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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Waterlily

Waterlily

Deloria, Ella Cara
Gardner, Susan
Demallie, Raymond J.

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Publisher Price: $18.95

ISBN10: 0803219040
ISBN13: 9780803219045
Publisher: Bison Books
Published: Apr 1 2009
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.40
Language: English

Exquisite evocation, in novelistic form, of the life of a female Dakota (Sioux) in the mid-nineteenth century, before whites settled the plains. . . . An unself-conscious and never precious or quaint pairing of scholarship and fiction.--Kirkus

When Blue Bird and her grandmother leave their family's camp to gather beans for the long, threatening winter, they inadvertently avoid the horrible fate that befalls the rest of the family. Luckily, the two women are adopted by a nearby Dakota community and are eventually integrated into their kinship circles. Ella Cara Deloria's tale follows Blue Bird and her daughter, Waterlily, through the intricate kinship practices that created unity among her people.

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