Booklist (August 2007 (Vol. 103, No. 22))
Grades 1-3. Though we fought hard, they built their railroad, / and noise and smoke and greed / came to stay on our land. In this handsome, fictionalized picture-book biography (which is catalogued as nonfiction), spare, moving poetry and beautiful double-page paintings depict Sitting Bull, the chief of the Sioux people, remembering how it was. The chief recalls when he was 14 and first counted coup by striking an enemy warrior’s head, and then how it all changed with the arrival of the whites who killed the buffalo and wanted to own the land and sell it, piece by piece. He also remembers Custer, and how the Sioux were hunted and hounded and forced onto the reservation. Then he thinks back to his own surrender. The art includes clear colored-pencil pictures inspired by images of Sitting Bull housed in the Smithsonian Institution. A final note fills in some of the essentials of the rich history.
Grades 1-3. Though we fought hard, they built their railroad, / and noise and smoke and greed / came to stay on our land. In this handsome, fictionalized picture-book biography (which is catalogued as nonfiction), spare, moving poetry and beautiful double-page paintings depict Sitting Bull, the chief of the Sioux people, remembering how it was. The chief recalls when he was 14 and first counted coup by striking an enemy warrior’s head, and then how it all changed with the arrival of the whites who killed the buffalo and wanted to own the land and sell it, piece by piece. He also remembers Custer, and how the Sioux were hunted and hounded and forced onto the reservation. Then he thinks back to his own surrender. The art includes clear colored-pencil pictures inspired by images of Sitting Bull housed in the Smithsonian Institution. A final note fills in some of the essentials of the rich history.
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