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Thunder Rolling in the Mountains

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Have you ever read a book where people are on the run and it seems like one big chase? This is your book. The main character in this book is an Indian girl whose name is “Sound of Running Feet”. Her tribe and basically her entire family is run out of her homeland by a mean one armed General who is a white man. The General and his army give this Indian Tribe thirty days to get off the land so they can bring people in to dig for gold. The Tribe does move off the land but every night they run into small wars with the Army so they are constantly being hunted and shot down. Sound of Running Feet was supposed to be married and planning for her wedding to “Swan Necklace” her fiancee. He becomes a big warrior fighting every night with the rest of the tribe. They are constantly in battle and it’s interesting how many twists this story takes. It is all set in South Dakota as they move out of the state. How do they find food to live on, and water to drink? The weather plays a nasty role throughout the entire book. If your looking for sunny skies and happy days? Then this is not the book. It grabs you from the beginning and keeps you hooked till the very end. Believe me!! Sound of Running Feet doesn’t end up in Disneyland.

Don't Let Bigotry Rule You

General Howard has run the Nee-Mee-Poo out of their territory but the tribe wants to stay. Howard is taking the tribe to a reservation. The tribe strikes back in battle. They flee to the west when they have got Howard's army on they're heels. But the army isn't giving up. They track and fight the Nee-Mee-Poo many times during the story, when will it ever end?
Find out! I thought this book was outstanding book because of the emotion and how you feel like part of the story. I think this is a good book for anybody who likes to read. This is by far the best book I have ever read, by far!

This book is an excellant one! I recomanded this book for anyone interested in Nez Perce Indians, how the white people affeted them, adventure, etc. While being way too young for the target age, I defianlty enjoyed it and would recommend it for anyone 10 years or older.

"We are few, and they are many. They will devour us," says the chief of the Nee-mee-po tribe, Joseph. The early American Soldiers, called the "Blue Coats" by the Native Americans, were forcing the Nee-mee-po tribe of the Wallawa Valley, to a reservation far away. The tribe tries to make an agreement, but the soldiers won't give in. The Blue Coats begin a battle and the tribe must flee. Sound of Running Feet, the chief's daughter, doesn't want to leave, and neither do many other members of the tribe. The tribe must go to Old Lady's Country, where it is safe. There are many battles along the way and many people die. Most of them are the Nee-mee-po. Finally the tribe must surrender, but Sound of Running Feet and her fiancé, Swan Necklace, escape. Swan necklace is killed on their way to safety and Sound of Running Feet must continue alone.

This book was great! This is definitely one of O'dell's best. Thunder Rolling in the Mountains shows how Native American tribes had to have immense courage. Sound of Running Feet was a great character, as was her father Chief Joseph. This is a great book, and it is one of my favorites.

When I was a 5th and 6th grade teacher, this was one of the few books that I used every year with my reading groups.
If ever a book for young adults was written that tears at one's heart and helps one understand the plight of the Nez Perce (and countless other American Indian tribes), this book is it.
Chief Joseph is one of my heroes. This book was a book that my students couldn't put down. It is beautifully written, full of similie, metaphor, and foreshadowing and is a book about the horrors of genocide written in a way that 5th grade and up students can understand.
It is incredibly informative and age appropriate.
One of my top 10 picks.

This book offers American school children the opportunity to read about the truth of westward expansion, which most elementary textbooks gloss over or ignore altogether.

From the book:

My father sighed deeply. "We never make war on women and children, he said, "But the Blue Coats kill our women and children first. That is a shameful way to fight."

This book is important educationally to children and adults. Scott O'Dell is my favorite children's author, and this book is my favorite of those I have read. Also recommended: Streams to the River, River to the Sea, Island of the Blue Dolphins, and Zia.

The Fight for the Land of Freedom

This story is about a tribe of Indians that are fighting for their land from the Blue coats. Every time they fought each other, one of the Indians tribe would lose anywhere from one to fifteen warriors. The Blue coats take no prisoners. They would kill women and children just out of their own greed. The Indians migrate from place to place. They would stop overnight, then they would leave in the morning. Every time the Indians kill a Blue coat, they would replace him with thousands of other Blue coats. Every time the Blue coats killed an Indian they could not replace him. The Indians would get some help here and there, but most of the other tribes they did not trust.

I think the book was good because it was about people fighting for their land and no matter how big the challenge was they would find a way to over come it. The Indians could have lived because they were offered to move to another land but all they did was go across a river and walk about forty miles. Then they decided to stand and fight as they moved little each day.

This book is an ok book. I did not find it very detailed. I would suggest to read this book if you're o.k. with lots of people dying and being scalped etc...It wasn't the best book I have read. It only lightly touches on the big details and gives a very boring afterward. It is easy to read, though and could be a useful reference to how cruel people have been to the poor Indians. If you want a book filled with excitement, this won't fill the bill.

I think that this book was suspenseful because when a chapter ended it always made you wonder what was going to happen next. I think that kids are age would enjoy reading it because they can relate to everything that is happening in the book, for example people can relate to the lose of a loved one which the girl in the story went through. This book was a page turner because when you finished a chapter and you put the book down you were thinking about what was going to happen next so you just kept reading and reading.

If you are interested in learning about the way the Native Americans were once treated, this may be a good choice for you. Personally, I did not appreciate it all. The violence was extensive. It was just plain horrible. I certainly would not recommend it for young children, or anyone is easily upset by violence. Historically however, it is well done. "My Name Is Not Angelica" was better.