in the words of the Dakota people who lived it

Simon Pendagayosh and Carolina Shaugobay meet outside a variety store on a Saturday trip to town while attending St

while always maintaining eye contact

The book deftly contextualizes the first encounters with Europeans

Circle of Wonder: A Native American Christmas Story Ho-Chunk in the words of theThe boy, the bird, and the beasts made a circle of wonder and good will around the real gift of fire, and beyond them were other wider circles, made of the meadow, the mountains, and the starry sky, all the fires and processions, all the voices and silences of all the world. . . . His spirit wheeled above the great meadow and the mountains, his loneliness was borne with the wild strength of a great elk, and he sang of his whole being with a voice that