These poems honor a generation of Native American elders and their traditions, beginning with Lakota Sioux relatives: quill-worker Ethel Black Crow, quilt-maker Nellie He Dog Black Crow, and sundance leader Selo Black Crow; next, other Oglala Lakota: the American Horse family, Nikolas Black Elk, and Arthur Chips, Carrier of Songs; and finally, Bob Cannon, an Osage long-distance runner, who lived his dream to carry the Olympic torch. Framed by two medicine wheels, this chapbook honors Anuk-Ite, representing life/death, bringer of designs from the stars, and also includes poems about Camp...
These poems honor a generation of Native American elders and their traditions, beginning with Lakota Sioux relatives: quill-worker Ethel Black Crow, q...
With The Handless Maiden, the first of the Lakota mysteries, Dorothy Black Crow joined the ranks of today's top crime novelists. She has written a "no-holds-barred, knock-your-socks-off unforgettable story of the South Dakota Badlands." (William Kent Krueger, Edgar Award winner & NYT bestselling author of Ordinary Grace) Joanna Joe was murdered, her body dumped in a ditch on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Her hands - tattooed with her allegiance to the American Indian Movement - have been stolen. A killer's trophy? Or a message? Lakota medicine-man-in-training Alex Turning Hawk is determined to...
With The Handless Maiden, the first of the Lakota mysteries, Dorothy Black Crow joined the ranks of today's top crime novelists. She has written a "no...