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In the summer of 1932, on the banks of Minnesota's Gilead River, the Lincoln Indian Training School is a pitiless place where Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to Odie O'Banion, a lively orphan boy whose exploits constantly earn him the superintendent's wrath. Odie and his brother, Albert, are the only white faces among the hundreds of Native American children at the school. After...
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The compelling story of U.S. Air Force Major Joe Mack, a man born out of time. When his experimental aircraft is forced down in Russia and he escapes a Soviet prison camp, he must call upon the ancient skills of his Indian forebears to survive the vast Siberian wilderness. Only one route lies open to Mack: the path of his ancestors, overland to the Bering Strait and across the sea to America. But in pursuit is a legendary tracker, the Yakut native...
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"A Woman of Courage Makes an Epic Journey Take a three-thousand mile journey with Amanda Pearson as she leaves the disgrace of a broken engagement and joins the work at a Quaker mission in the western wilds. The trip is fraught with danger, and Amanda is near death before reaching her destination. Among those she meets are an Indian woman who becomes her first convert and a half-Indian trapper who seems to be her biggest critic. But love follows her...
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Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 12
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English
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In Alberta, the star-crossed romance between Martin Forbes, a young white missionary, and Running Fawn, an Indian maiden. She is one of his most promising pupils, but so is Silver Fox and it is he who gets her in the end.
6) Small Wolf
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English
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A young Native American boy sets out to hunt on Manhattan Island and discovers some strange people with white faces and very different ideas about land.
8) Best friends
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Hyperion Books for children
Pub. Date
�1998
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English
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When a settler's young daughter learns that soldiers will force the Nez Perc�e off the nearby land, she uses a doll to warn her Indian friend of the impending danger.
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Avalon Books
Pub. Date
©2010
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English
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Dave Merrill, a two-fisted ranger out of Fort Pitt, lives by a tough code. Young, reckless, and brimming with hell, he just naturally jumps in to save the pretty widow, Angie Wright, from a brutal Shawnee war party. He deliberately leads them away, using himself as bait. Dave is caught, but not without a desperate chase and a bitter fight. He is taken to Timber Wolf Pass, home of the vengeful Shawnee ancestors. No white man has ever come down alive...