Books

=**Books**=

Rabren Learning Center Wrights Mill Road Elementary School 807 Wrights Mill Road Auburn, AL 36830 Telephone: (334) 887-1990 Website: [] Hours of operation: Monday - Friday 7:15 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

The Rabren Learning Center has many excellent books about Indians. A few of the books are listed below. To locate more, browse the 970's in the nonfiction section or use the following subject headings to search the library's online catalog.
 * Native Americans
 * Cherokee Indians
 * Cherokee Language
 * Sequoyah
 * Chickasaw Indians
 * Choctaw Indians
 * Creek Indians

__**General Southeast Indians**__ Presents fifty-seven stories from Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek, and Seminole mythology, in such categories as creation and migration of tribes, the origin of tobacco, fire, and other gifts of the Great Spirit, and monsters and heroes.
 * 398.2 BRO** Brown, Virginia Pounds and Owens, Laurella. **Southern Indian Myths and Legends**. c1985.


 * 917.61 REA** Read, William A. **Indian Place Names in Alabama**. c1984.


 * 970.4 BUR** Burt, Jesse Clifton. **Indians of the Southeast**. c1973.

Provides an introduction to Native American tribes of the Southeast, including their social structure, homes, clothing, food, and traditions.
 * 975.004 SLU** Slusher-Haas, Kathy Jo. **The Southeast Indians: Daily Life in the 1500s**. c2006.

__**Cherokee**__ Contains the biography of Sequoyah, a member of the Cherokee nation who was born in the 1760s in eastern Tennessee and who developed the first written alphabet and language for the Cherokee people. Presented in English and Cherokee.
 * B SEQ** Rumford, James. **Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing**. c2004.

The biography of Sequoyah, the Cherokee Indian who invented a method for his people to write and read their own language.
 * B SEQ** Shaughnessy, Diane. **Sequoyah: Inventor of the Cherokee Written Language**. c1997.

Discusses the Cherokee Indians, focusing on their tradition of weaving baskets. Includes a cookie recipe and instructions for playing a game and making a mat.
 * 746.41 DEA** DeAngelis, Therese. **The Cherokee: Native Basket Weavers**. c2003.

Provides an overview of the past and present lives of the Cherokee people, covering their daily life, customs, relations with the government and others, and more.
 * 970.004 LUN** Lund, Bill. **The Cherokee Indians**. c1997.

Tells the history of the Cherokee Indians and the struggle to keep their land.
 * 970.004 PRE** Press, Petra. **The Cherokee**. c2002.

Examines the history, art, language, culture, and future prospects of the Cherokee Indians, as well as distinguished members of the tribe.
 * 975 BIR** Birchfield, D.L. **Cherokee**. c2004.

In the 1800s, a Choctaw girl becomes friends with a slave boy from a plantation across the great river, and when she learns that his family is in trouble, she helps them cross to freedom.
 * __Choctaw__**
 * E TIN** Tingle, Tim. **Crossing Bok Chitto: a Choctaw Tale of Friendship and Freedom**. c2006.

Discusses the Choctaw Indians, focusing on their tradition of playing stickball. Includes a recipe for carrot bread and instructions for playing a game and making a clay pot.
 * 976.004 KOE** Koestler-Grack, Rachel A. **The Choctaw: Stickball Players of the South**. c2004.


 * __Creek__**
 * 975 STO** Stone, Amy. **Creek**. c2005.