Norman Two Bull has often climbed the sacred butte to search for
the agates that he sells at extortionately low rates to the local
trader. But when he ascends the butte to fulfill his old
grandfather's dream he discovers an ancient coup stick, said by his
grandfather to be Wakan (magic) and which - when hung in the Two
Bull home - seems to grow brighter every day and ushers in a streak
of good luck. The stick's benign magic coincides with, and is an
apt metaphor for, Norman's growing pride and faith in the old ways
- a change of heart which enables him to confront the cheating
trader and refuse to guide a tourist who wants to climb the butte
in search of more agates and relics. (Incidentally, Norman's
puritanical churchgoing mother represents the forces of
assimilation here, but our sympathies for her grew unexpectedly
when Mr. Two Bull angrily forbids her to handle the coup stick
because "the old ones would not permit a woman to touch such a
thing as this.") Sneve's range as a storyteller is limited, and she
has used this same theme - the affirmation of Indian identity
through the discovery of an old relic - in High Elk's Treasure (KR,
1972). But there is a serene sincerity about Norman that gives
weight to his experience. (Kirkus Reviews)
After a fifteen-year-old Sioux finds a sacred stick, unusual things begin to happen to his family.
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