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2) Whereas
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award. WHEREAS her birth signaled the responsibility as mother to teach what it is to be Lakota therein the question: What did I know about being Lakota? Signaled panic, blood rush my embarrassment. What did I know of our language but pieces? Would I teach her to be pieces? Until a friend comforted, Don't worry, you and your daughter will learn together. Today she stood sunlight...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Narrates the life of the Lakota Native American, providing first-person perspectives on such topics as his childhood visions, involvement in the battles of Little Bighorn and Wounded Knee, and contributions to Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
7) Black Elk
Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Black Elk has an important place in Native American history and United States history, having been a big part of the Battle of Wounded Knee. A medicine man of the Oglala Sioux with great talents as a healer, Black Elk is a fascinating figure for young readers to learn about. In this volume, his life and importance are discussed in age-appropriate detail. Historical context in the main text and fact boxes supplements social studies classroom learning...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The untold story of the great Ogala Sioux chief Red Cloud, the most powerful Indian commander of the Plains who witnessed the opening of the West and forced the American government to sue for peace in a conflict named for him.
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized biography of Crazy Horse, chief of the Sioux and the greatest of Indian cavalry generals. The victor at Little Big Horn is portrayed as a warrior monk for whom war is a spiritual enterprise and who considers life on the reservation fit only for whites. By the author of High Missouri.
12) Black Elk speaks
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Black Elk Speaks, the story of the Oglala Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863-1950) and his people during momentous twilight years of the nineteenth century, offers readers much more than a precious glimpse of a vanished time. Black Elk's searing visions of the unity of humanity and Earth, conveyed by John G. Neihardt, have made this book a classic that crosses multiple genres. Whether appreciated as the poignant tale of a Lakota...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Describes the life of the Native American holy man who fought at Little Big Horn, witnessed the death of his cousin Crazy Horse, traveled to Europe as part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show and became a traditionalist in the Ghost Dance movement"--
15) Young Lakota
Publisher
Cine Qua Non
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
In this award-winning documentary, Cecilia Fire Thunder- the first female President of the Oglala Sioux tribe, defies a proposed South Dakota law criminalizing all abortion by threatening to build a women's clinic on the sovereign territory of the reservation. Her threats ignite a political firestorm that sets off a chain reaction in the lives of three young Lakota on the Pine Ridge Reservation, forcing each of them to make choices that define who...
Author
Series
Civilization of the American Indian volume 254
Publisher
University of Oklahoma
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
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