Navajo long walk / Nancy M. Armstrong ; illustrations by Paulette Livers Lambert.
"In 1864 the Navajo Indians were forced by the U.S. Cavalry to leave their ancestral home in Arizona for a government internment camp nearly three hundred miles away in New Mexico ..."--Cover, p. [4].
Record details
- ISBN: 1879373564 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9781879373563 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 120 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
- Publisher: Boulder, CO : Roberts Rinehart Book/Taylor Trade Pub. in cooperation with the Council for Indian Education/Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group : 1994.
Content descriptions
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Trouble comes to the mesa -- Off to the hide-out -- Soldiers find the canyon -- Time to surrender -- Back to the mesa -- On to Fort Defiance -- A happy surprise -- The long walk begins -- The long walk continues -- Crossing the Rio Grande -- A restful stopover -- Arrival at Fort Sumner -- Kee meets Smoke -- School begins -- Weaving brings happiness -- Cold, hunger, and Comanche raiders -- A new friend -- Little Mare enters Kee's life -- A big surprise -- Homeward bound -- Back to the mesa -- Home at last.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Lummi Library | JUV ARMS 1994 | 2240517 | Juv | Reshelving | - |