Pub Date: January 3, 2012
Dewey: 970.004043
LCCN: 2012372174
Lexile Code: 1130
Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product, Table of Contents
Target Age Group: 12 to UP
Physical Info: 0.74" H x 8.20" L x 5.54" W ( 0.54 lbs) 272 pages
BISAC Categories:
Juvenile Nonfiction | Native American | African American and Black | General | History | United States General
Description: Katz explores the little-told story of black Indians--people with dual African and Native American ancestry or African Americans who lived primarily with Native Americans. Using fascinating biographies and detailed research, he creates a chronology of this hidden heritage during the settlement of the American West. Illustrations.
Brief description: William Loren Katz is the author of forty books, including such award-winning titles as Breaking the Chains: African American Slave Resistance, The Black West, and Black Women of the Old West. He has lectured in Europe, Africa, and the United States; he has been a Scholar in Residence at Teachers College, Columbia University; and he has served as a consultant to the Smithsonian Institute and to school systems from California to Florida and England. He lives in New York City. Visit him at WilliamLKatz.com.