Birth of a New Race: Poems for a Dead Storyteller

Description:

A grandmother from Sioux Indian country in the late 1800s still has things to teach her great grandchildren in the 21st century. One family's personal story combines with Wisconsin history and traditional Lakota tales through narrative poems written for children and adults alike. Take a poetic journey that covers over a hundred years to places like Trader's Bayou, Rosebud Reservation, and Old Fortune House in Mukwa, Wisconsin. Learn how these places have contributed to the birth of a new race around the world, especially for this family whose journey extends all the way to Siberia and back to North America. Awarded a prize in poetry by the Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters, you can also follow this family's true life story through the author's other books which include "Siberian Pearls: A Buryat Journey" and "The Buryat Journey Continues Overland: Siberian Pearls at Culture Camp."

subjects: poetry,  Sioux Indians,  family,  nature

Places: Rosebud Reservation,  Trader's Bayou-Wisconsin

Times: late 1800s to present