Marie Gorsline

I read this picture book aloud to my children. The illustrations are nice and colourful, and the book provides a good overview (without overwhelming young listeners) of various North American Indian tribes. I found the content interesting and age appropriate, and it is a good addition to our studies concerning Native Nations!

I also remember reading this book when I was a child, and I loved it then as much as I do now!

MY RATING: 5 stars! I loved it!! Highly recommended!

Nicely informative with many illustrations, it does mention the cowboys propensity for whiskey and fighting.

This book describes many Native American tribes, describing many different traits of each tribe. Illustrations accompany each page, showing the different attire and houses of each nation. There is also a neat little map in the book that shows which pieces of land used to belong to each tribe.

I thought this book was really neat. I loved all of the pictures and thought that it did a really good job of outlining some of the history of Native Americans.

In the classroom, I would use this book show more when talking about American history. It would be great to go along with a history lesson.
One history lesson would be when the English came to America and took over.
Another History lesson this would be greatly accompany would be when the U.S. government made the Indians move to the Great Plains because they wanted all of their land. show less

This was very great and informative for a number of reasons. The first reason the book is good is because the language was very descriptive. The book outlines what the cowboys did throughout their day and what materials the cowboys had like their boots, bridle, and lasso. The book also described how cowboys caught cattle with great detail as well. Another reason the book is great is because of the illustrations. The drawings are very colorful and depict what everything looked like back then show more in great detail. There are pictures of the items cowboys have, where they live, and what towns looked like during the time. When the book wrote about how cowboys sang songs while sitting around the fire, there was a picture of music paper with a trail song on it. The big idea of this book is to teach about what it was like to be a cowboy hundreds of years ago. show less