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Rich with storytelling, history, and folklore, The Lakota Way expresses the heart of Native American philosophy and imparts the path to a fulfilling and meaningful life. Joseph Marshall is a member of the Sicunga Lakota Sioux and has dedicated his entire life to the wisdom he learned from his elders. Here he focuses on the twelve core qualities that are crucial to the Lakota way of living-bravery, fortitude, generosity, wisdom, respect, honor, perseverance, love, humility, sacrifice, truth, and compassion. Whether teaching a lesson on respect imparted by the mythical Deer Woman or the humility embodied by the legendary Lakota leader Crazy Horse, The Lakota Way offers a fresh outlook on spirituality and ethical living.
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pleasant surprise.......2007-09-26
I bought this book at a store in Oklahoma City and it was wrapped in packaging. I had already read three of Marshall's books but when I unwrapped it after buying it, my first reaction was it was a mistake to buy it. It was not what I was expecting. Much to my pleasant surprise, I thoroughly enjoyed Marshall's story telling.
I highly recommend anything he writes. I am currently reading his book on Crazy Horse and it is excellent. His book, "Walking with Grandfather" is outstanding.
Marshall is certainly one of the Elders of his tradition and is an accomplished writer and historian. His works are a must read.
Worth Sharing.......2007-08-25
This book can change you if you are open to it. It made me rethink a few assumptions I had about myself. I think all of us know the dictionary definition of virtues such as generosity and wisdom, but Marshall shares stories and personal insights that teach how to weave those qualities into the fabric of your life. This book is warm-hearted and inspiring. Its organization is well suited for discussion groups. The Lakota Way should be the way of our leaders, neighbors, family members and our hearts.
Re-Read this book.......2006-06-28
The wealth of virtues discussed in this book through the legends of the Lakota tribe are presented in a way that is both entertaining and thought-provoking. A wonderful book that is enjoyable to read, and educational as well. This book now sits on my top shelf, with the few other books that I re-read regularly. This is a place of honor, and speaks to the greatness of Mr. Joseph M. Marshall's explanation of the traditional legends, and their connection to modern life. You don't have to be a Native American to enjoy this book. Read it, and re-read it. See how your personality and character develops into something you never would have imagined!
My review.......2006-03-16
Essential reading for people who practice this spirituality.The author is a great story teller.
Great Book!.......2005-12-20
I live near and work on a reservation in SD. I wanted to read this book to understand the viewpionts my Native American friends better. The way Marshall is able to explain the virtues from a historical, traditional perspective and relate them to modern day is wonderful and easily understood. This is a great book!
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I love folk tales.......2007-06-01
I really enjoy folk tales, and The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush is a beautiful story. Little Gopher paints and spreads his brushes into the fields and the Indian Paintbrushes blossom. The illustrations are beautiful and interesting for children.
Beautiful Tale of Creation.......2007-04-16
I loved this book and think it is a wonderful way to teach children about how flowers came to be. This book is an excellent way to show students that being an individual is important and that each person is different and is needed!!
An Indian legend about how different people have different talents.......2006-08-28
As is the case in all cultures, there are people more and less suited for various tasks. In the world of the American Indians of the plains all life revolved around hunting the buffalo. However, not all boys are meant to be fierce warriors, some are simply not suited to the task. This book is about Little Gopher, a boy who had a Dream-Vision of his grandfather where he was told that he was to paint the pictures of the warriors rather than be one. His canvas was to be stretched white buckskin, his brushes made from the hairs of different animals and his colors were made from rocks and berries. He painted scenes of his people in action, but for some time he longed to make an accurate rendition of a sunset as he never seemed able to create the right colors.
One night he had another vision where he was told that because he had remained true to his calling, on the next day he would be able to sit on a hill and capture the sunset in a painting. He succeeded and he left his brushes on the hill when he carried the painting down to show it to his tribe. The next day his brushes had taken root and had turned into plants with brilliant reds, oranges and yellows. Because of his deeds, the people of his tribe changed his name to He-Who-Brought-the-Sunset-to-the-Earth. This is the legend of how the Indian Paintbrush flowers came into existence.
