Brenda Guiled

Winter of the Shifting Stars: Children's Story of a Lakota-Sioux Family, 1833 (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Winter of the Shifting Stars is fiction. It is a story about a year in the life of a 10-year-old Lakota girl, set in the year 1833. The Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota tribes were kotas, or friends and allies, Their enemies called them the Sioux.

Blue Whirlwind's father had been killed the previous year by enemy warriors, whose people were being pushed west by white settlers. Her village must prepare for war, to avenge this death, while continuing their traditional activities through the 13 moons of the years.

Winter of the Shifting Stars is based on respectful research into an era and way of living long past. It has 168 b+w pictures fashioned by the author/illustrator from antique photographs, paintings, artifacts, and some of her own artwork.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brenda Guiled
• Altersempfehlung: ab 5 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781311169341
• Artikelnr.: 70543418

Autorenporträt

Brenda Guiled (rhymes with `wild`) is the author of non-fiction and fiction works for adults and children, published as books, curriculum materials, in newspapers, and more.
As an illustrator and graphic artist, she works in watercolours and digitally. She studies and teaches traditional Okinawan karate-do, as a way of life, never throwing the first strike (no tournaments), always working for win-win solutions.
She is married, has two grown children, two grandchildren, and lives on a West Coast island.