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Sixth Grade History: Books

Resources for 6th grade History Class

Native American Books in MS Library

Black Elk: Native American Man of Spirit by Maura D. Shaw

Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux by Black Elk

Crow Dog: Sioux Family Saga by Leonard Crow Dog

The Sioux by Raymond Bial

The Sioux by Charles George

Sitting Bull: the Life of Lakota Sioux Chief by Gary Jeffrey

Thirteen Moons on the Turtle's Back: A Native American Yar of Moons by Joseph Bruchac

Chippewea Customs by Frances Densmore

Chippewa Customs by Frances Densmore

The Everlasting Sky: Voices of the Anishinabe People by Gerald Robert Vizenor

History of the Ojibway People by William W. Warren

Little Crow, Spokesman for th Sioux by Gary Clayton Anderson

The Manitous: the Spiritual world of the Ojibway by Basil Johnston

Night Flying Woman: an Ojibway narrative by Ignatia Broker

Sister Nations: Native American Women writing about Community

Through Dakota eyes: Narrative Accounts of the Minnesota Indian War of 1862 by Grace Lee Nute

While the Locust Slept: a Memoir by Peter Razor

 

Minnesota History Books in MS Library

American City: A Rank and File History of Minneapolis by Charles Rumford Walker

A Popular History of Minnesota by Norman K. Risjord

Lob Trees in the Wilderness by Clifford Ahlgren and Isabel Ahlgren

Creating Minnesota by Annette Atkins

Barefoot on Crane Island by Marjorie Douglas

Boomtown Landmarks 

Chippewa Customs by Frances Densmore

Falling through clouds: a story of survival, love, and liability by Damian Fowler

The Haymakers: a Chronicle of five farm families by Steven Hoffbeck

Heart and Hard Work by Genny Zak Kieley

History of the Ojibway People by William W. Warren

John Dillinger Slept Here: a Crooks' Tour of Crime and Corruption in St. Paul by Paul Maccabee

The Last Full Measure: The Life and Death of the First Minnesota Volunteers by Richard Moe

Living our Language: Ojibwe tales and oral histories

Lost Twin Cities by Larry Millett

The Mayo Brothers' Heritage: Quotes & Pictures by Thomas Habermann

Mill City: a Visual History of the Minneapolis Mill District 

Minneapolis: and the age of railways by Donovan Hofsommer

Minnesota by A.P. Porter

The Minnesota Book of Days: An Almanac of State History by Anthony Greiner

Minnesota Days: our Heritage in Stories, art, and photos

Minnesota in the Civil War: an Illustrated History by Kenneth Carley

Minnesota Place Names: a Geographical Encyclopedia by Warren Upham

Minnesota's Natural Heritage: an Ecological Perswective by John Tester

Minnesota's Twentieth Century: Stories of Extraordinary Everyday People by D.J. Tice

Mississippi River: a Journey Down the Father of Waters by Peter Lourie

Night Flying Woman by Ignatia Broker

Packinghouse daughter: a memoir by Cheri Register

The Pockedt Guide to Minnesota Place Names: The Stories Behind 1,200 places in the North Star State by Michael Fedo

The Story of Cole Younger by himself: Being an autobiography of the Missouri guerrilla captain and outlaw, his capture and prison life, and the only authentic account of the northfield raid ever published by Cole Younger

The story of Minnesota's past by Rhoda Gilman

They chose Minnesota: a survey of the state's ethnic groups 

Voices from Colonial America by Richar Worth

The Voyageur's highway: Minnesota's border lake land by Grace Lee Nute

Other Print Resources

The Sioux Uprising of 1862 by Kenneth Carley

The Civil War in the American West by Alvin M. Josephy

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