full-color photographs

year by year

and deckle-edge pages

encouraging more nuanced interpretations of this significant moment in Lakota and American history

plaintive book introduces a major new voice in contemporary literature

Grasshopper Girl science full-color photographsYoung Psipsi is sick in bed. What will make her feel better? An Unktomi trickster story from her father lulls her to sleep. "Unktomi stories have been shared in Dakota families and communities for a very long time. This tradition continued into the childhood of my mother's generation. Depending upon location and community, variations of this Unktomi story have been told. This Unktomi story is a local version my mother and her siblings heard from their