Share the powerful and important history and culture of Native Americans with your students through these fictional stories, many based on real events and influential figures, and others from some of the most well-regarded voices in Native American literature today.
These titles are essential additions to any classroom library and can be used throughout the year to supplement lessons on Native American history, Native customs, and colonialism, but especially during Native American Heritage Month in November and Thanksgiving.
For example, Crossing Bok Chitto is a stirring tale of friendship and freedom. When Martha Tom, a Mississippi Choctaw girl, strays across the Bok Chitto River into the world of Southern plantations, she befriends a boy who is enslaved. When the boy's family faces separation, Martha Tom and the Choctaw women help them to escape to freedom.
Meanwhile, middle-grade readers will love The Storyteller, the story of Cherokee boy Ziggy who is dealing with his anxiety and the trauma of losing his mother mysteriously when he was younger. But when Ziggy begins to believe that clues to his mother's disappearance may lie in a nearby cave, he sets out on an adventure with his friends and his sister, Moon, to discovering what happened to her, and how his story is intrinsically tied to the Cherokee storytellers that came before him.
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