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Navajo long walk / Nancy M. Armstrong ; illustrations by Paulette Livers Lambert.

Summary:

"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.
Subject:
Navajo Indians > Juvenile fiction.
Indians of North America > Juvenile fiction.
Concentration camps > New Mexico > Juvenile fiction.
Grandmothers > Juvenile fiction.
Grandparent and child > Juvenile fiction.
Mother and child > Juvenile fiction.
Brothers and sisters > Juvenile fiction.
Families > Juvenile fiction.
Cooperativeness > Juvenile fiction.
Horses > Juvenile fiction.
Human-animal relationships > Juvenile fiction.
Moving, Household > Juvenile fiction.
Individuality > Juvenile fiction.
Authors, American > Utah > Juvenile fiction.
Arizona > Juvenile fiction.
New Mexico > Juvenile fiction.
Genre:
Historical fiction, American > Juvenile fiction.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Lummi Library JUV ARMS 1994 2240517 Juv Reshelving -