Like so many other legends of the American Indians, this is a story worth reading. Superbly illustrated using a minimum of color, I recommend this story to all elementary school children.
Painting the Sunset.......2004-02-12
This legend is based on how the Great Plain Indians were given the colors of the sunset by one of the talented Indians. This book shows how Little Gopher, the Indian that painted the colors of the sunset for his People, remained true to his destiny. Even though he felt like he didn't have a special gift, Little Gopher continued to stay dedicated, until he was guided in the right direction by an old grandfather and young maiden in his Dream-Vision. The overall theme of this legend is that perseverance pays off in the end.
This book could be used by teachers to introduce the lesson of how those who are dedicated to a dream or goal can succeed in the end. The plot of the story can be used to demonstrate and teach students how to do story maps. Also, other activities this book can be used for in the classroom are for Literature Circles and Idea Circles.
Indian Paintbrush.......2003-08-10
This story is about Little Gopher who was sad because `he couldn't keep up with the other boys who were always riding, running, shooting their bows, and wrestling to prove their strength.' Luckily for him he had his own special talent, a talent for painting and creating.
When Little Gopher went out into the hills to think about becoming a man, he had a dream vision. This vision told him to find a white buckskin and to `keep it and one day you will paint a picture that is as pure as the colors in the evening sky.'
Little Gopher got the white buckskin soon after, but didn't have the right paints to paint the sunset. He kept trying to achieve the right colors. Every morning he mixed paints in hopes that these ones wouldn't be dull and flat like the others, but to no avail.
One night a voice told him to go up on top of a hill next evening at sunset, `Because you have been faithful to the People and to your true gift, you shall find the colors you are seeking.' Little Gopher went to the hill the next evening and, lo and behold, there are brushes full of paint the color of the sunset waiting there for him to paint his masterpiece.
Little Gopher painted his masterpiece and when he got done he walked back to his tent, leaving the brushes strewn across the hillside. In the morning the brushes had multiplied and turned into flowers, and little Gopher became known as He-Who-Brought-the-Sunset-to-the-Earth.
This book carries several good messages about being true to yourself and not giving up in the face of adversity. It is also a wonderful retelling of a Native American Legend. He book flows wonderfully and the pictures are bright and colorful.
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This case study traces the Cheyenne Indians from their first contact with the French explorer LaSalle in 1680. The book then follows their exodus from Minnesota under pressure from the Sioux, Cel, and Ojibwa; their attempt to gain a foothold in eastern South Dakota and the middle Missouri River; and their final movement into the high western plains in the first half of the 19th century.
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Given that the Great Plains long functioned as a stomping ground for the Oglala Sioux, it was inevitable that Ian Frazier would cross paths with them when he wrote his 1989 chronicle of that sublime flatland. But the encounter between the self-confessed "chintzy middle-class white guy" and his Native American counterparts went so swimmingly that Crazy Horse assumed a starring role in the book. Now Frazier continues his cross-cultural romance in On the Rez. This account of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota is as touching, funny, and maniacally digressive as anything he's written. What's more, he manages to avoid most of the politically correct potholes along the way, producing a vivid, ambivalent (i.e., honest) portrait of a community where the very "landscape is dense with stories."
Much of On the Rez revolves around Le War Lance, whom Frazier first met in Great Plains. This yarn-spinning, beer-swilling figure serves the author as a kind of Native American Virgil, introducing him to the hard facts of reservation life. In fact, their friendship, with its accents of deep affection and dependency, anchors the entire narrative and elicits some typically top-drawer prose:
Le's eyes can be merry and flat as a smile button, or deep and glittering with malice or slyness or something he knows and I never will. He is fifty-seven years old. I have seen his hair, which is black streaked with gray, when it was over two feet long and held with beaded ponytail holders a foot or so apart, and I have seen it much shorter, after he had shaved his head in mourning for a friend who had died.
