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3) Chickasaw
Author
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The Chickasaw Nation is the thirteenth largest federally recognized tribe in the United States. This text provides a comprehensive history of the Chickasaw people, whose roots date back before recorded history. Written to support elementary social studies curricula, the text covers the history of the Chickasaw Nation in the Southeastern Woodlands, the tribe's ways of life, customs, and traditions, as well as the present and future of today's people...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bridgestone Books
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Provides an overview of the past and present lives of the Chickasaw people, covering their history, daily lives and activities, customs, family life, religion, government, and history. Includes instructions for making a shell shaker, to be worn when dancing.
6) Chickasaw
Author
Series
Publisher
Big Buddy Books, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Presents information about the Native American tribe known as Chickasaw, describing their history, clothing, food, social roles, hunting customs, religious beliefs, and decline in the nineteenth century after the Indian Removal Act.
8) Chickasaw
Series
Publisher
Blackbirch Press/Thomson Gale
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Discusses the history, religion, government, economy, daily life, and ceremonies of the Chickasaw.
10) Te Ata
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"It is based on the inspiring true story of Mary Thompson Fisher, a woman who traversed cultural barriers to become one of the greatest Native American performers of all time. Born in Indian Territory, and raise on the songs and stories of her Chickasaw culture, Te Ata's journey to find her true calling led her through isolation, discovery, love and a stage career that culminated in performances for a United States president, European royalty and...
11) Chula the fox
Author
Publisher
Chickasaw Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"After a surprise attack on a hunting party leaves Chula, a Chickasaw boy living in the Homeland during the turbulent eighteenth century, without his beloved father, Chula finds himself thrust into the challenging world of a Chickasaw warrior. Haunted by his father's restless spirit, Chula looks to his Uncle Lheotubby to help him become a warrior. Despite his youth, he is determined to join the men who seek retaliation, as he vows to avenge his father....
12) Black slaves, Indian masters: slavery, emancipation, and citizenship in the Native American South
Author
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and African Americans as slaves, a fact that persisted after the tribes' removal from the Deep South to Indian Territory. The tribes formulated racial and gender ideologies that justified this practice and marginalized free black people in the Indian nations well after the Civil War and slavery had ended. Through the end...
Author
Series
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"When a decades-old feud between a wealthy plantation owner named Watson and a mixed-blood Chickasaw family explodes in violence, Elijah Two-Buck finds himself homeless and on the run. Locating his brother, the infamous Kid Jace, and his gang of cattle rustlers, Lige reluctantly joins the band of thieves. But when a Watson-led raid on the Two-Buck family farm results in the loss of innocent lives and the law refuses to intervene, the brothers realize...
14) Mission to space
Author
Publisher
White Dog Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Go on a Mission to Space with Chickasaw astronaut John Herrington, as he shares his flight on the space shuttle Endeavour and his thirteen-day mission to the international Space Station. Learn what it takes to train for space flight, see the tasks he completed in space, and join him on his spacewalk 220 miles above the earth.
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Note: Freedmen are Afro-Americans.
Can be used as a finding aid or index to the Dawes Commission, 1896-1909. Instructions: Look up name and find their roll # in v. 1, Index to the Final Rolls of the Five Civilized Tribes. Then go to v. 2, the Final Rolls of the Five Civilized Tribes, look up roll # to get census (card) #. To find the census cards see: United States. Commission to the Five Civilized Tribes / Enrollment of the Five Civilized Tribes,...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The diaries of thirteen-year-old Zoey, who lives in modern day Tennessee, and Prudence, who lives in 1811 Missouri, tell how the two girls survive the New Madrid earthquakes and the subsequent floods after Zoey travels back in time.
