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"Explains Iroquois history and highlights Iroquois life in modern society"-- Provided by publisher.

A long-tailed rabbit who wants a nibble of the highest, tastiest leaves uses his special snow song in the summertime, despite the protests of the other animals.

Young Native-American boy Jake is a strong lacrosse player on the reservation, but when he and his mother move to Washington D.C., lacrosse players at his new school do not understand the Iroquois.

"The Haudenosaunee peoples, sometimes called the Iroquois, share language, culture, and history that connects them in many ways in both the United States and Canada. In this introduction to the People of the Longhouse, readers will learn about the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora peoples, lands, history, and accomplishments. Written by Indigenous author and public historian, Heather Bruegl, a citizen of the Oneida Nation and...

High above the ground, generation after generation, Native workers called skywalkers have sculpted city skylines, balancing on narrow beams, facing down terrifying heights and heartbreaking loss. These skywalkers who dared to touch the heavens have built a legacy of landmarks all over the North American continent--and even today, there are Native Americans still climbing up among the clouds, brave enough to walk the sky. Patricia Morris Buckley (Mohawk)...

In 1535, thirteen-year-old Samuel de la Loire, from a wealthy and aristocratic family in St. Malo, France, yearns for adventure. He stows away on one of Jacques Cartier's ships, which is returning to the New World in search of gold and the mythical Kingdom of Saguenay. What he finds instead is a struggle for survival--especially after he is left behind when the ships sail back to France.

John Cloud, a Mohawk boy, lives in upstate New York, but he goes to visit his father who is working on the Empire State Building.

Verses from Longfellow's epic poem depict the boyhood of Hiawatha.

Describes how the creation of the world was begun by a woman who fell down to earth from the sky country, and how it was finished by her two sons Sapling and Flint.