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Because the Sioux had killed her Papa at the Battle of Little Bighorn, eleven-year-old Miranda struggles with her mama's prejudice and her own experiences with Indians in the Wild West Show.

Great-grandmother Tandy tells Lacey about a quilt given to their ancestor, Daniel, who, upset by the changes after his grandfather's death, leaves Illinois for South Dakota in 1891 to find his father, and learns about the Sioux Ghost Dance first-hand.

A biography of the Sioux Indian who became chief through bravery in battle rather than through heredity and who tried unsuccessfully to save his people's land.

A young Sioux warrior earns the right to be called historian for his tribe after numerous adventures and trials which test his ability to tell the story of his people with truth and courage.

Illustrations and simple text describe what it was like to live in a Sioux village on the Great Plains from 1600 to 1800 A.D.

Narrates the events leading up to the massacre which marked the end of a long succession of wars between whites and Indians, and concludes with a description of the battle itself.

Presents an illustrated retelling of the Native American creation myth that explains the origin of the Dakotas.

Waskn Mani, "Moves Walking, " the son of a Lakota woman and one of the stars in the sky, is torn between his devotion to the mystical world and his destiny of confronting the powerful one-eyed warrior Fire Thunder.

An Indian boy, discovered in a wolf den by a Sioux medicine man, struggles to win acceptance into his adopted village.