The Land Grab : The Legend of Big Heart series Book 1 Photography Clifford Melton Johnson

Clifford Melton Johnson

Archival black and white photographs appear throughout the book and an end note offers additional details about residential schools

Later in life Buffalo Bird Woman told her story to an anthropologist who recorded it and the author takes quotes from this work and places sentences at the beginning of each section

Contributors: Jennifer Adese

Dickason examines the role of government and its relationship with Aboriginal People during the 19th and 20th centuries

The Land Grab : The Legend of Big Heart series Book 1 Photography Clifford Melton JohnsonAlfreda Beartrack Algeo, a storyteller and poet, artist and illustrator, is a member of the Lower Brule Lakota Nation, Kul Wicasa Oyate, in Lower Brule, South Dakota, where she grew up. The Land Grab is the story of Alfred Swallow and his family as they fend off attempts to take their land. Alfred is eleven years old and has many responsibilities not expected of a young boy. His Lal (grandfather) has instilled in his grandson many Lakota traditions,