Native Americans Resources: More Historical Fiction

1. On the Long Trail Home.
   Elisabeth J. Stewart.
   A nine-year-old Cherokee girl, is separated from her family as her people are driven by soldiers from their homes in North Carolina and forced to march to government lands in Oklahoma (Cherokee Trail of Tears).


2. Ahyoka and the Talking Leaves.
   Connie Roop.
   The story of Ahyoka, the daughter of the famous Cherokee leader, Sequoyah, who helped her father to create the Cherokee syllabary--the only written language ever invented all at once by a single person.


3. The Courage of Sarah Noble.
   Alice Dagliesh.
   Set in an earlier period (1707), the book is based on true story. Sarah was told to be very afraid of Indians before moving to the wilds of Ohio. When Sarah is left in the care of an Indian family, she forms her own opinion of Indians.


4. The Arrow Over the Door
   Joseph Bruchach.
   Two boys, one Native American, the other Quaker, must deal with the impending American Revolution. Both feel caught between the British and the Colonists.


5. The Birchbark House and The Game of Silence.
   Louise Erdich.
   The life of an Ojibwa girl, set on Madelaine Island in Lake Superior, in 1847. Has been compared to Laura Ingalls Wilders Little House series, but seen through the eyes of a Native American family.