the story of the Oglala Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863–1950) and his people during momentous twilight years of the nineteenth century

and the beauty and despair woven into the history of a nation and its people

Through the words of long-ago witnesses

Eldon offers his son a world the boy has never seen

Flight of the Hummingbird: A Parable for the Environment language studies the story of the OglalaHummingbirds have long been a symbol of wisdom and courage. In this charming story, a hummingbird makes a valiant effort to put out a raging fire that threatens her forest home trip after trip, her beak is filled each time with just a drop of water. Her efforts show her woodland companions that doing something anything is better than doing nothing at all. The hummingbird parable, which originates with the Quechuan people of South America, has become a