Blackbirch Press/Gale.Blackbirch Press/Gale PO Box 9081, Farmington Hills Far·ming·ton Hills A city of southeast Michigan, an industrial suburb of Detroit. Population: 81,400. MI 48333 www.gale.com/blackbirch Two new additions to the 'Tribes of Native America' series collaboratively compiled and co-edited by Marla Felkins Ruan & Linda Schmittroth for grades 2-4 provide 32 pages each of colorful photos and introductory information on Native American tribes, with each book offering a particular tribe tribe [Lat., tribus: the tripartite division of Romans into Latins, Sabines, and Etruscans], a social group bound by common ancestry and ties of consanguinity and affinity; a common language and territory; and characterized by a political and economic focus. Abenaki (1567115748, $22.45) surveys the tribe which lived in Maine and Canada in the east, and in Vermont, New Hampshire New Hampshire, one of the New England states of the NE United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts (S), Vermont, with the Connecticut R. forming the boundary (W), the Canadian province of Quebec (NW), and Maine and a short strip of the Atlantic Ocean (E). and Massachusetts in the west. Maps, population graphs and more illustrate 'past' and 'present' trends. Pima (156711699X, $22.45) covers the Pima, who lived in parts of the Sonoran Desert Sonoran Desert Arid region, western North America. Covering 120,000 sq mi (310,000 sq km), the Sonoran Desert is located in southwestern Arizona and southeastern California, U.S., and northern Baja California and western Sonora state, Mex. . From history to daily life, all aspects of culture, customs and identity are revealed with emphasis on modern experiences. It is this emphasis which sets the series apart from competitors. |
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