This book covers the entire story of US government and Native American relations, from the arrival of the first Europeans to the difficulties tribes still face today as they struggle to manage their own affairs.

When they rescue a kidnapped white woman who has been raised by the Crow since childhood, Preacher and his son, Hawk, must battle kill-crazy trappers and bloodthirsty Blackfeet warriors to return her to her people.

Explores the challenges today facing Native Americans in the United States concerning education and adapting to the contemporary world.

When a new stallion takes over her herd, Sierra, the adventurous daughter of the escaped saddle horse, Bonita, finds herself alone until she meets a stallion who brings her into a Native American camp.

Presents facts about various Native American cultures and offers instructions for projects, recipes, and games from nineteen Native American traditions. .

Describes the everyday life and customs of various Plains Indian tribes during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in North America.

Because of their intense struggles to preserve their language, their traditions, their families, and their very existence--the story of American Indians since the end of the nineteenth century to the present is one of unprecedented resourcefulness and reinvention. In The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee, Treuer melds history with reportage and memoir. Tracing the tribes' distinctive cultures from first contact, he explores how the depredations of each era...

Apple Starkington turned her back on her Native American heritage the moment she was called a racial slur for someone of white and Indian descent, not that she really even knew how to be an Indian. Too bad the white world doesn't accept her either. And so begins her quirky habits to gain acceptance. Apple's name, chosen by her Indian mother on her deathbed, has a double meaning: treasured apple of my eye, bit also the negative connotation--a person...