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.
A retelling of the Cheyenne and Sioux myth about the Great Race, a contest called by the Creator to settle the question whether man or buffalo should have supremacy and thus become the guardians of Creation.
The members of a Native American tribe fight among themselves when they become frustrated and hungry due to the lack of buffalo in the springtime. The sacred woman of the white buffalo provides them with enough buffalo for their survival and a peace pipe when they agree to work together.
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.
The author provides details from Lakota oral tradition pertaining to the Battle at Little Bighorn, and explores the events leading up to the battle, its significance, and the misinformation that has found its way into history for over 100 years.
The continuing fictional account of a Lakota Indian who, after being educated in the white man's ways, joins Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and travels around America and Europe.
