Saga of the Sioux : an adaptation of Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Title:
Saga of the Sioux : an adaptation of Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Author:
Brown, Dee, 1908-2002.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : Henry Holt and Company, LLC, [2011]
©2011
Physical Description:
xvi, 208 pages : illustrations, maps, 25 cm
Summary:
A lavishly illustrated adaptation for children of Brown's meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century.
Language:
English
Contents:
Introduction -- Oceti Sakowin: the great Sioux nation -- Who are the Sioux? -- War begins in Minnesota -- The Santees lose their homeland -- War comes to the Powder River -- Red Cloud's war -- The Fetterman massacre -- A treaty is signed -- Breaking the treaty of Fort Laramie -- Victory at Little Bighorn -- The death of Crazy Horse -- Sitting Bull returns home -- The death of Sitting Bull -- The massacre at Wounded Knee -- Bittersweet victory.
Reading Level:
1140 Lexile.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 7.8 7.0 147223.
Reading Counts RC 6-8 11. 11 Quiz: 55740.
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ISBN:
9780805093643
Format :
Book
