Counting Coup: Becoming a Crow Chief on the Reservation and Beyond
by Joseph Medicine Crow and Herman Viola
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- Grade
- 5-12
- Genre
- Biography
- Nonfiction
- Cultural Experience
- American Indian
Year Published 2006
Word Count 21,166
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 950L
- ATOS Reading Level: 5.9
- AR Quiz Numbers
- Quiz 105477, 3 AR Points
- Curricular Area
- History
- Social Studies
- Lists With This Book
- I is Not for Indian
- Ancestral Voices: American Indian
- Books From All 50 States - Montana
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