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When Winston Parker stopped at Sutter’s Fort on his way to a ranch, he bought in California in1846, he hadn’t counted on getting entangled in the life of Moonlight, one of Captain John Sutter’s Indian slaves. In a whirlwind of events, Winston puts off sending for the woman he asked to join him in California, once he got his ranch established. Instead, he finds himself caught up between wanting to help Moonlight’s family escape a life of slavery, or continuing on with his plans of bringing his future wife to his ranch. Love and honor hang in the balance of his decision, but will he ...

One of the most thrilling Times in American History was the Pony Express Trail stretching almost 2,000 miles from Missouri to California, where pony riders--orphans and teens were preferred for this demanding deadly job--carried mail on horseback and leaped from one animal to the next every 10-15 miles to cover 75-100 miles daily. The Pony Express, however, lasted less than two years, replaced by the trans-continental telegraph. Ellis, an adventurer since his own youth when he ran away from home thumbing from Alabama to New York, retraced the Pony Express Trail by foot, horse, covered wagon...

Native Americans: American History: An Overview of "Native American History" - Your Guide To Native People, Indians, & Indian History is an amazing book that talks about this wide array of socially and geographical group of people. Native Americans: American History: An Overview of "Native American History" - Your Guide To Native People, Indians, & Indian History is a deep and in depth look into all aspects of Native American's social and geographical history. The Native American story stretches from far before the pre-Columbian era, and continue to be very well known for their rich and storied culture. Their lives convey a story of battle, strife and victory. A study of Native American heritage is a great way to learn more about their customs and habits. More importantly, listening to this book will show you the huge role they played in American society, history and independence.

Indian peoples made some 400 treaties with the United States between the American Revolution and 1871, when Congress prohibited them. They signed nine treaties with the Confederacy, as well as countless others over the centuries with Spain, France, Britain, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, Canada, and even Russia, not to mention individual colonies and states. In retrospect, the treaties seem like well-ordered steps on the path of dispossession and empire. The reality was far more complicated.

From the first time he was stopped and searched as a child, to the day he realised his mum was white, to his first encounters with racist teachers - race and class have shaped Akala's life and outlook. In this unique book he takes his own experiences and widens them out to look at the social, historical and political factors that have left us where we are today.

Malian loves spending time with her grandparents at their home on a Wabanaki reservation. She’s there for a visit when, suddenly, all travel shuts down. There’s a new virus making people sick, and Malian will have to stay with her grandparents for the duration. Everyone is worried about the pandemic, but Malian knows how to keep her family and community safe: She protects her grandparents, and they protect her. She doesn’t go outside to play with friends, she helps her grandparents use video chat, and she listens to and learns from their stories.

Book #11 of the Jab Boone Murder Mystery Series A dying ex-GI, known as The Doorman, is killing American Indian brujos and shaman. He’s holed up deep under the Owyhee Mountains, and he has booby-trapped every entrance with explosives. Jab’s team discovers his hide-out— only to become The Doorman’s prisoners themselves!

The “five civilized tribes” tried to adapt to the American way of life, while others fought to keep their land. Which was more successful? This audiobook will attempt to tell their story, the story of those five tribes.

Prayers for Native American Women to pray for their Family and their life. A Christian based book of Prayers by Janie McGee to encourage a daily prayer life with victory.

In Indian Country: Missing. Two young Lakota women, Anya Fast Runner and Veronica Likes Pretty Dresses, have gone missing, one reported missing on the reservation and the other in the county, Mike taking the report himself. Both cases are obviously related and both ladies were last seen with his old nemesis Raymond Angry Boy Whitecloud.

This is an expanded edition of the original story. Same story, same great ending, but more details! Awinita, The Legend. It is a fictional story inspired by old family stories handed down for generations in the author’s family. This is fiction and in no way indicates the life lived of the woman who inspired the story. It is a story of a Native American woman taken as a child by accident when a group of four settlers tracked down the Indians that had taken three of their young daughters. During the still of the night, the men quietly slipped into the Indian's camp and stole the young girls...

