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1) Waterlily
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Language
English
Description
"Exquisite evocation, in novelistic form, of the life of a female Dakota (Sioux) in the mid-nineteenth century, before whites settled the plains. . . . An unself-conscious and never precious or quaint pairing of scholarship and fiction."
—Kirkus
When Blue Bird and her grandmother leave their family's camp to gather beans for the long, threatening winter, they inadvertently avoid the horrible fate that befalls the rest of the
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Publisher
New World Library
Language
English
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Description
1996 Minnesota Book Award winner — A Native American book
The heart of the Native American experience: In this 1996 Minnesota Book Award winner, Kent Nerburn draws the reader deep into the world of an Indian elder known only as Dan. It's a world of Indian towns, white roadside cafes, and abandoned roads that swirl with the memories of the Ghost Dance and Sitting Bull. Readers meet vivid characters like Jumbo,
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Rosalie Iron Wing has grown up in the woods with her father, Ray, a former science teacher who tells her stories of plants, of the stars, of the origins of the Dakota people. Until, one morning, Ray doesn't return from checking his traps. Told she has no family, Rosalie is sent to live with a foster family in nearby Mankato - where the reserved, bookish teenager meets rebellious Gaby Makespeace, in a friendship that transcends the damaged legacies...
7) Black Hills
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Haunted by Custer's ghost, and also by his ability to see into the memories and futures of legendary men like Sioux war-chief Crazy Horse, Paha Sapa plans to silence his ghost forever and reclaim his people's legacy--on the very day FDR comes to Mount Rushmore to dedicate the Jefferson face
Author
Series
Monograph volume no. 3
Publisher
Pacific Center for Western Historical Studies, University of the Pacific
Pub. Date
c1973
Language
English
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The magic tree house takes Jack and his sister Annie to the Great Plains where they learn about the life of the Lakota Indians.
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Iktomi the trickster tries to fool a buzzard into carrying him across the river on the buzzard's back. Asides printed in italics may be used by the storyteller to encourage listeners to make their own remarks about the action, as in traditional Iktomi storytelling
12) Conquering Horse
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
High on a remote butte, a young Sioux waits. Though daring in battle, skillful, and strong, he cannot be a man until his spiritual vision comes. When it appears, he must interpret it correctly to know who he is, and he must deserve it or continue to be called No Name. No Name has his vision, a glowing white mare who walks among the stars. She tells No Name his destiny and how to achieve it. He must pass through hostile camps, storm, and fire, risking...
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Language
English
Description
"Mountain man Barnaby Skye is on the run in the 1826 Columbia River wilderness. Hired mercenaries, the British military, and some of the most brutal warriors in all the American Northwest are on Barnaby's trail. He and his fellow fur trappers are locked in the most violent struggle of their lives, surrounded on all sides by bloody killers who take no prisoners and who are hell-bent to destroy them, particularly the young mountain man Barnaby Skye....
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
She'd helped convict him of a crime he didn't commit. Now she wants his help adopting the son he never knew he had.
Seeking refuge in a world not her own, Susan Ellison follows her conscience to the reservation of the Lakota Sioux, hoping to heal the wounds of her ravaged heart. Sentenced to life in prison, former rodeo champion Cleve Black Horse seeks freedom and justice.
Two lonely outcasts separated by culture, stubborn pride and prison bars, their...
Author
Publisher
New World Library
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
A note is left on a car windshield, an old dog dies, and Kent Nerburn finds himself back on the Lakota reservation where he traveled more than a decade before with a tribal elder named Dan. The touching, funny, and haunting journey that ensues goes deep into reservation boardingschool mysteries, the dark confines of sweat lodges, and isolated Native homesteads far back in the Dakota hills in search of ghosts that have haunted Dan since childhood....
17) Red bird
Author
Series
Prairie winds volume 3
Publisher
T. Nelson Publishers
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Carrie Brown was only a child when she first met Soaring Eagle, but she's never given up on the dream that one day, they will be together. Those closest to her consider that dream a childish fantasy. Soaring Eagle has spent the years since Carrie left Nebraska studying at Eastern colleges. Now he's a sought-after lecturer-and he's met beautiful, intelligent Julia Woodward. Is Carrie's dream stubborn imagination or God's will? To find out, she must...
Author
Publisher
Cumberland House
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
On the bright Sunday morning of August 17, 1862, four Sioux warriors emerged from the Big Woods northwest of St. Paul, Minnesota, on their way home from an unsuccessful hunt. When they came upon the homestead of Robinson Jones, a white man who ran a post office and general store and offered lodging for travelers, the Indians opened fire on the settlers, killing almost all of them. Soon bands of Sioux were rampaging across southwestern Minnesota, attacking...
Author
Series
Publisher
New World Library
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A haunting dream that will not relent pulls author Kent Nerburn back into the hidden world of Native America, where dreams have meaning, animals are teachers, and the "old ones" still have powers beyond our understanding. In this latest narrative, we travel through the lands of the Lakota and the Ojibwe, where we encounter a strange little girl with an unnerving connection to the past, a forgotten asylum that history has tried to hide, and the complex,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the diary account of her life at a government-run Pennsylvania boarding school in 1880, a twelve-year-old Sioux Indian girl reveals a great need to find a way to help her people
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