BOOKS TO NOTE: BY AND ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS (AKA INDIGENOUS PEOPLES) (of the past and of the present) (for young readers & some adult readers) (always in progress)
Of the lives of indigenous peoples, plus interactions among the lives of indigenous peoples and ‘white’ people.
See in addition: BOOKS TO NOTE: Of INDIGENOUS PEOPLES and Schools Forcing Assimilation into White Society at https://wordpress.com/page/clynjohnson.wordpress.com/6016 (scroll 3/4 down page to bold black line, then scroll below it to see titles, book covers, and brief story summaries)
A girl and her grandmother strive to protect the waters from a great black snake (actualy an oil pipeline).Of a member of U.S. President Joe Biden’s “inner circle” (Cabinet). An award-winning native American author tells the story of a little ‘white’ girl who grew up to become called ‘the grandmother of the environmental movement.”A little girl asks her grandfather how to say a word in their native language. She listens, with sadness, to the story of why he doesn’t know.A multi-award winning book of a modern Indigenous American family and a traditional recipe.
BOOKS OF THE PAST: BIOGRAPHICAL and AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL, HISTORICAL, HISTORICAL FICTION
For beginning readers – of the woman who guided Lewis and Clark on their expedition in 1804.A Native American writer of the present time provides a biographical/historical fiction account of the young woman who helped Lewis and Clark. Told in diary form with actual words by Lewis or Clark.A detailed historical fiction rendering of the life of the woman who was the guide for the Lewis & Clark expedition.A girl who comes west in a wagon train makes friends with a native American girl at her new home. One day when dressed in native dress while celebrating with her new friend, the pioneer girl is mistaken as a member of the native American village. Soldiers round up the people in the village and force them to go on what will become known as The Trail of Tears. Will the pioneer girl ever see her family again? Will the native American girl’s father’s plan to help her get home succeed or not? Of Mary Jemison, taken hostage by native Americans when a girl, but then, after years, deciding to stay with them even after given the chance to return to the white civilization.Of a young teen boy who was taken hostage by native Americans when he was a small child, then is raised by the natives, but then is returned to the ‘white civilization’ because of a new treaty between the group of natives who adopted him and ‘the great white father’ (the U.S. President).With no relation to Laura Ingalls Wilder and her older sister Mary, this story features a young mother taken hostage by native Americans, then escaping to return on foot for miles to go back to her family. Of Mary White Rowlandson (a minister’s wife) and her abduction by, and three years of captivity among, native Americans, around 1676 near Boston, Massachusetts. Also the stories of other temporary captives Mary Harbison, James Smith and a priest Father Bressani. Mrs. Rowlandson’s narrative includes accounts of her being given a stolen Bible by a sympathetic native, and something about who was the native American Weetamoo. A native princess in the place that became known as Plymouth, Massachusetts, at the time of the pilgrims.What will become of the heritage that her father is about to give to her?Of a Native American young woman of northeastern New York, who lived in the mid-1500s. Orphaned at a young age, with scars from a sickness, she was raised by relatives. She turned to helping Catholic missionaries caring for wounded from battles. Ultimately, she decided to join a cousin and become Catholic.A collection of the writings of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (part Ojibway, part Scot-Irish, now thought of as a type of ‘Anne Bradstreet’ – a poet for the New World): Philip P. Mason’s 1962 publication THE LITERARY VOYAGER(reproduces a magazine Jane and her husband, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, put together and distributed, with many of Jane’s poems and other writings, including stories about the Ojibway Native Americans). An historical novel / documentary featuring Jane Johnston Schoolcraft: Janet Lewis’ THE INVASION (1932 & 1942). // from Amazon: The Invasion, a novel originally published in 1932, marked the debut of historical novelist Janet Lewis, who went on to write numerous poems and short stories as well as novels. Lewis grew up in the Lake country of the Old Northwest. The Invasion is based on family stories she heard as a child. The Invasion displays well-researched historical accuracy, an innate understanding of and feeling for Native American culture enhanced by the author’s fluency in the Ojibway language, and an economy of style that is remarkable for a first novel. // In 1790, John Johnston, a cultivated young Irishman, came to the far corner of the Northwest Territory to make his fortune, intending to spend only a year. Instead he married Ozhah-guscoday- wayquay (The Woman of the Glade), daughter of the Ojibway chief Waub- ojeeg, and settled on the St. Mary’s River. Together they founded a family that was loved, respected, and famous throughout the region for honesty, fairness, and hospitality. Their home was the center of culture for the area and for every visiting traveler, Native American or white. The Invasion chronicles a time when one culture violently supplanted another even as it depicts a family that blends two cultures together. Henry Rowe Schoolcraft considered the Johnston family his most valued connection to the Native American population. He eventually married Jane Johnston, daughter of John and The Woman of the Glade, and remain close to her entire family. In his diary, Schoolcraft wrote of the Johnstons, “I have in fact stumbled, as it were, on the only family in Northwest America who could in Indian lore have acted as my guide, philosopher, and friend.”In 2007 Robert Dale Parker published a book with a title that is partly a translation into English of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft’s given Ojibway name: THE SOUND THE STARS MAKE RUSHING THROUGH THE SKY: THE WRITINGS OF JANE JOHNSTON SCHOOLCRAFT (a complete edition of her extensive writings, based mostly on previously unpublished manuscripts, and including a cultural history and biography).
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