Washoe County Library System

"A haunting novel spanning several generations, The Seed Keeper follows a Dakhóta family’s struggle to preserve their way of life, and their sacrifices to protect what matters most. Rosalie Iron Wing has grown up in the woods with her father, Ray, a former science teacher who tells her stories of plants, of the stars, of the origins of the Dakhóta people. Until, one morning, Ray doesn’t return from checking his traps. Told she has no family,...

A note is left on a car windshield, an old dog dies, and Kent Nerburn finds himself back on the Lakota reservation where he traveled more than a decade before with a tribal elder named Dan. The touching, funny, and haunting journey that ensues goes deep into reservation boarding-school mysteries, the dark confines of sweat lodges, and isolated Native homesteads far back in the Dakota hills in search of ghosts that have haunted Dan since childhood.In...

"Explains Sioux history and highlights Sioux life in modern society"--

The magic tree house takes Jack and his sister Annie to the Great Plains where they learn about the life of the Lakota Indians.

With the help of the shaman, Ugly-Old-Woman, twin brothers defeat an evil serpent, but they find that the powers they gain have a great cost.

"38 Nooses" details the events surrounding the 1862 uprising of the Dakota Indians led by Little Crow within the larger context of the Civil War, the history of the Dakota people, and the subsequent United States-Indian wars.

Jeston Nash and his band of outlaws steal a herd of horses and drive north to sell them to the U.S. Army. The novel follows the drive against the background of the Powder River Indian War for the Wyoming Territory, the only war the Indians won. By the author of While Angels Dance.