On the Rez delivers a history of the Oglala nation that spotlights our paleface population in some of its most shameful, backstabbing moments, as well as a quick tour through Indian America. The latter, to be honest, seems a little too conscientiously cooked up from primary sources and news clippings. But elsewhere Frazier is in superb form, reporting everything he sees and hears with enviable clarity and promptly pulling the rug out from under himself whenever he seems too omniscient. Few accounts of reservation life have been this comical; even fewer have moved beyond the poverty and pandemic drunk driving to discern actual, theological wickedness on the premises: "At such moments a sense of compound evil--the evil of the human heart, in league with the original darkness of this wild continent--curls around me like shoots of a fast-growing vine." In the hands of many a writer, the previous sentence might resemble a rhetorical firecracker. In Frazier's, it comes off as a statement of fact--which is only one of the reasons why every American, Native or not, should take a look at this sad, splendid, and surprisingly hopeful book. --James Marcus
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On the Rez is a sharp, unflinching account of the modern-day American Indian experience, especially that of the Oglala Sioux, who now live on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the plains and badlands of the American West. Crazy Horse, perhaps the greatest Indian war leader of the 1800s, and Black Elk, the holy man whose teachings achieved worldwide renown, were Oglala; in these typically perceptive pages, Frazier seeks out their descendants on Pine Ridge-a/k/a "the rez"-which is one of the poorest places in America today. Along with his longtime friend Le War Lance (whom he first wrote about in his 1989 bestseller, Great Plains) and other Oglala companions, Frazier fully explores the rez as they visit friends and relatives, go to pow-wows and rodeos and package stores, and tinker with a variety of falling-apart cars. He takes us inside the world of the Sioux as few writers ever have, writing with much wit, compassion, and imagination. In the career of SuAnne Big Crow, for example, the most admired Oglala basketball player of all time, who died in a car accident in 1992, Frazier finds a contemporary reemergence of the death-defying, public-spirited Sioux hero who fights with grace and glory to save her followers. On the Rez vividly portrays the survival, through toughness and humor, of a great people whose culture has helped to shape the American identity.
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In Ian Frazier's bestselling Great Plains, he described meeting a man in New York City named Le War Lance, "an Oglala Sioux Indian from Oglala, South Dakota." In On the Rez, Frazier returns to the plains and focuses on a place at their center -- the Pine Ridge Reservation in the prairie and badlands of South Dakota, home of the Oglala Sioux. Frazier drives around "the rez" with Le War Lance and other Oglalas as they tell stories, visit relatives, go to powwows and rodeos and package stores, and try to find parts to fix one or another of their on-the-verge-of-working cars. On the Rez considers Indian ideas of freedom and community and equality that are basic to how we view ourselves, and discusses also the oppressions of history in a place where the per capita income is the nation's lowest. Most of all, he examines the Oglala idea of heroism -- its suffering and its pulse-quickening, public-spirited glory. On the Rez portrays the survival, through toughness and humor, of a great people whose culture has shaped our American identity.
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Torn--Can't put it down, yet author slightly smug ..........2007-07-09
I could NOT put this book down--the people in the book were so intriguing and interesting. I think Frazier is an entertaining writer, but I agree with an earlier reviewer who called him "Smug"--It was like "I'm an important, superior white guy giving my precious time (and sometimes money) to come visit you lowly Indians" type feel .... it was uncomfortable at times. Although, in fairness, there are other times where it feels the Indians are "in on the joke" and take advantage of the author--which is quite funny. One fascinating gentleman (Lance) calls the author an "Indian wanna be" ... that says it all. Regardless, I learned A LOT and was thoroughly entertained and read the book in 2 days. Worth every penny!
