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Native American History in Fiction

  • Period: 1 CE to 1492

    Pre-Columbian

    Before European colonizers came.
  • Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
    100

    Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner

    Inuit life Northern Canada
  • Avalon by Anya Seton
    985

    Avalon by Anya Seton

    Anglo Saxons, Vikings and Norsemen who discovered America
  • God's Daughter
    985

    God's Daughter

    Erik the Red's and his daughter in law Gudrid Thorbjarnardottir the first woman to have a child in the new world.
  • The Sea Road by Margaret Elphinstone
    985

    The Sea Road by Margaret Elphinstone

    Erik the Red's and his daughter in law Gudrid Thorbjarnardottir the first woman to have a child in the new world.
  • Meadowland: A Novel of the Viking Discovery of America by Thomas Holt
    1037

    Meadowland: A Novel of the Viking Discovery of America by Thomas Holt

    Viking discovery of America
  • 1492 Conquest of Paradise
    1492

    1492 Conquest of Paradise

    Columbus arrives in America
  • Period: 1492 to

    Colonial Era

    Europeans actively colonizing America
  • The Greenlanders by Jane Smiley
    1500

    The Greenlanders by Jane Smiley

    Erik the Red's colony in Greenland and its decline.
  • Apocalypto
    1511

    Apocalypto

    Veracruz, Los Tuxtla Mayan civilization
  • The New World

    The New World

    British expedition to Virginia in 1607, Captain John Smith, Pocohantas,
  • Tidewater - by Libbie Hawker

    Tidewater - by Libbie Hawker

    Pocahontas (Matoaka, Amonute) and Jamestown Colony
  • Squanto's Journey: The Story of the First Thanksgiving by Joseph Bruchac

    Squanto's Journey: The Story of the First Thanksgiving by Joseph Bruchac

    Thanksgiving, Pilgrims and The Mayflower from Squanto's point of view.
  • Black Robe

    Black Robe

    Quebec and Ottowa Canada. Jesuit priest, Algonquin, and Iroquois.
  • Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks

    Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks

    A young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College
  • The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

    The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper

    French and Indian war Movie and Book
  • I am Sacagawea by Brad Meltzer

    I am Sacagawea by Brad Meltzer

    Louis and Clark Expedition, Sacagawea
  • Talking Leaves By Joseph Bruchac

    Talking Leaves By Joseph Bruchac

    Story of Sequoyah, a Cherokee who created the writing system for their language
  • Thirteen Moons

    Thirteen Moons

    The Removal of the Cherokee from their eastern homeland
  • Soft Rain: A Story of the Cherokee Trail of Tears by Cornelia Cornellison

    Soft Rain: A Story of the Cherokee Trail of Tears by Cornelia Cornellison

    The Cherokee were forced to move from the southern Appalacian mountains to eh Rockies 800 miles by foot.
  • Dances with Wolves

    Dances with Wolves

    South Dakota, Pawnee and Sioux
  • One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus

    One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus

    White women sent as wives to marry Cheyenne Indians in Minnesota.
  • Daughter of Suqua by Diane Johnston Hamm

    Daughter of Suqua by Diane Johnston Hamm

    Natives from an island off the coast of Washington are relocated and the kids sent to American schools.
  • Legend of Sarila

    Legend of Sarila

    Inuit People of Northern Canada
  • Period: to

    World War I

  • Period: to

    World War II

  • Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two by Joseph Bruchac

    Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two by Joseph Bruchac

    Navaho code talkers during WWII
  • Windtalkers

    Windtalkers

    Navaho code talkers during WWII
  • Period: to

    Vietnam War