Ten-year-old Susie and her father love living on the South Dakota prairie with its vast, uninterrupted views of land and sky, but Susie's mother greatly misses their old life in Ohio.
A mysterious note from a strange woman interrupts Rinnah's vacation in Spearfish Canyon and she, Tommy Red Hawk, and Meagen Paige team up to investigate the curse of the Royal Ruby.
Her mother's death and a year-long drought has made life difficult for twelve-year-old Rachel and her family on their farm in the Dakotas, but when she learns that her father plans to get married again, it is almost more than Rachel can bear.
Tells the story of how Mount Rushmore, a gigantic sculpture of four American presidents in South Dakota, was conceived, developed, worked, and realized, and includes a chronology, glossary, and resources.
Ten-year-old Susie and her father love living on the South Dakota prairie with its vast, uninterrupted views of land and sky, but Susie's mother greatly misses their old life in Ohio.
Draws from the letters of parents, children, and school officials at Haskell Institute in Kansas, and the Flandreau school in South Dakota, to explore the emotional history of Indian boarding school experiences in the early twentieth century.
