S. D Nelson
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Lakota chief Crazy Horse and Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer had long been enemies when they finally crossed paths for the last time in 1876, as the people of the Great Plains resisted the invasion of their homes. Witness reports and reflections by their peers accompany side-by-side storytelling, revealing different perspectives on the historical events during their intertwined lives
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Sitting Bull (c. 1831—1890) was one of the greatest Lakota/Sioux warriors and chiefs who ever lived. He was eventually named war chief, leader of the entire Sioux nation-a title never before bestowed on anyone. As a leader, Sitting Bull resisted the United States government's attempt to move the Lakota/Sioux to reservations for more than twenty-five years.
From Sitting Bull's childhood-killing his first buffalo at age ten-to being named war chief,...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"This book is the story of the Lakota and how they were forced onto a reservation, told from the point of view of Red Cloud, warrior and chief of the Lakota. It is a heavily illustrated account, with both text and illustrations by S. D. Nelson."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Discusses what life was like for the boys who worked in America's coal mines in the early nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and shares the story of a young coal miner who endeavors to save miners trapped in a collapsed tunnel.
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
His stomach rumbling, Coyote approaches a house on Christmas Eve hoping to trick the family there out of a hot meal by dressing as Santa Claus, but Sister Raven sees the strange events and plays a wonderful trick of her own.
Author
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Pickup trucks and eagles, yellow school buses and painted horses, Mother Earth and Sister Meadowlark all join together to greet the dawn. They marvel at the colors and sounds, smells, and memories that come with the opening of the day. Animals and humans alike turn their faces upwards and gaze as the sun makes its daily journey from horizon to horizon. Dawn is a time to celebrate with a smiling heart, to start a new day in the right way, excited for...
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"A biography of Native American Ira Hayes, a shy, humble Pima Indian who fought in World War II as a Marine and was one of six soldiers to raise the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima, an event immortalized in Joe Rosenthal's famous photograph"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 3
Description
For thousands of years nomadic people from east Asia followed caribou walking east. Sometime around 20,000 BCE, they crossed the land bridge into North America. These waves of people are the ancestors to every culture on the continent. Tony Aveni, whose expertise is the scientific, mathematical, and cultural accomplishments of the first Americans, celebrates the disparate cultures by highlighting one or two from each region of the country: the Taino,...
Author
Series
Prairie tale volume 2
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
A tale of survival on the prairies of the Great Plains by the Yankton Indians.
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