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Books in North American Indians of Achievement Ser series

  • Wilma Mankiller: Principal Chief of the Cherokees

    Melissa Schwartz

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Pub, April 1, 1994)
    A biography of the Indian activist who became the first woman to head the Cherokee Nation
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  • Hiawatha: Founder of the Iroquois Confederacy

    Nancy Bonvillain

    Paperback (Chelsea House Pub, Sept. 1, 1992)
    Examines the life and career of the fifteenth-century Iroquois Indian.
  • Quanah Parker: Comanche Chief

    Claire Wilson

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Pub, Jan. 1, 1992)
    Examines the life and career of the Comanche chieftain
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  • Chief Gall: Sioux War Chief

    Jane Shumate

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Pub, Jan. 1, 1995)
    Examines the life and career of the Dakota Indian chief
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  • Sequoyah: Inventor of the Cherokee Alphabet

    Jane Shumate, W. David Baird

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Pub, July 1, 1993)
    A biography of the Cherokee Indian who created a method for his people to write and read their own language
  • Pocahontas: Powhatan Peacemaker

    Anne Holler

    Paperback (Chelsea House Pub, Oct. 1, 1992)
    Discusses the life of Pocahontas and her role as peacemaker between the Powhatan tribes and the settlers of Jamestown
  • Peter Macdonald: Former Chairman of the Navajo Nation

    Celia Bland, W. David Baird

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Pub, Nov. 1, 1994)
    Examines the life and career of the controversial American Indian leader
  • The Abenaki

    Colin G. Calloway, Frank W. Porter

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Pub, Feb. 1, 1989)
    Describes the history of the Abenaki, looks at their culture, and recounts their interaction with European settlers
    Z+
  • Pontiac: Ottawa Rebel

    Celia Bland, W. David Baird

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Pub, Sept. 1, 1994)
    Recounts the life of the Ottawa war chief, and recounts his role in the rebellion against the British in 1760
  • Jim Thorpe

    Bob Bernotas, W. David Baird

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Pub, June 1, 1992)
    A biography of the American Indian who won gold medals in the pentathlon and decathlon at the 1912 Olympics and played both professional baseball and football
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  • Hiawatha: Founder of the Iroquois Confederacy

    Nancy Bonvillain, W. David Baird

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Pub, June 1, 1992)
    Examines the life and career of the fifteenth-century Iroquois Indian
  • The Lumbee

    Adolph L. Dial, Frank W. Porter

    Library Binding (Chelsea House Pub, March 1, 1993)
    Discusses the history of the second largest Indian group in the United States, whose origin is traced to the Hatteras Indians who supposedly adopted the English settlers of the Roanoke colony into their tribe