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Go west : first contact with Native nations / Cynthia O'Brien.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Go West! Travel to the wild frontierPublisher: Ontario ; New York : Crabtree Publishing, [2016]Description: 32 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780778723318
  • 0778723313
  • 9780778723486
  • 0778723488
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
A century of change -- Ways of life -- Where in the West? -- Native peoples' ways of life -- First contact -- The government takes action -- The settlers arrive -- New neighbors -- The loss of the buffalo -- The coming of the railroad -- At war -- A changed land -- A legacy of settlement -- Glossary & timeline.
Summary: Discover how the mass invasion of settlers impacted the indigenous peoples of the West.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's NonFiction 978.0049 O13 Available 33111008723716
Total holds: 0

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As settlers came west, they discovered there were already people living on this new land. Discover how this mass invasion of settlers impacted the indigenous peoples of the West, from first contact with explorers such as Lewis and Clark to the gradual encroachment of white settlers on their traditional lands and the enforced removal of native peoples to the West.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A century of change -- Ways of life -- Where in the West? -- Native peoples' ways of life -- First contact -- The government takes action -- The settlers arrive -- New neighbors -- The loss of the buffalo -- The coming of the railroad -- At war -- A changed land -- A legacy of settlement -- Glossary & timeline.

Guided reading: T.

Discover how the mass invasion of settlers impacted the indigenous peoples of the West.

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