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The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Americas, their descendants, and many ethnic groups who identify with those peoples. They are often also referred to as Native Americans, First Nations and by Christopher Columbus' historical mistake Indians, modernly disambiguated as the American Indian race, American Indians, Amerindians, Amerinds or Red Indians. It's now considered racially insensitive to call this race "Red Indians".

According to the still-debated New World migration model, a migration of humans from Eurasia to the Americas took place via Beringia, a land bridge which formerly connected the two continents across what is now the Bering Strait. These early Paleoamericans soon spread throughout the Americas, diversifying into many hundreds of culturally distinct nations and tribes. According to the oral histories of many of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, they have been living there since their genesis, described by a wide range of traditional creation accounts.

Application of the term "Indian" originated with Christopher Columbus, who thought that he had reached India (his original destination). This served to imagine a kind of racial or cultural unity for the aboriginal peoples of the Americas. Once created, the unified "Indian" was codified in law, religion, and politics. The unitary idea of "Indians" was not originally shared by indigenous peoples, but many now embrace the identity.

While some indigenous peoples of the Americas were historically hunter-gatherers, many practiced aquaculture and agriculture. The impact of their agricultural endowment to the world is a testament to their time and work in reshaping, taming, and cultivating the flora indigenous to the Americas. Some societies depended heavily on agriculture while others practiced a mix of farming, hunting, and gathering. In some regions the indigenous peoples created monumental architecture, large-scale organized cities, chiefdoms, states, and massive empires.

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Adopted by Indians
by Thomas Jefferson Mayfield
from Heyday Books
for 5th-8th grade
in Native American History (Location: HISA-19NAT)
$18.00
Anpao
by Jamake Highwater
from HarperCollins
for 5th-9th grade
1978 Newbery Honor Book
in Action & Adventure Stories (Location: FIC-ADV)
$7.64
Aztecs
Journey Into Civilization
by Robert Nicholson and Claire Watts
from Chelsea House Publishing
for 4th-7th grade
in Ancient America (Location: HISW-ANAM)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Battle of the Little Bighorn
by Mark Henckel
1st edition from Falcon Press Publishing
for 5th-8th grade
in Native American History (Location: HISA-19NAT)
$3.00 (1 in stock)
Bentwood Box
by Nan McNutt
from Sasquatch Books
for 4th-6th grade
in Native American History (Location: HISA-19NAT)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Birchbark House
by Louise Erdrich
from Hyperion/Madison Press
Historical Fiction for 4th-6th grade
National Book Award Finalist
in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
$3.20 (1 in stock)
Buffalo Hunt
by Russell Freedman
from Holiday House
Historical Non-Fiction for 4th-8th grade
in Native American History (Location: HISA-19NAT)
Captured Words
The Good and the Beautiful Library Level 5
by Frances Williams Brown, edited by Jenny Phillips
2022 printing from The Good and the Beautiful
for 5th grade
in GATB Language Arts & Reading (Location: CUR-GABELA)
$9.00 (3 in stock)
Children of the Longhouse
by Joseph Bruchac
Reprint from Puffin Books
for 3rd-6th grade
in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
$6.79
Education of Little Tree
by Forrest Carter
from University of New Mexico Press
for 5th-8th grade
in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA)
$2.40 (2 in stock)
Exiled to the Red River
Trailblazer Books
by Dave and Neta Jackson
from Bethany House
for 3rd-7th grade
in Trailblazer Books (Location: SER-TRAIL)
Exiled to the Red River
Trailblazer Books
by Dave and Neta Jackson
from Castle Rock Creative
for 3rd-7th grade
in Trailblazer Books (Location: SER-TRAIL)
$9.99
Fear in the Forest
by Cateau de Leeuw
from Bethlehem Books
for 4th-8th grade
in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
$12.71
Flight of the Nez Perce
Highlights from American History
by Bill Schneider
Revised from Falcon Press Publishing
for 4th-6th grade
in Native American History (Location: HISA-19NAT)
$3.00 (1 in stock)
Growing Up Dakota
by Charles Alexander Eastman, Edited and Illustrated by Charlene Notgrass
from Notgrass Company
for 5th-8th grade
in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
$5.91
Guests
by Michael Dorris
from Hyperion/Madison Press
for 3rd-6th grade
in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
$2.79 (1 in stock)
Hawk, I'm Your Brother
by Byrd Baylor, illustrated by Peter Parnall
Reprint from Aladdin Paperbacks
for 3rd-5th grade
1977 Caldecott Honor Book
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$3.20 (1 in stock)
Hiawatha
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1st edition from Puffin Books
Poetry for 4th-8th
in Oversized Picture Books (Location: PIC-OVER)
$7.64
If You Lived with the Indians of the Northwest Coast
by Anne Kamma
from Scholastic Inc.
