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The Return of the Buffaloes: A Plains Indian Story about Famine and Renewal of the Earth
by
Paul Goble
Sacred to the Plains Indians, buffaloes provide almost all the people need to live and flourish on the Great Plains. When the buffalo cannot be found, scouts are sent to look for them...
By telling about a time of hardship, Paul Goble dramatizes the central importance of the buffalo to a vibrantly spiritual and artistic culture. He pictures the vastness of the empty plains
...morePaperback, 32 pages
Published
August 1st 2002
by National Geographic Children's Books
(first published 1996)
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When it was written in 1996, the author had lived in the Black Hills of South Dakota for 13 years, and it is from the tradition of the Lakota natives that he draws this story. An ancient legend, it tells about one spring when the buffalo herds did not return to their traditional pastures. With the tribe starving, two young men are sent on one final search for the buffalo. As they are about to give up, the meet the Buffalo Woman, an Earth spirit who promises to send the herds to the tribe. The...more
Another great read from Paul Goble, but I think he has done better work.
a nativie american mythological story
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Paul Goble is an award winning author and illustrator of children's books. He has won both the Caldecott Medal and The Library of Congress' Children's Book of the Year Award.
To date, Mr. Goble has illustrated over 30 books. He has given his entire collection of original illustrations to the South Dakota Art Museum in Brookings, South Dakota.
Goble, a native of England, studied at the Ce...more
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To date, Mr. Goble has illustrated over 30 books. He has given his entire collection of original illustrations to the South Dakota Art Museum in Brookings, South Dakota.
Goble, a native of England, studied at the Ce...more
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