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1) Encounter
Author
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Taino Indian boy on the island of San Salvador recounts the landing of Columbus and his men in 1492.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Beginning in 1490, Anacaona keeps a record of her life as a possible successor to the supreme chief of Xaragua, as wife of the chief of Maguana, and as a warrior battling the first white men to arrive in the West Indies, ravenous for gold.
4) Morning Girl
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
Morning Girl, who loves the day, and her younger brother Star Boy, who loves the night, take turns describing their life on an island in pre-Columbian America; in Morning Girl's last narrative, she witnesses the arrival of the first Europeans to her world.
Author
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
1969
Language
English
Description
General description of all aspects of Indian life (language, subsistence, art, clothing, etc.) considerably revised from the first edition published in 1961. Now includes chapters on Indian-white relations since 1492 for the main geographic areas. Term Indians includes Eskimo.
7) Cabin 102
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
While on a cruise with his family, twelve-year-old Dusty encounters the ghost of an Arawak Indian girl through whom he comes to terms with his fears.
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