Arcadia Public Library

Describes the history, family life, and traditions of the Sioux, and provides brief portraits of famous leaders, including Crazy Horse and Charles Eastman.

"General overview for young readers of the Sioux people. Covers history, daily life, and beliefs. Contains recipe and craft"--Provided by publisher.

After Iktomi, the Spider, tricks mankind into going to Earth, Tatanaka, the holy man, takes pity on their plight and, changing himself into a buffalo, gives up his life so that men could have food, clothing, and shelter.

"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...

Recounts a winter when the author, having outgrown her winter coat, finds a gray fur coat in the donation boxes, only to have a classmate claim it before she can.

"An engrossing and tautly written account of a critical chapter in American history." —Los Angeles Times
Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Hurricane's Eye, Pulitzer Prize finalist Mayflower, and Valiant Ambition, is a historian with a unique ability to bring history to life. The Last Stand is Philbrick's monumental reappraisal of the epochal clash at the Little Bighorn in 1876 that gave birth to...

Describes the history, social life and customs, and present status of the Lakota.