mohave indians

Describes the origins, history, politics, and culture of the Mojave people of the desert southwest, from prehistory to the present.

After twelve-year-old Sumiko and her Japanese-American family are relocated from their flower farm in southern California to an internment camp on a Mojave Indian reservation in Arizona, she helps her family and neighbors, becomes friends with a local Indian boy, and tries to hold on to her dream of owning a flower shop.

Biography of Olive Oatman, who was captured by the Apache Indians in Arizona when most of her family was massacred, discussing her life as a slave with the Apache and Mohave Indians and how she was freed.

After twelve-year-old Sumiko and her Japanese-American family are relocated from their flower farm in southern California to an internment camp on a Mojave Indian reservation in Arizona, she helps her family and neighbors, becomes friends with a local Indian boy, and tries to hold on to her dream of owning a flower shop.