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| Title | : | When The Legends Die |
| Author | : | Hal Borland |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 304 pages |
| Published | : | July 1st 1984 by Laurel Leaf (first published 1963) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Classics. Young Adult |
Hal Borland
Paperback | Pages: 304 pages Rating: 3.64 | 1862 Users | 219 Reviews
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When his father killed another brave, Thomas Black Bull and his parents sought refuge in the wilderness. There they took up life as it had been in the old days, hunting and fishing, battling for survival. But an accident claimed the father's life and the grieving mother died shortly afterward. Left alone, the young Indian boy vowed never to retum to the white man's world, to the alien laws that had condemned his father.
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| Original Title: | When The Legends Die |
| ISBN: | 0553257382 (ISBN13: 9780553257380) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Rating Containing Books When The Legends Die
Ratings: 3.64 From 1862 Users | 219 ReviewsComment On Containing Books When The Legends Die
One of my all time favorite books! I wore this one out when I was younger.This book is my favorite book of all time. I've read a lot of books. This book has stayed with me all throughout my life. I built up a huge library of books and then decided to live a simpler life and got rid of all of them, except this book, Spider, the Terrible Cat, and A Clockwork Orange.I read this book for the first time when I was twelve. The first part of the book held a resonance for me that I find it hard to explain. I am not an American Indian. I am not a boy. There were ten children
This was a really interesting book and a great way to understand the struggles faced by Native Americans as they are forced to change their ways of living. Also, the author definitely did a good job in describing the nature of the American southwest where most of the book took place.
Unfortunately for this book, my memory of reading it is too tightly intertwined with the vivid memory of the terrible English teacher who assigned it.
Ive been trying to remember what grade it was we read this book, fifth, sixth? Growing up in Gallup, I had misremembered reading it in an earlier grade- but it is much too adult a book for that. My 4th through 9th grades were spent in Albuquerque- Gov. Bent Elementary and Cleveland Middle School- it was somewhere in there. At any rate Id only remembered it a few weeks ago for some reason and after a long Google search I found it. Its the story of a Ute boy growing up in rough times- learning the
A novel that explores the life of a Native American boy who is raised in the old ways as his family teaches him to be self-sufficient and respect the legends and teachings of the elders. After losing his parents, he is subjected to the modern world through forced education, bias against his race, child employment, among other things. A word on the "education" and "employment". The education is basically arts and crafts, with the military decided what the unteachable Indians were capable of
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