Fleming Community Library

"James Fenimore Cooper's romantic adventure brings the wilds of the American frontier and the drama of the French-Indian War vividly to life. The most popular of Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales, The Last of the Mohicans portrays the inevitable conflict of opposed cultures and stands as a testament to the ways in which this struggle has been mythologized. Featuring the well-loved noble woodsman Natty Bumppo, or "Hawk-eye," Cooper's novel is a memorable...

Brown Dog is a Michigan Indian down on his luck. This collection gathers all the Brown Dog novellas together in one collection.

In the wake of his wife's passing, a man recalls their years spent together.

We Shall Remain establishes Native history as an essential part of American history. These five documentaries spanning three hundred years tell the story of pivotal moments in U.S. history from the Native American perspective, upending two-dimensional stereotypes of American Indians as simply ferocious warriors or peaceable lovers of the land.

Pocahontas was only eleven years old when, on her kneesm she begged her father, Chief Powhatan, to spare the life of the captured Englishman John Smith. According to trival custom, this act made her "brother", a kinship she never forgot. But relations between the Indians and the white settlers at the Jamestown colony were ever-changing. For ten more years, Pocahontas would be caught up in the tensions separating the two cultures. And before there...

This comparative history of the Southern Ute and Mountain Ute peoples demonstrates how two culturally and historically related tribes, living side by side in southwestern Colorado, have taken very different paths in the modern era. Historian Richard K. Young makes a unique contribution to twentieth-century American Indian studies in his exploration of Colorado's two remaining tribes' divergent responses to federal Indian policies and changing economic...

Sad Girl hated her name, and changed it secretly to Rose Smith at school.

Swift Eagle's Odyssey with the Buffalo is a sensitive story about a young Indian boy and a huge buffalo that saved the boy from a near drowning in a storm-swollen river and from some hungry wolves. The boy's parents sought help from the Great Spirit to save their boy from harm. Was it by chance that the buffalo was at the right place at the right time, or did the Great Spirit intervene to help the boy? While with the buffalo, Swift Eagle takes a sleep-induced...

Swift Eagle's Vision Quest is a warm and exciting story about a young Cheyenne Indian boy's adventures along the Arkansas River, at the edge of the Great Plains. His saving a wolf cub from starvation and nursing him back to health from injuries results in a strong friendship. He and his friend Little Flower enjoy riding their ponies in the river. Something goes wrong while with the buffalo hunters, and they find themselves all alone on the prairie...

The story of Ware, a young prospector, and Elaine, a young Indian girl. It's also a story woven amid desert stampedes and the vicious struggle for the precious gold that could make a grizzled prospector an overnight millionaire - and flat broke the next day.