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Excerpt: "CONTAINING: Whatever he observed remarkable, or worthy of public Notice, during his Travels to and from that Nation; wherein the Country, Government, Genius, and Customs of the Inhabitants, are authentically described. ALSO: The Principal Occurrences during their Residence in London Illustrated with An Accurate Map of their Over-hill Settlement, and a curious Secret Journal, taken by the Indians out of the Pocket of a Frenchman they had...
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Grandmother stories volume 7
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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 26 cm.
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231 pages ; 24 cm
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"Nineteen-year-old Cowney Sequoyah yearns to escape his hometown of Cherokee, North Carolina, in the heart of the Smoky Mountains. When a summer job at Asheville's luxurious Grove Park Inn and Resort brings him one step closer to escaping the hills that both cradle and suffocate him, he sees it as an opportunity. With World War II raging in Europe, the inn is the temporary home of Axis diplomats and their families, who are being held as prisoners...
9) The Cherokee
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48 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
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Young readers are introduced to the history and culture of the Cherokee Indians.
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Grandmother stories volume 6
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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 27 cm.
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272 pages ; 22 cm
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"Steeped in Cherokee myths and history, a novel about a fractured family reckoning with the tragic death of their son long ago-from National Book Award finalist Brandon Hobson"--
Quah, Oklahoma. In the fifteen years since their teenage son, Ray-Ray, was killed in a police shooting, the Echota family has been suspended in private grief. The mother, Maria, increasingly struggles to manage the onset of Alzheimer's in her husband, Ernest. Their adult...
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Grandmother stories volume 2
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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 26 cm.
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When humans begin to hunt animals, the animals hold councils and decided to protect themselves by harming the people, but the plants, knowing that people took care of them, find a way to help.
15) The Cherokee
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46 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 21 cm.
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48 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
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Explains how the Cherokee people were forced from their land by way of the Trail of Tears, and details the horrible living conditions that they overcame in order to survive, how they created their own alphabet and language, fought to preserve their culture, and the way they live today.
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