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Lana's Lakota Moons - Couverture souple

Sneve, Virginia Driving Hawk

 
9780803260283: Lana's Lakota Moons
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0803260288 ISBN 13 : 9780803260283
Editeur : Bison Books, 2007

Synopsis

This charming and poignant contemporary story about two Lakota girls and their Laotian friend illuminates for children and adults the Lakota meaning of family, friendship, life, and death. In the Lakota way, Lana and her cousin Lori are like sisters, growing up together under the caring eyes of an extended family of parents and grandparents. Also like sisters, they have their share of squabbles and fights, but when they meet a new girl at school who has recently arrived from Laos, they are drawn closer by their shared friendship, their discoveries about cultural differences, and their experience with loss and death. An image of footprints in the snow, one under the other so that it looks as if only one person is walking, becomes the central compelling image in the story. "We can't keep snow from melting," says Grandpa, "But the footprints will always be there, even if we can't see them." Taking her inspiration from Lakota and Asian students in her home state of South Dakota, award-winning children's writer Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve has crafted a simple story of friendship that survives a tragic year, beautifully illuminating along the way many profound truths about the human spirit.

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À propos de l'auteur

Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve is a well-known author of stories and essays about Native American life and culture and a recipient of the National Humanities Medal. She is the author of Grandpa Was a Cowboy and an Indian and Other Stories and The Trickster and the Troll, both available in Bison Books editions. Her memoir, Completing the Circle (Nebraska 1995) won the North American Indian Prose Award.

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Éditeur
Bison Books
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0803260288
ISBN 13 
9780803260283
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
128
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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