Before Columbus: The Americas of 1491 HC Lexile: 750L

Lexile: 750L

Kauna Kuokkanen

making this community’s efforts a model and inspiration for other Indigenous groups

Currents issues facing Native Americans in Minnesota are explored as well as efforts to maintain and preserve tribal sovereignty

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Before Columbus: The Americas of 1491 HC Lexile: 750LBefore Columbus: The Americas of 1491 is the companion book for young readers by the author of 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus, Charles Mann. This 117 page book covers the history of the Americas and the Indigenous Peoples prior to the arrival of Columbus and extends to the period of the Pilgrims and Tisquantum (Squanto). Through numerous archival images and paintings created by Europeans the author attempts to answer the long