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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 34
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The Great Sun Chief endangers the entire Anasazi empire when he sets out to kill Cornsilk, the child his wife secretly bore to another man fifteen years earlier, forcing the girl to flee her attackers, along with her friend Poor Singer, and struggle to survive while she seeks to discover her true identity.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 16
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"The Navajo called them the Anasazi: an enigmatic race of southwestern cliff dwellers. For centuries, the sudden disappearance of this proud and noble people has baffled historians. Summoned to a dark desert plateau by a desperate letter form an old friend, renowned investigator Mike Raglan is drawn into a world of mystery, violence, and explosive revelations. Crossing the border beyond the laws of man and nature, he will learn the astonishing legacy...
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Howard Moon Deer mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
c2001
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In San Geronimo, New Mexico, private detective Howard Moon Deer and former police chief Jack Wilder join forces to investigate the murder of a noted archaeologist, a crime that unearths the ancient secrets of the Anasazi and threatens to ignite a heated war between local Native Americans and the academics excavating on their land.
6) Wild Sorrow
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Tracking a wounded mountain lion, Jamaica comes across an old Indian School, where children were 'Americanized' after being taken from their homes. As a snowstorm sweeps the canyon, Jamaica must take refuge in the abandoned school.Exploring, Jamaica discovers the desecrated body of an elderly Anglo woman, frozen on the floor. This discovery, combined with the troubled history of the abandoned school, haunts Jamaica throughout the night with the howling...
7) The visitant
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Anasazi mysteries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 21
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At its pinnacle in A.D. 1150, the Anasazi empire was vast and sophisticated, unequaled until the arrival of the Europeans--and then they simply disappeared.Dr. Maureen Cole, one of the world's foremost physical anthropologists, is called in to examine and evaluate a mass grave discovered in New Mexico. The burial site contains nothing but the shattered skulls of women and children. As Dr. Cole works to unravel the mystery of these deaths, strange...
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2020
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"Hounded by false accusations of murder, archaeologist Chuck Bender and his family risk their lives to track down an unknown killer on the loose in a rugged canyon on the remote western edge of Mesa Verde National Park, where ancient stone villages and secret burial sites, abandoned centuries ago by the Ancestral Puebloan people, harbor artifacts so rare and precious they're worth killing over"--Provided by publisher.
9) Ill Wind
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Anna Pigeon mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
1995
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It is whispered that the Old Ones still haunt Mesa Verde-the restless spirits of the Anasazi, who carved their homes in the mountain's face eight centuries ago ... and then disappeared from the Earth. Newly assigned national parks ranger Anna Pigeon seeks solace from her own personal demons in the ancient cave dwellings of a vanished Native American civilization. But an inexplicable illness affecting visitors to the popular Colorado landmark has dragged...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
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This is one of the finest books ever written about the American Indian. A novel of a Pueblo Indian caught between the ritual ways of his tribe and the alien 20th century world of the white man. This book tells the story of a man who lives as a stranger in both worlds.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Discusses the native Americans known as the Anasazi, who migrated to southwestern Colorado in the first century A.D. and mysteriously disappeared in 1300 A.D. after constructing extensive dwellings in the cliffs of the steep canyon walls.
16) Wild Indigo
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The high desert of New Mexico becomes the backdrop of ancient rituals, restless spirits, a desperate female Fed, and a crime that could destroy an entire culture. BLM Agent Jamica WIld witnesses a Tanoah Pueblo man being trampled to death by stampeding buffalo. The tribe declares the incident a suicide, the FBI concurs, and the body is hurried to ceremony before the sun can go down on the man's spirit. But Agent Wild suspects foul play.
17) The Pueblo
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 1
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A history of the Indian groups known collectively as Pueblos because of the sculpture-like villages in which they lived at the time the Spaniards arrived in North America.
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©1992
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Pueblo Nations is the story of a vital and creative culture, of a people sustained by ages-old traditions and beliefs, who have adapted to the radical challenges of the modern world. This rare insider's view of the history of the nineteen Indian Pueblos of New Mexico illuminates Pueblo historical traditions dating from millennia before the arrival of Columbus and chronicles the events and changes of the European era from the perspective of those who...
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