Runs with Courage, by Joan M. Wolf
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- Schools -- Fiction
- JUVENILE FICTION + Historical -- United States -- 19th Century
- Great Sioux Reservation (N.D. and S.D.) -- Juvenile fiction
- Indians of North America -- Great Plains -- Fiction
- Lakota Indians -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Dakota Territory -- Fiction
- Identity -- Fiction
- Indians of North America + Ethnic identity -- Juvenile fiction
- JUVENILE FICTION + Social Themes + Prejudice & Racism
- Lakota children -- Juvenile fiction
- Indians of North America + Cultural assimilation -- Juvenile fiction
- Boarding schools -- Fiction
- Off-reservation boarding schools -- Juvenile fiction
- Race relations -- Fiction
- JUVENILE FICTION + People & Places -- United States -- Native American
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Runs with Courage, by Joan M. Wolf
Language
eng
Index
no index present
resource.interestAgeLevel
Ages 9-12
Literary form
fiction
Main title
Runs with Courage
Oclc number
939426336
Responsibility statement
by Joan M. Wolf
Summary
Ten-year-old Four Winds is a young Lakota girl caught up in the changes brought about by her people's forced move to the reservation. Set in the Dakota Territory, it is the year 1880. Four Winds has been taken away from her family and brought to a boarding school run by whites. It is here she is taught English and learns how to assimilate into white culture. But soon she discovers that the teachers at this school are not interested in assimilation but rather in erasing her culture. On the reservation, Four Winds had to fight against starvation. Now she must fight to hold on to who she is
Target audience
pre adolescent
Incoming Resources
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