Spanish Peaks Library District

Badly wounded and estranged from his partner and love interest, Anna Turnipseed, Emmett Parker has come home. After thirteen years of federal law enforcement assignments that took him to every Indian nation but his own, the veteran investigator for the Bureau of Indian Affairs has finally arrived in Oklahoma on convalescent leave. At once a son of the Nuhmuhnuh ("the People," as the Comanche call themselves) and a government investigator, he has ties...

Reprint of: The American Heritage book of Indians. 1961. Explores the history of the American Indians from their arrival via the Bering Strait to their expansion throughout the New World.

Presents a brief introduction to the Navajo Indians including information on their society, homes, food, clothing, crafts, and life today.

A Cheyenne legend explaining the origins of the stars. Also describes the history, culture, and fate of the Cheyenne Indians.

Coyote, who has a nose for trouble, insists that the crows teach him how to fly, but the experience ends in disaster for him. A group of crows gives a trickster coyote a dose of his own medicine when they tire of his conceited bragging after they agree to teach him how to dance, sing, and fly

Provides information about the Inca, a group of people who lived in the Andes Mountains of South America hundreds of years ago, discussing the Inca Empire, their skills as builders and farmers, the fall of the empire at the hands of the Spanish, and the Inca legacy.

Jamaica Kincaid's brother Devon Drew died of AIDS on January 19, 1996, at the age of thirty-three. Kincaid's incantatory, poetic, and often shockingly frank recounting of her brother's life and death is also a story of her family on the island of Antigua, a constellation centered on the powerful, sometimes threatening figure of the writer's mother. My Brother is an unblinking record of a life that ended too early, and it speaks volumes about the difficult...

Discusses the Inca empire, including their traditional way of life, the reign of King Pachacuti, the last of the great kings, the Inca civil war and the end of the empire.

In 1852, forced by the United States government to leave their beloved Island of the Golden Breasted Woodpecker, fourteen-year-old Omokayas and her Ojibwe family travel in search of a new home.

Discusses Indian tribal chiefs in the past and present and examines the lives of four prominent chiefs, from Tecumseh to Wilma Mankiller.