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La historia de Toro Sentado

2002
Introduces the Hunkpapa leader, Sitting Bull, including his childhood, war with the United States over land, life on a reservation, touring with Buffalo Bill, and death.

Iktomi and the buffalo skull

a Plains Indian story
1996
Iktomi, the Plains Indian trickster, interrupts a powwow of the Mouse People and gets his head stuck in a buffalo skull. Asides and questions printed in italics may be addressed by the storyteller to listeners, encouraging them to make their own remarks about the action.

Sitting Bull and the Plains Indians

1987
Presents a brief biography of the warrior and tribal chief of the Sioux Indians and surveys the history, culture, religion, and daily life of the Plains Indians, relations between Indians and white settlers, and the displacement of tribes onto reservations.

Iktomi and the buzzard

a Plains Indian story
1998
Iktomi the trickster tries to fool a buzzard into carrying him across the river on the buzzard's back. Asides printed in italics may be used by the storyteller to encourage listeners to make their own remarks about the action, as in traditional Iktomi storytelling.

How would you survive as an American Indian?

1997
Describes the everyday life and customs of various Plains Indian tribes during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in North America.

Trickster tales from prairie lodgefires

1979
Stories and fables of two prairie Indian tribes, the Poncas and the Kiowas, about a character who was half medicine man and half trickster and how he affected the lives of various animals and other Indians who lived on the prairie.

Tepee

2008
Simple text and color photographs describe how Native Americans constructed tepees.

Crazy Horse

brave warrior
2013
Felix and Maisie re-enter The Treasure Chest and suddenly find themselves in the midst of a Lakota village, where they meet a young man, soon to be known as Crazy Horse, and embark on an adventure that includes fascinating vision quests and exciting battles.

Passage to Little Bighorn

1999
Fifteen-year-old Dakota, who has Lakota blood in him, is hurled back through time to meet his ancestor Sitting Bull and witness the massacre at the Battle of Little Bighorn.

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