for 4th-6th grade
in Native American History (Location: HISA-19NAT)
If You Lived With the Iroquois
by Ellen Levine
from Scholastic Inc.
for 1st-5th grade
in Native American History (Location: HISA-19NAT)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
If You Lived With the Sioux Indians
If You Were There
by Ann McGovern
from Scholastic Inc.
for 2nd-5th grade
in Native American History (Location: HISA-19NAT)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Indian Chiefs
by Russell Freedman
from Scholastic Inc.
for 5th-10th grade
in Native American History (Location: HISA-19NAT)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Indian How Book
by Arthur C. Parker
Unknown from Dover Publications
for 4th-9th grade
in Native American History (Location: HISA-19NAT)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Indians
Tales of the Wild West Volume 3
by Rick Steber
from Bonanza Publishing
for 4th-7th grade
in Native American History (Location: HISA-19NAT)
$2.50 (1 in stock)
Kaya and Lone Dog
American Girl: Kaya #4
by Janet Shaw
from American Girl
for 2nd-5th grade
in American Girl (Location: SER-AMGIRL)
$3.50 (1 in stock)
Kaya's Hero
American Girl
by Janet Shaw
from American Girl
for 2nd-5th grade
in American Girl (Location: SER-AMGIRL)
$3.50 (1 in stock)
Koom of the Tillamooks
by Margaret Watt Edwards
First Edition; Second Printing from Binford & Mort Publishing
for 4th-6th grade
in Pacific States (Location: HISV-PNW)
Make it Work! North American Indians
Make It Work!
by Andrew Haslam & Alexandra Parsons
from Scholastic Inc.
for 3rd-6th grade
in Native American History (Location: HISA-19NAT)
Mary and the Trail of Tears
from Stone Arch Books
for 3rd-6th grade
in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
$6.76
Meet Kaya
American Girl
by Janet Shaw
1st edition from American Girl
for 2nd-5th grade
in American Girl (Location: SER-AMGIRL)
$3.50 (1 in stock)
Meeting Natives with Lewis and Clark
by Barbara Fifer
from Farcountry Press
for 3rd-6th grade
in Lewis & Clark Expedition (1801-1803) (Location: HISA-19L&C)
$6.50 (1 in stock)
Moccasin Trail
by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
from Scholastic Inc.
for 4th-8th grade
in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA)
$1.20 (1 in stock)
More Than Moccasins
by Laurie Carlson
from Chicago Review Press
for Kindergarten-6th grade
in Native American History (Location: HISA-19NAT)
$8.00 (2 in stock)
Naya Nuki
by Kenneth Thomasma
from Baker Books
Historical Fiction for 4th-6th grade
in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
Night of the Full Moon
Stepping Stones: A Chapter Book
by Gloria Whelan
from Random House Books for Young Readers
for 4th-6th grade
in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
$5.09
Ojibway Indians - Coloring Book
by Chet Kozlak
from Minnesota Historical Society Press
for 3rd-9th grade
in Native American Coloring Books (Location: COL-NAM)
$1.60 (1 in stock)
Om-kas-toe
by Kenneth Thomasma
from Grandview Publishing Company
Historical Fiction for 4th-6th grade
in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
$2.40 (1 in stock)
Only the Names Remain
by Alex W. Bealer
from Little, Brown & Company
for 4th-6th grade
in Native American History (Location: HISA-19NAT)
$8.99 $4.50 (1 in stock)
Path to the Pacific
Sterling Point Books
by Neta Lohnes Frazier
from Sterling Publishing Co.
