Native American History

S. D. Nelson creates a visually stunning retelling of a teaching from his Lakota tradition.

Sister Girl and her brother, Young Wolf, wander out onto the prairie where they see the Cloud People floating in the vast sky above them.

After a harrowing escape from a prairie fire, the children reconnect with their beloved grandmother, Elk Tooth Woman, who had passed away the previous spring, and now, as an ancestor, was dwelling among the Star People, “the spirts of the Old Ones who once walked this earth”.

Vibrant illustrations by Nelson, done in the style of Native American ledger art, make this children’s picture book a luminous teaching story.