The Old Indians, The Now Indians.......2007-03-08
On the Rez by Ian Frazier is easily the most fascinating and readable history of the American Indian, as they existed in the past and how their past has shaped their present. At first their present seems dismal, as Ian Frazier spent several years on and off the Pine Ridge Reservation of South Dakota and shows us the poverty, drunknness and generally confirming every unfortunate stereotype we've come to know. Through the peculiar friendship with an Oglala Sioux named Le War Lance, Ian transports us into the then and now and we realize the absolute power behind what seems destitute poverty. Frazier shows us the wealth of their culture and reminds us how they came to be where they are. Should it be any surprise they have become what the white culture has made them? And yet there is no doubt that they remain who they've always been. Frazier easily weaves in the cultural and political history with the nomadic wanderings of his friend Le who floats in and out of jail, befriends movie stars as easily as buddies down at the bar and survives countless car crashes, only to live to view them as a kind of frighteningly mystical experience. The book is tough and funny -- exactly like the people it portrays.
Could have been much better.......2005-07-27
I first heard about life on the "rez" from some Indian friends in the Army. They told me crazy stories about car accidents, shootings, and drunken brawls that apparently characterized much of the life on the rez. The author, Ian Fraizer, writes a little about these things, so at least that part of it rings true as it confirms what my friends told me.
My complaint about the book is that it is simply boring. It's as if Frazier found the most dull Indians he possibly could and wrote about their everyday lives. My life is dull too, but no one seems to want to write a book about it. The only slightly interesting person is Frazier's so called "friend," Le War Dance, who is a BS artist and asks for a handout everytime the two meet. If one of my "friends" demanded money to be my "friend," I might think twice about having him for a friend, but not Frazier. He seems to enjoy taking up the white man's burden and dispensing cash to his "friends" as if he is single-handedly trying to atone for the way Indians were screwed by us palefaces. Does it ever occur to him that these people are his "friends" because he is a steady source of income? I get the feeling that when Frazier and his Indian "friends" leave each others' company, both of them laugh at the other behind their back thinking how they used them for their own personal gain - Frazier with his book material, and the Indians with some free "beer money."
Frazier's writing often gets bogged down in so many unnecessary details, that I felt like he was trying to extend the manuscript simply to make it book length. I used this technique myself when I was a child in grade school and had to write 100 word essays. I would inevitably use the word "very" to flesh out the paper to the required length - "I enjoy playing baseball very much. It is a very rewarding game to play, etc."
One thing I can't stand about books about Indians is the inevitable word "mystical" that is applied to their lives. They supposedly have this attachment to nature and the spirit world that the rest of us just can't seem to attain, which is a crock. Indians are no more mystical than I am. Whenever somebody dies on the rez, there always seems to have been premonitions or medicine man warnings that their time was up, but strangely, these mystical warnings never save the doomed person. Maybe because it's all lies just like all religions are?
Finally, the only other major story in this book is his adulation and bizarre obsession with a teenage Indian girl who was a popular kid and died young in a car accident. He foolishly believes everything her family and friends say about her and relates her story as fact when it is mostly just made up to make her seem larger than life. Every neighborhood has a popular kid who inspires others, so I don't see why this particular girl had such an impact on Frazier.
Ultimately, this book is not about Indians on the rez, it is about Frazier on the rez, which is not an exciting topic to read about.
Highly recommended account of people, not stereotypes.......2005-07-08
I can't say enough good things about this book. It was wonderful to read as well as haunting me for days afterward.
The "rez" of the title is the Pine Ridge Reservation of the Oglala Sioux. The book deals with the Oglala Sioux both on the rez and in scattered other places, as far away as New York and New Jersey. He includes some history and "historical" characters up through Russell Means and Dennis Banks.
There are two stars in the book: his friend Le War Lance, and the basketball star SuAnne Big Crow. Le is a lovable ne'er-do-well who serves as Frazier's (and our) guide to the Sioux and to Pine Ridge. Big Crow, whom Frazier never met, serves as a background hero and her story an unfolding tragedy.
More than anything, the book is about people and not about having any ideological axe to grind. Many of his acquaintances are alcoholics and/or unemployed. Frazier acknowledges what most people would call both "social forces" and "individual responsibility" in explaining these cliched problems. He also sees the "nobility" and "sense of freedom" that represent more positive cliches, but again he doesn't overemphasize them. In short, he neither whitewashes nor praises effusively, but he is at root simply interested in the experiences of the Oglala people both on and off the reservation. Frazier loves his friends on the reservation but finds some of them frustrating.
