This courageous book challenges the assumptions of a white patriarchal eurocentric dominant society. While corporations continue to destroy the enviornment while at the same time enforcing the poverty of People of Color, this book offers instead a brilliant discourse, an investigation of the noble spiritual traditions of the Sioux. This is an important book.

Best Of The Best From The Great Plains Cookbook compiles its recipes from 88 cookbooks drawn from North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas. From a non-alcoholic Hot Buttered Rum to Mexican Ice Cream, this impressive, highly recommended compendium offers up wonderful selections for any family meal time or celebratory dining occasion. Of special interest to cookbook enthusiasts is the extensive listing of titles for the entire "Best of the Best" cookbook series from Quail Ridge Press.

It's a real shame that this book is now out of print. I have been told that the illustrator is still kicking around in South Dakota, but no one can find the author. Everything that anyone could want to know about South Dakota's history and the colorful characters that comprise it is here to look at. Calamity Jane, Deadwood Dick, David Volk, Mamie Van Doren, Wild Bill Hickock, Lawrence Welk and Hubert H. Humphrey are all featured. A great way to get kids interested in South Dakota history.

Watson Parker's book is a wonderful reference to use to understand the frenetic development of the Black Hills during its Gold Rush days. It also goes on to show the coming and going of little towns throughout the Black Hills. It is well organized and can easily lend itself to spending a day or more driving through the hills trying to find the remnants of the ghost towns. It is a book that I have gone back to year after year to learn about the Black Hills.

This book is so cool !!! It is very educational yet very good also, I would recommend this book to anyone out there.This book is a real page-turner.I also think this author has a lot of potential

Teen Kate's mother died four years ago as the victim of a drunk driver, and her family has never been the same. The driver has been in jail; now he's released with a new start on life - until a blizzard brings them all together and forces them all to interact. Can Kate ever overcome her intense anger to heal? The author does an exceptional job of presenting perspectives of events from all sides in Blizzard's Wake.

This novel, it must be said, is not quite as good as Wiowode's finest, 'Beyond the Bedroom Wall.' But Wiowode's second best is anyone else's excellent. As North Dakota's poet, Wiowode uses prose in stark, image-packed lines to tell the story of two brothers, their respective roads through triumph and tragedy. Though Wiowode is a Christian (Presbyterian), he doesn't flinch as his characters grapple with homosexuality and even sibling experimentation. Alchoholism, a factor in Wiowode's own life, also plays a role, as does the uncharacteristic (for a modern novel) love of parents found almost solely in Wiowode. This is a beautifully-crafted book, a story about faith, sin, lostness, and love. Redemptive, yes. But not cheaply so. Highest recommendation.

This is a sturdy hardcover book 32 pages in length. Not only is this book well illustrated, accurate, and most informative but it teaches lessons that any of us could afford to learn (or re-learn!). Author Peter Murray gently tells the life story and adventures of "Slow" in a manner that DOES NOT turn young readers off to History. His choice of words entices his audience, young or old, to turn "just one more" page. As a homeschooling Mother of six I especially appreciate the review questions & answers, the helpful study guide, and the time line. I have already incorporated this book, and the rest of the series, into our schooling regimae.

I can't imagine an eight-year old more talented or beautiful than the young Laura Hughes. The rich textures and lovely colors of her illustrations are a delight to the eye, but the finest part of this elegantly constructed narrative is the clever, subtle way it tackles gender stereotypes in mid-90s America under the mask of 19th century Native American culture. Since this book, Laura Hughes has become a daring young artist, a prolific playwright, and a world-renowned webmistress, as well as a graceful and charismatic young woman; the seeds of her talent are apparent in this fine freshman effort.

I've been looking for more novels by Doane for years now. This, to my knowledge is his last and its a pity for readers. There is an intelligence, honesty, freshness and skill to his works that was unique, identifiable and very satisfying. Story telling with craft, writing with art and emotion -why isn't this gut famous and why did he stop writing fiction?