Status
Available
Genres
Publication
Simon & Schuster (Juv) (1994), Edition: Library Binding, 279 pages
Description
Waskn Mani, "Moves Walking," the son of a Lakota woman and one of the stars in the sky, is torn between his devotion to the mystical world and his destiny of confronting the powerful one-eyed warrior Fire Thunder.
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This novel captures the essence of oral traditions with its circular time line, sentence structure that matches the rhythm of the events being narrated. This is powerful writing by a white man who has absorbed Lakota frame-of-reference, but whether or not he has done it accurately is not for me to
We are given the story of Waskn Mani, who does not know his father, whose mother leaves without a word one year, who lives near the mountain with the pattern of a woman scorched upon it, who listens to a star which wants to be welcomed by the people.
We are given the daily lives of a village in the days when the people followed the buffalo, a village not always in peace but a village that continues to learn how to be a community of relationships.
We are given the story of a warrior who has been maimed but still is known as the best hunter, a warrior whose heart has been buried under unbearable pain, a warrior who silently ensures his mentally-different sister is taken care of.
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say.We are given the story of Waskn Mani, who does not know his father, whose mother leaves without a word one year, who lives near the mountain with the pattern of a woman scorched upon it, who listens to a star which wants to be welcomed by the people.
We are given the daily lives of a village in the days when the people followed the buffalo, a village not always in peace but a village that continues to learn how to be a community of relationships.
We are given the story of a warrior who has been maimed but still is known as the best hunter, a warrior whose heart has been buried under unbearable pain, a warrior who silently ensures his mentally-different sister is taken care of.
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Subjects
Awards
South Dakota Teen Choice Book Awards (Nominee — 1996)
Christy Awards (Nominee — 2004)
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
279 p.; 6.25 x 1.25 inches
ISBN
0671799118 / 9780671799113