Spanish Peaks Library District

When Crazy Horse, strange man of the Oglala Bad Face Sioux, lay dying--bayoneted in the back by white men--he placed a final Indian trust with the aged medicine priest, Crowfoot: 'Go and take back our Oglala horses from that white man who stole them from us ... take the horses to meet our red brother Joseph and his Nez Perces as we promised them, to aid them in their hard fighting toward freedom in the Land of the Grandmother.' Crowfoot, then over...

After fleeing North Dakota and the now defunct Wild West Show, Cassie Lockwood and her companions have finally found the hidden valley in South Dakota where her father had dreamed of putting down roots. But to her dismay, she discovers a ranch already built on her land. Cassie's arrival surprises Mavis Engstrom and forces her to reveal secrets she's kept hidden for years. Her son Ransom is suspicious of Cassie and questions the validity of her claim...

In June of 1876, amid the chaos and bloodshed of the Little Big Horn battlefield, a young Sioux boy impulsively decides to show his courage by harmlessly "counting coup" on a dying soldier. But when he lays hands on General George Armstrong Custer precisely at the instant of the general's death, eleven-year-old Paha Sapa, whose name means "Black Hills," can't know that their brief contact will result in years of uncanny connection. For at that moment...

A casual note left on the windshield of a car. The death of an old dog. And author Kent Nerburn unexpectedly finds himself back on the Dakota reservation where more than a decade before he traveled with the elder, Dan, whose thoughts he chronicled in the classic of Native American studies, Neither Wolf nor Dog. Now almost ninety, Dan wants Nerburn to assist in the unlikely task of burying Fatback, the old Labrador who had been Dan's closest companion...

Gift donated by George "Peter" Warrick.

Crow Chief always warns the buffalo that hunters are coming, until Falling Star, a savior, comes to camp, tricks Crow Chief, and teaches him that all must share and live like relatives together.

A biography of the Sioux chief who worked to maintain the rights of Native American people and who led the defeat of General Custer at the Little Big Horn in 1876.

A brief biography of the only Indian ever to be chief of all the Plains Sioux.