Status
Available
Call number
Call number
FIC HUD
Collection
Local notes
Shelved in Aboriginal Collection - Youth
Description
Living on the western Canadian prairie in the nineteenth century, Sweetgrass, a fifteen-year-old Blackfoot Indian girl, saves her family from a smallpox epidemic and proves her maturity to her father.
Genres
Publication
Edmonton : Tree Frog Press, [1984]
Original publication date
1984
User reviews
LibraryThing member t1bnotown
I really enjoyed this book- I don't see myself reading it again, so I'm swapping it, but still. Even though Sweetgrass talks of nothing but marriage, the story is engaging. I loved watching her life through times of plenty and the hardship of smallpox. Admittedly I paid less attention to her
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constant desire to marry Eagle-Sun than to all that she did day to day, which was fascinating enough for me. Show Less
ISBN
0889670765 / 9780889670761