The Lakotas and the Black Hills: The Struggle for Sacred Ground

The Lakotas and the Black Hills: The Struggle for Sacred GroundA concise and engrossing account of the Lakota and the battle to regain their homeland. The Lakota Indians made their home in the majestic Black Hills mountain range during the last millennium, drawing on the hills' endless bounty for physical and spiritual sustenance. Yet the arrival of white settlers brought the Lakotas into inexorable conflict with the changing world, at a time when their tribe would produce some of the most famous Native Americans

sixteen first speakers have teamed with linguists

Blonde Indian is a story about returning

Apple in the Middle has won national recognition from the American Indian Library Association (AILA)

and his mother is Lakota

he rewrites the history of the American cowboy

and elder relatives

middle-class Kansas town

challenged white American perceptions of modernity

His account reveals an authentic 'history': the missing details

medicine people have called on the spiritual world to help humans in their relationships with each other and the natural world

and necessary addition to school libraries and classrooms

" Margaret realizes she is now marked as an outsider