Passage to Little Bighorn

By Terry Kretzer-Malvehy

Book Overview

Fifteen-year-old Dakota, who has Lakota blood in him, is hurled back through time to meet his ancestor Sitting Bull and witness the massacre at the Battle of Little Bighorn. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0873587138
• ISBN13: 9780873587136
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Rising Moon Books
• Length: 217 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.2" x 6.8"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Passage To Little Bighorn will knock your socks off!

I love this book! It was very interesting and I couldn't put it down.It is about a boy named Dakota and he is half Lakota and half Irish. He is walking home from visiting the Little Bighorn battle site and gets thrown back into time. He meets the great ledgend, Sitting Bull and all of his family! Dakota is confued about his being half Lakota and half Irish and feels angry that he is mixed. He is captured by two Lakota boys and is shot with their arrow! They capture him and take him back to their camp! He trys to get aways many times but is always captured! The Lakota are very interested in him because he is not all Lakota! He proves he is good at riding a horse by the great pony race! He also participates in the great Sundance ritural and steals Crow enemy horses! He is getting to know his people and their languageand forgets to try to leave!I liked the childs eye view of life! And how he accomplishes tasks that make him grow to br a very stong and mature young man! The end is the best part but you will have to read it to find out!!!!!

The book illuminates family and belonging as well as history

In short, I loved this book. The central character is a teenager who is easy to relate to. He is caught between two cultures and his own internal conflicts as a young boy becoming a man. This might not seem like a unique theme but the atmosphere of the book combined with the historical value as we relive Little Bighorn is invaluable. I think we are always learning about how we see family and how we fit into that picture and the wisdom in this book is beautiful.