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American Indian Genre
Books in the American Indian genre:
The American Indian Story (1963)
Author(s):
May McNeer
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Bread and Butter Indian (1964)
Based on family records, this is a story of colonial America.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Anne Colver
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
Dream of the Blue Heron (1966)
A young Chippewa Indian boy is caught up in the fierce conflict between his traditional forest-dwelling grandparents and his father, who works in a lumbermill and brings the boy into the modern world.
Author(s):
Victor Barnouw
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
Willie Was Different: The Tale of an Ugly Thrushling (1969)
The story of a thrush who was not content with his native song and became an artist.
Author(s):
Mollie Rockwell
Norman Rockwell
Illustrator(s):
Norman Rockwell
The King’s Ditch (1971)
King Ola rashly promises a fish to each menehune who helps bring water to his kingdom during a drought.
Author(s):
Francine Jacobs
Illustrator(s):
Jerry Pinkney
Heirs of the Ancient Maya (1972)
The story of a tribe of Mayan Indians living in the Chiapas region of Mexico.
Author(s):
Christine Price
Illustrator(s):
Gertrude Duby Blom
The Treasure of Topo-el-Bampo (1972)
Author(s):
Scott O’Dell
Illustrator(s):
Lynd Ward
A boy of Taché (1973)
Charlie is hunting beaver with his grandparents, when grandpa Za becomes ill. And Charlie has to take the boat down river by himself to fetch the air ambulance.
Author(s):
Ann Blades
Illustrator(s):
Ann Blades
Caddy Woodlawn (1973)
Pioneer adventures of a girl growing up in northern Wisconsin.
Author(s):
Carol Ryrie Brink
Illustrator(s):
Trina Schart Hyman
Tintin in America (1979)
Tonweya and the Eagles and Other Lakota Tales (1979)
A collection of Native American myths and legends from oral tradition.
Author(s):
Rosebud Yellow Robe
Illustrator(s):
Jerry Pinkney
Hiawatha (1983)
By the shores of Gitchy-Gumee,
By the shining big sea water …
Author(s):
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Illustrator(s):
Susan Jeffers
Brother Eagle, Sister Sky (1991)
An environmental message from a Native American chief.
Author(s):
Chief Seattle
Illustrator(s):
Susan Jeffers
Wagons West! (1996)
Pioneers head west to the Oregon territory by wagon train.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Roy Gerrard
Illustrator(s):
Roy Gerrard
Tintin in America (2004)
Tintin visits the USA and meet Al Capone before heading west where he encounters a tribe of Blackfeet. This is a facsimile of the original black and white version.