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Sitting Bull

2004
Looks at the life of Sitting Bull, and tells how the Native American leader struggled to help his people keep their land from being taken by the American government.

If you lived with the Sioux Indians

1974
Describes the daily life of the Sioux Indians--their clothing, food, games, customs, etc.--before and after the coming of the white man.

Gift horse

a Lakota story
1999
Relates the story of a Lakota youth whose father gives him a horse in preparation for his making the transition from boyhood into manhood and becoming a Lakota Warrior.

Iktomi and the berries

a Plains Indian story
1992
Relates Iktomi's fruitless efforts to pick some buffalo berries.

The great race of the birds and animals

1991
A retelling of the Cheyenne and Sioux myth about the Great Race, a contest called by the Creator to settle the question of whether man or buffalo should have supremacy and thus become the guardians of Creation.

Sitting Bull

Sioux leader
1994
A biography of the Sioux chief who worked to maintain the rights of Native American people and who led the defeat of General Custer at the Little Big Horn in 1876.

A circle unbroken

1988
Captured by a roving band of Sioux Indians and brought up as the chief's daughter, Rachel is recaptured by her white family and finds it difficult to adjust, as she longs to return to the tribe.

Sitting Bull

a biography
2007
Tells the life story of nineteenth-century Sioux leader Sitting Bull, describing his abilities as a warrior, the Fort Laramie Treaty, the Battle of the Little Bighorn, his experiences with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, and his death.

The grass dancer

1995
Spirits of the 1860s, Ghost Horse and Red Dress, seek to be reunited through an Indian couple of the 1980s.

A good year to die

the story of the great Sioux War
1995
Discusses the Great Sioux War of 1876 with an emphasis on how it affected the Native Americans involved, specifically the Ogala, the Lakota, the Dakota, and the Cheyenne.

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