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Adams, Patricia. The Story of Pocahontas, Indian Princess. Milwaukee: Gareth Stevens Pub., 1996. A biography of the seventeenth-century Indian princess who befriended Captain John Smith and the English settlers of Jamestown.
Averill, Esther Holden. King Philip, the Indian Chief. Hamden, CT: Linnet Books, 1993. (147 ps) - A sympathetic portrait of King Philip, the Wampanoag sachem that mounted an uprising against the colonial settlers trying to take his people's land.
Cwiklik, Robert. King Philip and the War with the Colonists. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Silver Burdett, 1989. (131 ps) Examines the life and fortunes of the Wampanoag Indian leader who led an uprising against the New England colonists in the seventeenth century.
Doherty, Katherine. The Wampanoag. New York : Franklin Watts, 1995. (63 ps.)
Flanagan, Alice. The Wampanoags. NY: Children's Press, 1998. (47 ps.) Presents the cultural, social, and historical achievements of the Wampanoags.
Fleischman, Paul. Saturnalia. NY: Harper & Row, 1990. (113 ps) In 1681 in Boston, 14-year-old William, a captured Indian, serves as a printer's apprentice but also desires to explore his Indian past.
Fradin, Dennis. King Philip: Indian Leader. Hillside, NJ: Enslow Pub, 1990. (48 ps.) Recounts the story of the Wampanoag Indian leader who led an uprising against the New England colonists in the seventeenth century.
Gleiter, Jan and Thompson, Kathleen. Pocahontas. Milwaukee: Raintree Childrens Books, c1985. A biography of the Powhatan Indian woman who befriended the English settlers at Jamestown, Virginia, and helped maintain peace between her tribe and the colonists.
Holmes, Andy. Pocahontas: The True Story of an American Hero and Her Christian Faith. NY: Little Moorings, 1995. (29 ps.) Fictionalized account of the life of Pocahontas up to the time of her marriage to John Rolfe, emphasizing her interest in and conversion to the Christian faith.
Hooks, William. The Legend of the White Doe. NY: Macmillan Pub., 1988. (44 ps) After the destruction of the English colony on Roanoke Island by hostile Indians forces the survivors to live with a friendly tribe, Virginia Dare finds her first love coming to a tragic and supernatural end.
Jemison, Mary. In My Own Words: The Diary of Mary Jemison, Captured by Indians. NY: Benchmark Books, 2000. (edited by Peter and Connie Roop) The experiences, based on her own account, of Mary Jemison who was captured by a Shawnee war party when she was twelve and subsequently rescued and adopted by the Seneca with whom she chose to remain the rest of her long life.
Koller, Jackie French. The Primrose Way. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. A recent arrival to the New World in 1633, sixteen-year-old Rebekah, a missionary's daughter, befriends a Native American woman and begins to question whether these "savages" need saving after all.
Levitin, Sonia. Roanoke: A Novel of the Lost Colony. NY: Atheneum, 1973. (213 ps.) An English youth and an Indian girl are caught up in the events leading to the mysterious disappearance of the colony at Roanoke Island.
Lund, Bill. The Wampanoag Indians. Mankato, MN: Bridgestone Books, 1998. (24 ps) Provides an overview of the past and present lives of the Wampanoag Indians, covering their daily life, customs, relations with the government and others, and more.
Sewall, Marcia. People of the Breaking Day. NY: Atheneum, 1990. (48 ps.) A poetic evocation of the lifestyle and traditional beliefs of the Wampanoag Indians.
Sewall, Marcia. Thunder From the Clear Sky. New York: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 1995. (48 ps.) In Plimoth, Massachusetts, the Wampanoags interacted.
Siegel, Beatrice. Fur Trappers and Traders: The Indians, the Pilgrims, and the Beaver. NY: Walker, 1981. (64 ps) Describes the early fur trade in the New World and discusses its influence on North American history.
Waters, Kate. Tapenum's Day: A Wampanoag Indian Boy in Pilgrim Times. New York: Scholastic, 1996. (39 pages) Text and photographs of Wampanoag's daily life.
Wilbur, C. Keith. The New England Indians. Chester, Conn.: Globe Pequot Press, 1978. (123 ps.) Examines the culture and history of those Indian tribes that lived in pre-colonial New England.

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