for 5th-9th grade
in Lewis & Clark Expedition (1801-1803) (Location: HISA-19L&C)
Path to the Pacific
by Neta Lohnes Frazier
from Quarto Knows
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
Pocahontas
by Edgar & Ingri D'Aulaire
from Beautiful Feet Books
Picture Book Biography for 3rd-6th grade
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
$15.26 $9.60 (2 in stock)
Pocahontas
by Joseph Bruchac
from Harcourt
for 4th-7th grade
in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
$8.49
Powwow
by George Ancona
from HMH Books for Young Readers
for 2nd-5th grade
in Native American History (Location: HISA-19NAT)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Sacajawea
by Joseph Bruchac
from Graphia
Biography for 3rd-7th grade
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
$9.34
Sacajawea
by Brad Phillips
from Apricot Press
for 4th-9th grade
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
Scholastic Encyclopedia of the North American Indian
by James Ciment & Ronald Lafrance
from Scholastic Inc.
for 4th-6th grade
in Native American History (Location: HISA-19NAT)
$6.00 (2 in stock)
Seneca Chief, Army General
Creative Minds Biographies
by Elizabeth Van Steenwyk, illustrated by Karen Ritz
from Carolrhoda Books, Inc.
for 4th-6th grade
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
$4.50 (1 in stock)
Squanto, Friend of the Pilgrims
by Clyde Robert Bulla
from Purple House Press
for 3rd-5th grade
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
Tecumseh
by Jane Fleischer
from Troll Associates
for 2nd-5th grade
in Clearance: History & Geography (Location: ZCLE-HIS)
Tecumseh
by Russell Shorto
from Silver Burdett Press
for 4th-7th grade
in Clearance: Biographies (Location: ZCLE-BIO)
Tecumseh
by Dwight Jon Zimmerman
from Sterling Publishing Co.
for 3rd-8th grade
in Biographies (Location: BIO)
$3.60 (1 in stock)
The Iroquois
American Indian Nations
by Mary Englar
from Capstone Press
for 5th-7th grade
in Native American History (Location: HISA-19NAT)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back
by Joseph Bruchac
Reprint from Puffin Books
for 3rd-5th grade
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
Tikta'Liktak
by James Houston
from Harcourt
for 3rd-6th grade
in Action & Adventure Stories (Location: FIC-ADV)
$4.80 (2 in stock)
Trouble's Daughter
by Katherine Kirkpatrick
from Yearling
for 3rd-6th grade
in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
Unit About Woodland Indians
by Elaine Hansen Cleary
from Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
for 3rd-6th grade
in Native American History (Location: HISA-19NAT)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Vostaas
by William White Buffalo
from Sonlight Curriculum, Ltd.
for 4th-6th grade
in Native American History (Location: HISA-19NAT)
$5.00 (3 in stock)
Walk the World's Rim
by Betty Baker
from Sonlight Curriculum, Ltd.
Historical fiction for 5th-9th grade
in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
$5.60 (3 in stock)
Warrior's Challenge
TrailBlazer Books
by Dave and Neta Jackson
from Bethany House
for 3rd-7th grade
in Trailblazer Books (Location: SER-TRAIL)
Warrior's Challenge
TrailBlazer Books
by Dave and Neta Jackson
from Castle Rock Creative
for 3rd-7th grade
in Trailblazer Books (Location: SER-TRAIL)
$9.99
Waterless Mountain
by Laura Adams Armer
from Dover Publications
for 4th-8th grade
1932 Newbery Medal winner
in Realistic Fiction (Location: FIC-REA)
$5.09 $3.20 (1 in stock)
What Do We Know About the Plains Indians?
What Do We Know About...?
by Dr. Colin Taylor
from Peter Bedrick Books
for 3rd-6th grade
in Native American History (Location: HISA-19NAT)
$2.00 (1 in stock)
Where the Broken Heart Still Beats
by Carolyn Meyer
from Graphia
for 5th-8th grade
in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
$8.49
Who Was Sacagawea?
Who Was?...Series
by Judith Bloom Fradin, Dennis Brindell Fradin
from Grosset & Dunlap
Biography for 3rd-6th grade
in Who Was? biographies (Location: BIO-WHO)
Who Were the First North Americans?
by Philippa Wingate, Struan Reid
from Usborne
for 3rd-6th grade
in Native American History (Location: HISA-19NAT)
$2.50 (2 in stock)
Written in Stone
by Rosanne Parry
from Yearling
for 3rd-6th grade
in Historical Fiction (Location: FIC-HIF)
$2.80 (1 in stock)
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