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Mrs. Benton
Collection Total:
2,550 Items
Last Updated:
Sep 10, 2023
Chichen Itza: A Practical Guide and Photo Album
Xavier Alducin Varela*****A tour of this part of Mexico using maps, color photos,and descriptions of ancient ruins left by the Mayan and Toltec civilizations.
Children's Atlas of Native Americans: Native Cultures of North and South America
Rand McNally and Company*****Full-color maps, historical photographs, and a lively text trace—chronologically and geographically—the diversity of native American cultures, from Alaska to the Andes and beyond.
If You Lived with the Cherokees
Peter Roop, Connie Roop*****The third title in a series about Native American people, this book reveals what it was like to grow up in a Cherokee family long ago. Full-color illustrations by a Cherokee artist complement facts about Cherokee games, language, dwellings, medicine, names, and more.
If You Lived with the Iroquois
Ellen Levine*****Detailed, four-color paintings and a question-and-answer text bring to life the traditional life, customs, and everyday world of the Iroquois - one of the most powerful and influential of the Indian nations.
If You Lived with the Sioux
Ann McGovern*****If you lived with the Sioux Indians
—Would you hunt for food?
—What kind of home would you live in?
—What would be the bravest thing you could do?

This book tells you what it was like to live as a Sioux Indian in North and South Dakota during the years 1800 to 1850.
If You Lived with the Sioux
Ann McGovern*****If you lived with the Sioux Indians
—Would you hunt for food?
—What kind of home would you live in?
—What would be the bravest thing you could do?

This book tells you what it was like to live as a Sioux Indian in North and South Dakota during the years 1800 to 1850.
If You Lived with the Sioux
Ann McGovern*****If you lived with the Sioux Indians
—Would you hunt for food?
—What kind of home would you live in?
—What would be the bravest thing you could do?

This book tells you what it was like to live as a Sioux Indian in North and South Dakota during the years 1800 to 1850.
Indian Homes
Keith Brandt*****Describes the characteristics of the different types of dwellings used by various Indian tribes throughout North America.
Indians of the Eastern Woodlands
Rae Bains*****Describes the history, customs, religion, government, homes, and people of the four main Indian groups that lived in the woodlands of the Northeast.
Indians of the Eastern Woodlands
Rae Bains*****Describes the history, customs, religion, government, homes, and people of the four main Indian groups that lived in the woodlands of the Northeast.
Indians of the Plains
Rae Bains*****Describes the history, customs, people, and day-to-day life of the various Indian tribes that lived on the broad prairie lands between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains.
Native Americans
Judith Simpson, Lorann S. A. Pendleton, David Hurst Thomas*****People first came to the continent of North America during the Ice Age. Some settled in the bleak lands of the Arctic, while others walked south as far as California and Florida. They formed different tribes with their own languages, customs and ceremonies. Native Americans is the story of these people - from the hunters and warriors who speared woolly mammoths and long-horned bison, to the farmers and foragers who searched for food in the mountains and on the coast. They depended on the land for everything: for wild plants to use in healing rituals; and for materials to make and decorate clothes, masks and costumes, and to build dwellings and boats. Many Native Americans believed that the sky, earth, plants, animals and rivers had powerful spirits. Some told stories of mythical creatures that formed the world and brought good harvests. They danced, sang and prayed to the spirits and had solemn pipe-smoking rituals and powwows to ask the spirits for a successful hunt or to bring peace to warring tribes. When Columbus came to the New World, life changed for the Native Americans. The new settlers often took land by force, and herded the people o
North American Indians: A Pictorial History of the Indian Tribes of North America
Colin Taylor*****A pictorial History of the Indian Tribes of North America, more than 170 illustrations.
The Ancient Americas
McDougal Littell*****Richly illustrated and hardbound, this volume of high-interest, historical fiction includes original stories, brief biographies, retellings of classic literature, primary-source documents, and literary connections focusing on key people and events in history during the time period of The Ancient Americas, 30,000 B.C.–A.D. 1600.
The Iroquois
Barbara Graymont*****
The Native Americans Told Us So
Melvin Berger*****Covers various agricultural, astronomical, and survivalist facts that early settlers learned from America's natives.