,editor

American Indian Poetry at its best

Where Do You Think You're Going, Christopher Columbus? (Hardcover

by Jean Fritz

great childrens book for history

Lon Po Po (Caldecott Medal Book) (Hardcover

by Ed Young

"Once, long ago, there was a woman who lived alone in the country with her three children, Shang, Tao, and Paotze",another version of the all time childrens favorite, Little Red Riding Hood

The Velveteen Rabbit or How Toys Became Real (Hardcover)

by Margery Williams (Author), Michael Green (Illustrator

great childrens classic

The Value of Fairness: The Story of Nellie Bly (A Valuetale) (Hardcover

by Ann Johnson

classic tale that has lesson in fairness for reader

Mystery of the Indian Cave (Hardcover

by Anne Roller Issler

great fictional mystery for young readers

Walt Disney's Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (Hardcover

by Teddy Slater, Bill Langley, Diana Wakeman

everyone's favorite

Beardance (Hardcover

by Will Hobbs

great juvenile reading which incorporates native american history,culture in the story

Eskimo Diary (Hardcover

by Thomas Fredericksen (Author), Emil Rosing (Foreword

A unique record of far north life,ESKIMO DIARY is the inspiring story of coming of age,learning skills needed for survivial. His narrative tales of forefathers,legends recollected from more ancient Greenland days,are woven into his learning life skills.

Little Salt

by Wendy Kesselman

wonderful story of two 12 year old girls, one Native American, Montana born, one A New York native, horses adventure,Great story for all

Growing up Native American: An Anthology by Riley,Patricia

by Patricia Riley

20 pieces about comming of age as a North American Indian, by such writers as Leslie Silko, N. Scott Momaday, Louise Erdrich,Michael Dorris.Brief introductions by Riley for stories rangeing from a 19th-century boy's first buffalo hunt to todays memoirs of childhoods scarred by poverty, racism and abuse,fiction,nonfiction from the U.S. and Canada.Geary Hobson adds parts of novel about Indian family relationships in Arkansas,Simon Ortiz writes about the difficult transition from Acoma language to English,also John Joseph Mathews shows an Osage boys struggle with Christianity in 1920s in his book, Showdown.