The Sacred White Turkey

by Frances A. Washburn and Frances Washburn

Book Overview

There is nothing particularly noteworthy about an Easter turkey. But when the turkey is stark white and appears on Easter Sunday on the doorstep of a Lakota medicine woman and her teenage granddaughter, it is clearly out of the ordinary. Taking turns, Stella and her grandmother, Hazel Latour, tell the story of what follows as the mysterious turkey stirs up discord on the reservation, where some greet it as wakan, holy and sacred because of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803228465
• ISBN13: 9780803228467
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.5"