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Author
Publisher
Chelsea Juniors
Pub. Date
©1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The Huron Indians, also known as the Wendats, flourished for centuries in what is now Ontario, Canada. They were skilled farmers and traders, generous and polite with friends but fierce and warlike with their enemies. A highly spiritual people, the Hurons paid close attention to dreams, which were thought to bear messages from spirits. Dreams told the Hurons how and when to hold their celebrations, how to cure the sick, and even foretold the future....
2) The Huron
Author
Series
Publisher
Benchmark Books
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Discusses the history, culture, social structure, beliefs, and customs of the Huron people, also known as the Wyandot.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Deutsch
Description
An adaptation of The deerslayer, by James Fenimore Cooper. French colonists and Hurons fight against English troops and their allies, the Delaware. Only Chingachgook, a young Delaware, and his fair-skinned friend Deerslayer realize that the colonizers intend to exterminate the Native Americans altogether. Wahtawah, the daughter of the Delawarean chief, was promised to Chingachgook, who has been accepted into the tribe. Before the nuptials take place,...
5) The orenda
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"History reveals itself when, in the seventeenth century, a Jesuit missionary ventures into the Canadian wilderness in search of converts-the defining moment of first contact between radically different worlds. What unfolds over the next several years istruly epic, constantly illuminating and surprising, sometimes comic, always entrancing and ultimately all too human in its tragic grandeur. Christophe has been in the New World only a year when his...
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