Some people might not like the results. For example, many of Frazier's acquaintances hit him up for money; as a result, he always loads up on twenties before visiting Pine Ridge. You might think this is a degrading detail, you might think that Frazier is a smug white man who wants everyone to know of his generosity, or perhaps you'd want him to turn down these requests so as not to compromise a writer's relationship with his subjects. Take your pick. But Frazier's matter-of-fact writing style lets you make up your own mind about him as well as his subjects.
For all its interest, this remains a book written by a white observer; if you'd like an excellent account of Pine Ridge by an insider, read Mary Crow Dog's "Lakota Woman."
Frazier is an very good observer of both detail and personality. Given the rich diversity of any community of people such as Pine Ridge, you feel as if you are riding along in his car, looking over his shoulder. Very highly recommended as a slice of America.
Should Be Titled "Smug White Man Visits the Reservation".......2005-06-08
This book invokes nearly as much disgust in me as the white harvesting crews in the 1980's who boasted of deftly disposing of their American Indian competition with bottles of cheap booze.
I didn't go into reading it with that expectation--Frazier skillfully drug it out of me over the course of a two day reading period, and I can only shake my head in wonderment at the reviewers--undoubtedly white--who give this glorified diary such high praise.
I kept awaiting Frazier to get past the egocentric slant that made nearly the entire book feel like a never-ending "Introduction" to some larger work. This is because Frazier tries to present himself as a benevolent and long suffering friend to a handful of Oglala Sioux; but his constant chronicling of every nickle he spent during the friendship--not to mention focusing on every drunken stagger, or boast; makes him come off as less a true friend than just another white man lookin' to make money off the reservation. (I also find his occasional "my bad" passages to be nothing more than self-serving attempts to deflect potential criticism.)
Where the real meat of the book lies, is in the chapters about SuAnne Big Crow. Frazier should have written a biography of her, instead of indulging himself in most of the other pages.
If you must purchase "On The Rez," might I suggest you check it out from your local library first?
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Plains Indians, A.D. 500-1500: The Archaeological Past of Historic Groups
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Know the people as they know themselves........2005-08-14
Karl Schlesier's book is a vital work of scholarship that draws together many views of people in the Plains for many centuries. Plains Indians is a must have for anyone's private collection on human habitation of the Great Plains in the last 2000 years. Students should have access to this scholarly documentation in every library on every campus.
Rarely do archeologists recognize an ethnic identity associated with dig sites that pre-date European occupancy of the Plains. The language links charted in the book are strong indications of the ethnicities present in the Great Plains for millennia.
I use this book every semester to lay the foundation for understanding the diversity of people present in the Plains for hundreds of generations. Plains Indians as edited by Dr. Karl Schlesier is outstanding and indispensable to ethnohistorical studies that recognize the ancestral lands of people living presently in the Great Plains.
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Through the interpretive lens of colonial theory, Jeffrey Ostler presents an original analysis of the tumultuous relationship between the Plains Sioux and the United States in the 1800s. He provides novel insights on well-known aspects of the Sioux story, such as the Oregon Trail, the deaths of "Crazy Horse" and "Sitting Bull", and the Ghost Dance, and offers an in-depth look at many lesser-known facets of Sioux history and culture. Paying close attention to Sioux perspectives of their history, the book demonstrates how the Sioux creatively responded to the challenges of U.S. expansion and domination, revealing simultaneously how U.S. power increasingly limited the autonomy of their communities as the century came to a close. Ostler's innovative analysis of the Plains Sioux culminates in a compelling reinterpretation of the events that led to the Wounded Knee massacre of December 29, 1890. History Department Head at the University of Oregon, Associate Professor Jeffrey Ostler has held honors such as the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship and has published articles in Western Historical Quarterly, Great Plains Quarterly, and Pacific Historical Review.
