Children's Stories & Young Adult

What stories are girls told of womanhood? Are they of strength, grace, and creativity? Not long ago, they heard whispered tales of impending curses. Physical changes were clinically defined in textbooks, but not spoken of openly. Embarrassment was...

Stands-by-Herself lives with her grandmother in a buffalo-hide tipi among their Cheyenne people on the Great Plains. Other children make fun of her because she is always by herself dreaming. One day she finds a strange egg-shaped rock and senses...

Windy Girl is blessed with a vivid imagination. From Uncle she gathers stories of long-ago traditions, about dances and sharing and gratitude. Windy can tell such stories herself–about her dog, Itchy Boy, and the way he dances to request a treat...

In a world nearly destroyed by global warming, the Indigenous people of North America are being hunted for their bone marrow, which carries the key to recovering something the rest of the population has lost: the ability to dream.Just when you think you...

This book is adapted for young readers and general readers. It cuts though non-Indian expansionist rhetoric to provide the reader with an American Indian perspective of the conquest of the trans-Mississippi West during the last four decades of the...

The determined story of an Ojibwe grandmother (nokomis), Josephine Mandamin, and her great love for nibi (water). Nokomis walks to raise awareness of our need to protect nibi for future generations and for all life on the planet. The walks are full of...

Paul Goble has pulled together six of his best Iktomi stories and compiled them into a compendium of trouble, disaster, fun, and examples from which to learn. Iktomi is the Lakota name for the American Indian Trickster who appears in the stories of...

How did horses first appear to the peoples of the North American plains?According to the legends of the Blackfoot Indians, a wise man dreamed of strange animals in a far off land: they were as tall and strong as elk, but could be tamed like dogs and...

Red Cloud (1822-1909) was a great warrior and chief of the Lakota . Told from his perspective, Red Cloud: A Lakota Story of War and Surrender describes the events that brought him to prominence as a leader of his people and how he came to surrender them...

This retelling of an ancient Native tale relates the story of Star Boy, son of Morning Star and an earthly bride. It is considered a reverent, eye-catching rendition of an important Indian story. As a symbol of the Sun's disapproval for his mother's...

"One night the boy took his blanket to a hilltop near the village. When we lie down looking up at the stars, and we hear the rumble of far-off thunder, who can say if we fall asleep? Suddenly there were strange and magnificent animals in the sky.......

Lost in the hills with night approaching, Tiblo and his little sister Tanksi, take shelter in a cave, a wolf watches over them. Seemingly in a dream, a wolf keeps them warm during the cold night and then the next morning leads them back home. For his...

A sacred tale of the Blackfoot, this book tells the tale of six orphaned brothers, neglected by their people and taunted and scorned by other children. The neglected boys are befriended only by the camp dogs. Growing tired of the unkindness around them,...

Flying Cloud's father gives him a Gift Horse to mark the beginning of his journey to manhood - will he prove he has the courage to become a true Warrior?When his father gives him a Gift Horse marking the beginning of his journey to manhood, Flying Cloud...

The friendship and adventures of Iktomi, the trickster figure from Lakota legend, and Troll, the familiar character from Horse mythology, are the subject of this imaginative, marvelously spun tale.

The beasts were beautiful and like none he had seen before. Curiosity leads a young warrior to track a new animal. It leads him far from home, but at last he finds a herd of the strange creatures. These horses shimmer with color and run swift as the...

An adaptation from Dee Brown's "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" Dwight Jon Zimmerman's selection and stories from Dee Brown's "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee", combined with new text, maps, and stunning photographs, create a dramatic edition for young...

"It was the first time that the animals and birds danced to the heartbeat of Mother Earth." Animals stop and listen. A new sound is in the forest. The beat vibrates through the trees and across the meadows. What is it? Where is it coming. Muskrat and...

The Native American story of the Buffalo Woman comes from the tribes who followed the buffalo herds on the Great Plains. The buffalo was the source of life for the people, giving them food, hides for robes and tipi covers.The lives of both the buffalo...

The story of "The Woman Who Lived With Wolves" belongs to Lakota historical tradition, and is believed to be a true tale.Legend tells that sometime in the early 1800s a party of Crow men who were on a horse-stealing expedition against their Lakota...

In love with a beautiful girl, but too shy to tell her, a young man is helped by the mysterious Elk Men. One night these mysterious men offer him a special gift - a love flute. Imbued with the voices of the birds and animals, it tells the girl of his...