The Miami Valley School Library
Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Indigenous America / by Liam McDonald ; introduction by Doug Kiel.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: True history (Penguin Workshop (Firm))Description: 176 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780593386088
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 973.1 MCD 23/eng/20220518
LOC classification:
  • E77 .M1148 2022
Contents:
Foreword: A note from the author -- Introduction: A note from Doug Kiel -- Part 1: Knowledge -- Chapter 1: The Haudenosaunee Confederacy -- Chapter 2: The story of the Great Peacemaker -- Chapter 3: The three sisters and the origin of maize -- Chapter 4: Cahokia: an ancient city -- Chapter 5: Power in the past -- Part 2: Myths -- Chapter 6: Myths, stereotypes, and tropes, about Indigenous People -- Part 3: Erasure -- Chapter 7: Disease, war, and mass murder -- Chapter 8: An American genocide -- Chapter 9: Native land, the Cherokee Nation, and the Trail of Tears -- Chapter 10: The Dakota Uprising and the Ghost Dance at Wounded Knee -- Chapter 11: Native American boarding schools -- Part 4: Resilience -- Chapter 12: The rise of the American Indian Movement (AIM) -- Chapter 13: Land activism and environmentalism -- Chapter 14: Indigenous musicians and storytellers -- Epilogue: A closing note from the author.
Summary: "American schoolchildren have long been taught that their country was 'discovered' by Christopher Columbus in 1492. But the history of Native Americans in the United States goes back tens of tens of thousands of years prior to Columbus's and other colonizers' arrivals. So, what's the true history?"--
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
Non Fiction MVS Library Children's Room G- Nonfiction (Juvenile) 973.1 MCD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 4009352

Includes bibliographical references (page 176).

Foreword: A note from the author -- Introduction: A note from Doug Kiel -- Part 1: Knowledge -- Chapter 1: The Haudenosaunee Confederacy -- Chapter 2: The story of the Great Peacemaker -- Chapter 3: The three sisters and the origin of maize -- Chapter 4: Cahokia: an ancient city -- Chapter 5: Power in the past -- Part 2: Myths -- Chapter 6: Myths, stereotypes, and tropes, about Indigenous People -- Part 3: Erasure -- Chapter 7: Disease, war, and mass murder -- Chapter 8: An American genocide -- Chapter 9: Native land, the Cherokee Nation, and the Trail of Tears -- Chapter 10: The Dakota Uprising and the Ghost Dance at Wounded Knee -- Chapter 11: Native American boarding schools -- Part 4: Resilience -- Chapter 12: The rise of the American Indian Movement (AIM) -- Chapter 13: Land activism and environmentalism -- Chapter 14: Indigenous musicians and storytellers -- Epilogue: A closing note from the author.

"American schoolchildren have long been taught that their country was 'discovered' by Christopher Columbus in 1492. But the history of Native Americans in the United States goes back tens of tens of thousands of years prior to Columbus's and other colonizers' arrivals. So, what's the true history?"--

Ages 10 and up Penguin Workshop

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

Powered by Koha