The first Americans / Joy Hakim.
Presents the history of the Native Americans from earliest times through the arrival of the first Europeans.
Record details
- ISBN: 019515259X (set)
- ISBN: 0195153197
- ISBN: 0195153200 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Physical Description: 184 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm.
- Edition: 3rd ed.
- Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, [2003]
- Copyright: ©2003
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-169) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | History? Why? -- Away with time -- In the beginning -- Feature-Old mysteries and new discoveries -- How the first Americans became Indians -- Feature-Some thoughts on dinosaurs and the earth -- Put on your earmuffs -- Feature-life the far north -- Cliff dwellers and others -- Show-offs -- Feature-People of the Northwest coast -- Taking a tour -- Plains Indians are not plain at all -- Feature-Buffalo on the Great Plains -- Feature-How did they say "Mom"? -- Mound for mound, those are heavy hills -- Feature-Digging up dirt on the mound builders -- Indians of the eastern forests -- People of the long house -- Let's turn north -- Feature-Vikings at L'anse aux meadows -- Feature-How do you know what you know? -- feature-Navigation instruments -- Power of the press -- Boy named Christopher has a dream -- New land is "discovered" -- Feature-from Columbus' pen -- Next voyage -- Stowaways-Worms and a dog -- Sailing around the world -- What's in a name? -- Feature-First map to include "America" -- About beliefs and ideas -- Feature-Stories of how the world began -- New Spain -- Feature-ways of reading and writing -- Feature-Life among the Maya and Aztec -- Feature-Tenochtitlan -- Ponce de Leon, Pizarro, and Spanish colonies -- Gloom, doom, and a bit of cheer -- North of New Spain -- Looking for Cibola with Coronado -- Conquistadors-California to Florida -- Place called Santa Fe -- Las Casas Cares -- Big picture -- From Spain to England to France -- France in America-pirates and adventurers -- Rain, ambush, and murder -- New France -- Feature-Traveling by canoe and portage -- Elizabeth and friends -- Utopia in America -- Lost-a colony -- Feature-from John White's log -- Armada is a fleet of ships -- Keep reading. |
Target Audience Note: | 820 Lexile. |
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Subject: | Indians of North America > History > Juvenile literature. America > Discovery and exploration > Juvenile literature. |
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