Lost Bird of Wounded Knee: Spirit of the Lakota - Paperback

$23.99

Lost Bird of Wounded Knee: Spirit of the Lakota - Paperback

Name: Lost Bird of Wounded Knee: Spirit of the Lakota - Paperback
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SKU: 9781476790756
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by Renee Sansom Flood

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by Renee Sansom Flood (Author)

This "powerful and chilling" (Publishers Weekly) account of a young girl taken from her native land in South Dakota after the 1890 massacre of Lakota men, women, and children describes the story of Lost Bird and the destruction of life for a Native American orphan being raised as a white child outside of her tribe.

When Lost Bird was found alive as an infant under the frozen body of her dead mother following the December 1980 massacre at Wounded Knee, a general from the U.S. Seventh Cavalry made the choice to adopt her. While the general, Leonard W. Colby, who would later become the Assistant Attorney General of the United States, swore to provide Lost Bird with a good life, his true meaning of adopting the Native American infant was to exploit her to bring in prominent tribes to his law firm.

After growing up a lonely child with no true meaning of belonging, Lost Bird lived a brief but harsh life filled with sexual abuse, painful marriages, tribe rejection, and prostitution before she died at young age of twenty-nine.

In the words of a former social worker that was instrumental in the moving of Lost Bird's remains from an unmarked grave in California to her homeland at Wounded Knee, Lost Bird of Wounded Knee is a remarkable biography examining the life of woman who became a symbol of the warring culture that entrapped her. Through the story of Lost Bird's life, Flood sheds light on the heartbreaking microcosm of the Native American children who have lost their heritage through adoption, social injustice, and war.

Author Biography

Renee Sansom Flood is a historian, educator, and award-winning author of Lost Bird of Wounded Knee.

Number of Pages: 392

Dimensions: 1.2 x 9.1 x 6.1 IN

Publication Date: May 24, 2014

Accelerated Reader:

Quiz Name: Lost Bird of Wounded Knee: Spirit of the Lakota

Interest Level: Upper Grades, 9-12

Reading Level: 8.6

Point Value: 23

ISBN	9781476790756
Author	Renee Sansom Flood
Publisher	Scribner Book Company
Genre	Biography and History
Format	Paperback
Published	May 2014
Language	ENG- English
Pages	392
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Teens & young adults
Print Size	Standard Print