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A young girl spends the summer at her grandmother’s home in
Standing Rock Reservation in this heartwarming family story from
acclaimed author-artist S. D. Nelson Now that Clara is almost in
third grade, she’s finally old enough to spend her first summer
away from home visiting her grandma, Unci, and her cousin at their
home in Standing Rock Reservation. To welcome her visit, Uncle
Louie brings an extra-special surprise in his pickup truck: the
tipi that’s been passed down through their family for
generations. The girls learn how to stack the poles and wrap the
canvas covering around them, how to paint spirit pictures on its
walls, and how the circle of the tipi tells its own story,
reminding us to how to live in the great Circle of Life. Over long
days spent playing outside, doing beadwork together, telling
stories, singing songs, and sleeping under the stars, the tipi
brings the family closer together. As summer draws to an end,
goodbye comes all too soon, but Clara will always cling to the
memories of summer days and starry nights . . . and Grandma’s
tipi.
Pickup trucks and eagles, yellow school buses and painted horses,
Mother Earth and Sister Meadowlark all join together to greet the
dawn. They marvel at the colours and sounds, smells and memories
that dawn creates. Animals and humans alike turn their faces
upwards and gaze as the sun makes its daily journey from horizon to
horizon. Dawn is a time to celebrate with a smiling heart, to start
a new day in the right way, excited for what might come. Birds sing
and dance, children rush to learn, dewdrops glisten from leaves,
and gradually the sun warms us. Each time the sun starts a new
circle, we can start again as well. All these things are part of
the Lakota way, a means of living in balance. S. D. Nelson offers
young readers wonder and happiness as a better way of appreciating
their culture and surroundings. He draws inspiration from
traditional stories to create Greet the Dawn. His artwork fuses
elements of modern with traditional. Above all, he urges each of us
to seize the opportunity that dawn offers each day.
Told from a Native American point of view, Black Elk's Vision
provides a unique perspective on American history. From recounting
the visions Black Elk had as a young boy, to his involvement in the
battles of Little Big Horn and Wounded Knee, as well as his
journeys to New York City and Europe with Buffalo Bill's Wild West
Show, this biographical account of Black Elk-an Oglala Lakota
medicine man who lived from 1863 to 1950-follows him from childhood
through adulthood.
Relates the story of a Lakota youth whose father gives him a horse
in preparation for his making the transition from boyhood into
manhood and becoming a Lakota Warrior.
A prowling wildcat finds a surprise in an old dried-up buffalo
skull. A group of mice are dancing the night away and not paying
attention to the dagers around them. Does the wildcat spell doom
for the mice, or will they escape to safety? Dance in a Buffalo
Skull is an American Indain tale of danger and survival on the
Great Plains.
When Young Wolf and his older sister wander from their village and face the danger of a prairie fire, their deceased grandmother, now one of the Star People, appears to guide them.
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