When the Great Canoes Came Contributor(s): Clifford, Mary Louise (Author), Haynes, Joyce (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 1565546466 ISBN-13: 9781565546462 Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company OUR PRICE: $14.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1993 Annotation: Lost Owl is at the age that his Pamunkey ancestors had their huskenaw-- when the young Indian boys would go into the forest with the priests for months to be tested for courage and endurance, to learn the laws of their people, and to return as men. Now, years after the English settlement of Jamestown, Lost Owl and his friends have only the wise lore of the Indian queen, Cockacoeske, to teach them of their heritage. Her stories describe the days before and after the arrival of the European settlers, detailing the history of the Indian tribes of Virginia from a native point of view beginning with "When the Great Canoes Came". |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places - United States - Native American - Juvenile Fiction | Historical - United States - Colonial & Revolutionary Periods |
Dewey: FIC |
LCCN: 92027913 |
Physical Information: 0.41" H x 6.04" W x 9.01" (0.54 lbs) 144 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Cultural Region - South - Ethnic Orientation - Native American - Geographic Orientation - Virginia |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The heritage of the North American Indian tribes has always been passed down through storytelling as well as rituals of The storyteller is Cockacoeske, the seventeenth leader of the Pamunkey Indians. A successor of the famed chief Powhatan, she was a strong force in maintaining peace between the natives of North America and the incoming |
Contributor Bio(s): Haynes, Joyce: - Joyce Haynes, a resident of Pineville, Missouri, has won numerous local, state, and national awards for her illustrations.Clifford, Mary Louise: - Author Mary Louise Clifford holds a master's degree in education from Virginia's oldest university, the College of William and Mary. During the course of her graduate work, she followed up on a professor's challenge to explain the English intrusion on the Indians to young readers. The result of her research is When the Great Canoes Came, a retelling of American history that is sure to raise cultural awareness. |