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- A fast horse helps a young Lakota boy enter manhood
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A fast horse helps a young Lakota boy enter manhood.......2005-08-02
When he begins his journey to manhood, a young Lakota boy is given a Gift Horse by his father, who had brought some new horses back from a trading visit with the Cheyenne. Flying Cloud names the horse Storm and the two become the best of friends. Storm is so fast that the boy is named Flying Cloud by the people. The two play games together and when Flying Cloud becomes lost in a raging prairie blizzard it is Storm that gets him home. Most of this story tells of not only the adventures of Flying Cloud and Storm, but also of what it was like for a young Lakota boy preparing to enter manhood. The climax of the story comes when a group of Crow, the enemies of the Lakota, steal most of the horses from Flying Cloud's tribe, including Storm.
S. D. Nelson is a member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe in the Dakotas, and Flying Cloud was the name of his great-great grandfather. In an extensive Author's Note in the back of "Gift Horse," Nelson explains about the history of the Lakota (including how history books ended up calling them the Sioux instead) and focuses on the importance of horses in the culture of the Plains Indians and the rite of passage by which a Lakota boy entered manhood. For young readers who are interesting in finding out more about these subjects, Nelson gives them plenty to look over before they go on to other books or start searching the Internet.
The colorful artwork is done in acrylic paint on a wood panel and is based on the ledger book drawings done by Plains Indian artists done between 1865 and 1935. The bold illustrations will capture the attention of young readers, but the story is impressive as well, especially in terms of how it depicts the life of a young Lakota boy. "Gift Horse" is Nelson's first children's book and since this came out in 1999 he has added "The Star People: A Lakota Story." He has also illustrated other children's book as well, most notably "Crazy Horse's Visions" and "Jim Thorpe's Brightest Path."
A Moving, Gorgeous Book.......2004-04-26
This is a beautifully told and illustrated story inspired by the author's great-great grandfather, a Lakota Indian named Flying Cloud. In the story, Flying Cloud earns his name from the way he stirs up dust as he flies across the Plains on Storm, his horse. The relationship between boy and horse inspires several adventures: they get lost in a storm, they hunt buffalo, and when Storm is stolen by Crow horse thieves, Flying Cloud must rescue her. But this is more than the story of a boy and his horse. Nelson also concentrates on Flying Cloud's desire to prove himself and become a great Lakota Warrior. Different aspects of the lifestyle of Plains Indians are depicted, including the buffalo hunt, the sweat lodge, and the vision quest. The illustrations are particularly beautiful, and the writing is both spare and poetic. Highly recommended!
An ageless story of growing up........2000-04-17
S.D. Nelson's book The Gift Horse is a beautiful story of a young boy's coming of age. The story teaches values of becoming a man that include all nationalities. The illistrations are breath taking. The colors are vibrant and alive. Drawn in the traditional style supports the traditional way of the Native Americans. A new book is Crazy Horse, the Legend
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A brave boy goes into the hills and prays for help for his people. A rider on a magnificent animal comes to him and says: "This animal is called the Sacred Dog. He can do many things your dogs can do and also more...He is as the wind: gentle but sometimes frightening." The clouds close and suddenly one by one countless Sacred Dogs course down from the sky. And so the courage of one determined boy is rewarded by the Great Spirit: The horse, or Sacred Dog, is given to his tribe.
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Crazy Visions in the Sky.......2007-03-12
Man, I love anything with crazy visions in the sky - particularly the first chapter of the Biblical book Ezekiel - but the vision in this book is a neat thing to read about too. I just don't get why the buffalo was referenced at the end. Must be a Native American custom to end all stories with some mentioning of a buffalo.
I'm sorry to say I still like non-sacred dogs more than sacred dogs, but I have a very good reason for doing so. Sacred dogs are much more expensive.
Great.......2006-03-15
I loved this book when I was little, and I still love it now. It's great to see that it's still around. It's a wonderful story with even better illustrations for children and adults.
Beautifully illustrated Native American tale........1999-08-04
Children and adults will enjoy the colorful illustrations and tale of how the Native Americans acquired the horse. Lovely!
