A collection of folklore, from the Dakota and Teton Indians of North America, which use animals to focus on the relationships which exist between man and nature.
Iktomi, a Lakota trickster, and a troll from Norway meet and become competitors, helpers, and friends as they try to hold on to the native ways that are being abandoned as more people settle across America.
Paha Sapa believes he is being haunted by the ghost of General George Armstrong Custer and, driven by a mysterious vision, vows to exorcise the ghost from his body and reclaim the Sioux tribe's legacy while working as a dynamite expert on the Mount Rushmore project.
Accounts of significant events, both happy and sad, in the lives of twenty-four young Sioux form a composite view of the life of the modern Sioux Indians.
A biography of the warrior, prophet, and chief of the Sioux tribes who led his people's resistance to the advancing white man during the second half of the nineteenth century.
A former Union soldier is assigned to an abandoned fort within Sioux Indian territory. He learns to love and respect his Native American neighbors and chooses to share in their hardships.
A Lakota girl of the late nineteenth century tells of her childhood on the plains and her experiences at the Carlisle School, where she learns the ways of the white world.