An arranged marriage to save their people. A tribesman who loves another. A spurned woman without a home. Two people determined to do their duty – one out of desperation, the other out of indifference. When Maverick loses the woman he’s loved forever, he gives in to his family and tribe’s expectations and agrees to marry a woman from a coastal tribe. His bachelor party puts him in the path of someone with fiery eyes that draws a spark. Will he be able to leave her the next day to marry another? Morgan has no home to go back to because of shame from her past mistakes and a broken heart...

Jessie Grace Weston is a mountain girl from the Allegheny Mountains of Pennsylvania and she never faints at the first sign of trouble. Instead, she picks up her rifle. She needs a friend and Luke 'River' LaRiviere fits perfectly into her life but River is Shawnee and French, trying to discover where he belongs when the French and Indian War erupts and chaos ensues in their lives. The new settlers want the land and will stop at nothing to get it. Jessie Grace and River watch as all that is familiar around them changes. When it is over, what will be left for them?

"Elsu, my love, our people have faced countless hardships, but together, we have always found a way to survive. We must hold onto hope and fight for our future, we mustn’t handover our only land to the US Army." "Gentlemen, the time has come to rid ourselves of these savages once and for all. These natives are mere obstacles standing in our path to wealth and prosperity." The year was 1885, Elsu, a courageous Red Indian warrior, yearned for a tranquil existence alongside his beloved wife Tayen, childhood friends, and their people. The heart of California cradled their last village, ...

It is the summer of 1779 and the height of the American Revolution. The New York frontier from Albany to the Pennsylvania border is in bloody turmoil as raiding parties of Iroquois Indians from different tribes join with Tories to attack their neighbors who they call rebels and traitors against the Crown of England. Deep in the forest, lying at the bottom of the largest of the Finger Lakes, is a small tribe of Cayuga Iroquois Indians who wish only to live their lives in peace by remaining neutral in the white man’s war. But what can a young brave do when he learns that the great General ...

In 1875 Idaho Territory, Emma Blackwood arrives with her late father's geological notebooks and a dream of finding precious opals in the Owyhee Mountains. But her scientific quest collides with sacred tradition when she meets Daniel Eagle Eye, a half-Nez Perce guide who guards ancient secrets about the stones his people call "thunder eggs." As they venture deeper into the mountains, Emma and Daniel discover their conflicting worlds of science and spirituality might not be so different after all. But when a rival mining company threatens both the sacred sites and their growing love, they ...

THE LADY OF THE LAKE —-The mystery of Lake Ronkonkoma Legends such as The Loch Ness Monster, Atlantis, Big Foot, and the Bermuda Triangle, the Lady of the Lake on Long Island have mystified people for centuries. As the story goes, an Indian princess became romantically involved with an English woodcutter who toiled across the lake from the Indian camp. When her father, Chief of the Setauket Tribe, discovered her love affair with the English settler, he forbid her from seeing him again. Saddened with depression, the princess rowed to the deepest part of Lake Ronkonkoma and took her own ...

The American Indian Wars details the true plight of Native Americans during the American Indian Wars. It is a no-holds barred account of the tragedies that forever altered the lives of Native Americans. Go inside the brutal battles, see what happened, and discover the moment when humanity gave way to pure, unadulterated greed, savagery, and genocide.

It’s a misty night on Puckachee Mountain high in the Alleghenies. A violent storm has cut power and left roads nearly impassable. Then a young professor’s body is found under a fallen power line…with bite wounds in her skull. This is another fascinating West Virginia mystery, testing the wits of detectiveJosh Draper and his alluring assistant Annie McBride.What caused the death? Was she electrocuted? Was she a victim of the famed eastern cougar, thought to be extinct?Surrounded by a host of characters, all with a vested interest in the case, Josh and Annie must sort through clues and ...

The Nations is a short fiction set containing twenty stories by master storyteller Thomas F. Sheehan. These tales celebrate the heroic deeds and legends of various Native American Indian tribes (Cherokee, Kiowa, Lakota) of the Old West in the United States.