Book Description
Fourteen-year-old Francis Tucket is heading west on the Oregon Trail with his family by wagon train. When he receives a rifle for his birthday, he is thrilled that he is being treated like an adult. But Francis lags behind to practice shooting and is captured by Pawnees. It will take wild horses, hostile tribes, and a mysterious one-armed mountain man named Mr. Grimes to help Francis become the man who will be called Mr. Tucket.
Customer Reviews:
Mr.Tucket.......2006-11-29
The book I read was Mr. Tucket the author is Gary Paulsen, the publishing date is 1994. I rate this book a 10 because, it always kept you wondering, and it kept getting better and better. It was also good because, this guy in the middle of the book came and rescued Mr.Tucket. Then the chapter ended right at a great part so I wanted to keep reading it.
western story.......2006-11-20
Mr. Tuckett
What I liked about this book is that it was full of action. What I did not like about this book is I would have liked to see if he makes it back to his family and who died in his wagon train. I think this book is good for ages 8 and up because there is a little violence. I give this book a 5 out of 5 stars.
Stevens Review.......2006-10-25
I thought that this was a great book. It was full of adventure and always kept me coming back for more when I closed the book. If you ever get a chance to read this book, do it, you will be glad you did.It's a nail-bitting book with new suprises around every corner!Hope you enjoy the book!
Mr. Tucket .......2006-03-25
The book is about a kid named Tucket. It takes place on a wagon train to California. For his birthday he is always moving to another place in the world. But this year they are going to California. But the next day it Tucket's Birthday so his mom made him a cake. Then he went to his dad out side the wagon train were he was controlling the horses. His dad got out a bra new shotgun made his size and had Tucket carved into the butt of the shotgun. His dad said he could try it out. So Tucket got out of the wagon train and loaded the gun. Boom!!!! The bullet hit a buffalo chip. Then a pack of Indians came and took him to the tribe. He tried to escape but they said, "If you try to escape we will cut of your hands. Then that night a guy on a hors with one arm said, "Come with me we are going to leave this place. So they left and escape.
When I read this book I gave it a 5 star. It was exciting and it was a cool adventure book.
I did not like how the Indians said, "I'll cut your arms off if you try to escape. But it was still really good. I loved how it was like an adventure and how he escapes. But the really cool part was when the guy shot his gun but he only had one arm. But he was really good.
Mr. Tucket (Francis Tucket Books).......2005-07-20
This is a great book for younmg readers. I teach special education in a junior high setting. My relunctant readers LOVE this book and the others in the series.
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Full Moon Stories
Eagle-Walking Turtle
Manufacturer: Hyperion
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
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Native North & South Americans
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| Ages 9-12
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ASIN: 0786821752 |
Customer Reviews:
Full Moon Stories.......2000-04-29
This book of stories is a rare treat to read. I couldn't get onto the next story fast enough. With each tale I was pulled straight into the home and at the knees of the storyteller, Grandpa Iron. I "became" one of his grandchildren, smudged by the cedar, leaning forward to hear every detail of the story about horse, moose, mole, swallow, and the nine other animals, one for each poetically descriptive Full Moon of the year such as "Moon of the Popping Trees" in December with turtle. I, like Grandpa Iron's grandchildren, relish and believe the stories! How hard it must have been for the children to wait one whole month for each new story.
I love the illustrations, both paintings and colored pencil drawings. They convey the character and movement of the animals so well. The colors are bright and entrancing; and the symbols painted on the animals are intriguing. They look so like the pictographs I have seen painted on hides in museums and reproduced from ledger books. There are stars, moon, lightning, mountains, the sun, and other ones which are yet a mystery to me.
As well as the stoies there are details of the children's and Grandpa and Grandma Iron's life on the Wind River Reservation: doing chores, packing to go to the Sundance, eating Grandma's stew and fry bread, and running barefoot in the snow. I have been to Wind River and could feel again through the book the vastness and intimacy of the land. This book is an outstanding model of how stories can be written and presented with enthusiasm for children.
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