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Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull are just two of the famous leaders of the plains tribes renowned for their prowess on the battlefield. This book looks at the military accomplishments of tribes living in the Great Plains of the United States and Canada. The book explores the integral role of warriors in Native American culture, describes prominent conflicts and wars, and provides biographical information about the warriors themselves.
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IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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680L
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"Engaging images accompany information about Comanche warriors. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--Provided by publisher.
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On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 U.S. Army soldiers rode toward the banks of the Little Bighorn in the Montana Territory, where 3,000 Indians stood waiting for battle. The lives of two great warriors would soon be forever linked throughout history: Crazy Horse, leader of the Oglala Sioux, and General George Armstrong Custer of the Seventh Cavalry. Both were men of aggression and supreme courage. Both had become leaders in their societies...
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"On December 21, 1866, Red Cloud and a band of Oglala Lakota and Cheyenne warriors defeated a U.S. Army force led by Captain William J. Fetterman. The Fetterman defeat ended Red Cloud's war for control of the Bozeman Trail with the signing of the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868. President Ulysses S. Grant came to office the following year on a reform platform that included Indian peace policy. Grasshoppers in Summer tells the epic story of making and...
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Dr. Valentine McGillycuddy, a young contract surgeon pressed into service during the Great Sioux War of 1876, is surprised to recognize Sioux leader Chief Crazy Horse from an earlier encounter and builds upon that meeting to develop a friendship that comes to mean more to him than even the Hippocratic oath.
10) Crazy Horse
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2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
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The life of Crazy Horse who was unusual, both in his fighting style and personality.
13) The bone wars
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1989.
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IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
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In the mid-1870s, young teenage scout Thad Longsworth, blood brother to the Sioux visionary Black Elk, finds his destiny linked with that of three rival teams of paleontologists searching for dinosaur bones, as the Great Plains Indians prepare to go to war against the white man.
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