Books in First Peoples of North America series

The Shawnee Indians built a rich and fascinating culture while living for centuries in the woodlands of the Midwest and Southeast. However, encroachments by white settlers slowly pushed them out of their territories. Their great chief Tecumseh nearly made history with his hopes of an Indian coalition. But the dream of Indian unity ended with his death on the battlefield, and his people were forced to move west where they reside today, in Oklahoma. (20020801)

The American Southeast stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico, including the states of Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, and Alabama as well as parts of Virginia and Maryland. But before that region was divided into states, native groups lived there. From how they found food to what their spiritual beliefs were, the books main content presents the traditional lifestyles of the Seminole, Choctaw, and Creek peoples, and the other groups that lived in the southeast. Readers learn even more from fun fact boxes and the historical images and full-color photographs that show what native peoples lives were like, both before and after European colonization.

The Shawnee Indians built a rich and fascinating culture while living for centuries in the woodlands of the Midwest and Southeast. However, encroachments by white settlers slowly pushed them out of their territories. Their great chief Tecumseh nearly made history with his hopes of an Indian coalition. But the dream of Indian unity ended with his death on the battlefield, and his people were forced to move west where they reside today, in Oklahoma.