Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve

• Apr-2025
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A Lakota child spends a summer with grandparents at their home on the Rosebud Reservation in this young chapter book, illustrated in full-color. Multiple starred reviews! "A captivating tale about the healing power of community and familial bond...

• Aug-2011
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Virginia's coat is too small and hardly protects her from the frigid South Dakota winter. As Christmas approaches, all the children on the Sioux reservation look forward to receiving boxes full of clothing sent by congregations in the East. Virginia ...

• Jun-2008
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Strange events and an undercurrent of tension permeate The Chichi Hoohoo Bogeyman. While secretly exploring an old fort on the South Dakota prairie, three Indian girls encounter a stranger. One of the girls playfully names him the chichi hoohoo bogey...

• Nov-2007
• / General Fiction
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This charming and poignant contemporary story about two Lakota girls and their Laotian friend illuminates for children and adults the Lakota meaning of family, friendship, life, and death. In the Lakota way, Lana and her cousin Lori are like sisters,...

• Sep-2005
• / General Fiction
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Told from the point of view of three Lakota boys, this story examines how Lewis and Clark's expedition effected the natives which lived on the uncharted lands they explored, creating misunderstandings on both sides that led to future trouble....

• Apr-2003
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"'Grandpa, ' I quietly asked, 'how come when you talk about the past, you say you were a cowboy and an Indian?' I sensed the regret in his short laugh when he answered, 'Cause I was both and both ways are gone forever.'

With greatimagination and v...

• Sep-1997
• / Literary
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The friendship and adventures of Iktomi, the trickster figure from Lakota legend, and Troll, the familiar character from Norse mythology, are the subject of this imaginative, marvelously spun tale. While searching for his Norwegian immigrant family, ...

• Oct-1993
• / General Fiction
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Norman Two Bull is a modern and savvy fifteen-year-old Sioux who lives on a Dakota reservation with his parents. He is impatient with, if not faintly contemptuous of, the “old ways.” Encouraged by his grandfather, Norman makes a perilous climb to...

• Sep-1993
• / General Fiction
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A retelling of the Sioux creation myth accompanies a history of the Sioux that recounts their migration from Minnesota to the Plains in the 1700s, their buffalo hunting, family life, dances and ceremonies, and other aspect of Sioux culture....

• Mar-1989
• / General Fiction
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A selection of native American poems stemming from the oral tradition incorporates contemporary tribal poetry and poems of the elders--all of which focus on the theme of youth from birth through adolescence...