Runs With Courage

by Joan M. Wolf

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781585369850
Publisher:	Sleeping Bear Press
Publication date:	02/01/2017
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.80(d)
Lexile:	680L (what's this?)
Age Range:	10 - 11 Years

About the Author

Joan M. Wolf is both a teacher and an author. She considers herself lucky to have found a way to be able to work with both of her passions: teaching and writing. After receiving her MFA in Creative Writing from Hamline University, she began publishing fiction. The idea for Runs with Courage, her first Sleeping Bear Press book, was sparked by a childhood spent exploring the beautiful forests of the Black Hills of South Dakota. In the summers, she walks along the many lakes of Minnesota, and in the cold winters, she enjoys spinning her own yarn from wool on her spinning wheel and creating intricate Ukrainian (Pysanky) eggs. Currently Joan lives in Minnesota with her two very literary cats, Franz (named after Franz Kafka) and Nadeje (Czech word meaning “hope”).

Table of Contents

Beginning Arrival Brave School Learning Bridge Dance Truth Punishment Running Journey Home Decision Renewal Snow Winter Count Counting Coup Gifts Laughing Deer Christmas Spirit Box Realization Understanding Choice Spring Runs with Courage Epilogue Author's Note About the Author