Grade 4 Historical Fiction Unit: Native Americans

An introductory history of the Oregon Trail and its significance in opening the west to settlers, including information on the people who opened the Trail, their reasons for going west, modes of transportation, and a description of a typical day on the Trail.

Examines the self-sufficient existence of the Indian tribes living on the plains of the United States and Canada.

- Ideal for both middle school and high school libraries- Outstanding history writing for young readers- Addition to a popular series.

In this poignant story, the counting rope is a metaphor for the passage of time and for a boy's emerging confidence in facing his blindness.

When Sarah Bearpaw's family hears that a white buffalo has been born, they journey to deliver gifts to the very special calf. A contemporary story that resonates with young and old.

"The Indian in us must disappear, they say. It must be tamed." In the late 1880s, ten-year-old Young Bull is sent to boarding school to learn the white man's ways. Eve Bunting's sensitive and poetic text recreates an experience shared by many Native American children in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Irving Toddy's dramatic paintings capture the beauty and color of the world Young Bull has left behind- and the vivid memories he preserves in his ledger drawings.