Lori is a quiet, contemplative bookworm. Lana is an outspoken adventuress. Different as they are, they are first cousins, sisters in the Lakota way. And when both befriend a Hmong girl new to their school, the discovery of a culture so strange to them and so rich with possibilities brings them together as never before in an experience of life and loss. As the girls learn of the moons of the Lakota calendar, they also learn that the circle of life is never broken, even when death comes to one of them. A simple story of friendship surviving a tragic year, this tale, steeped in Lakota lore, illuminates profound shared truths about the human spirit and those truths that are only and deeply our own.
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Lana's Lakota Moons
Lori is a quiet, contemplative bookworm. Lana is an outspoken adventuress. Different as they are, they are first cousins, sisters in the Lakota way. And when both befriend a Hmong girl new to their school, the discovery of a culture so strange to them and so rich with possibilities brings them together as never before in an experience of life and loss. As the girls learn of the moons of the Lakota calendar, they also learn that the circle of life is never broken, even when death comes to one of them. A simple story of friendship surviving a tragic year, this tale, steeped in Lakota lore, illuminates profound shared truths about the human spirit and those truths that are only and deeply our own.
Lori is a quiet, contemplative bookworm. Lana is an outspoken adventuress. Different as they are, they are first cousins, sisters in the Lakota way. And when both befriend a Hmong girl new to their school, the discovery of a culture so strange to them and so rich with possibilities brings them together as never before in an experience of life and loss. As the girls learn of the moons of the Lakota calendar, they also learn that the circle of life is never broken, even when death comes to one of them. A simple story of friendship surviving a tragic year, this tale, steeped in Lakota lore, illuminates profound shared truths about the human spirit and those truths that are only and deeply our own.
Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve is a well-known author of stories and essays about Native American life and culture and a recipient of the National Humanities Medal. She is the author of Grandpa Was a Cowboy and an Indian and Other Stories and The Trickster and the Troll, both available in Bison Books editions. Her memoir, Completing the Circle (Nebraska 1995) won the North American Indian Prose Award.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments vii Lakota Moons viii Moon When Winter Sets In 1 Moon When Deer Shed Their Antlers 13 Moon When There Is Frost inside the Lodge 23 Moon When the Geese Return 33 Moon When the Leaves Turn Green 43 Moon When the Berries Are Ripe 51 Moon of New Names 63 Moon When the Buffalo Run 77 Moon When the Leaves Blow Off 89 Moon of the Hats 97 Moon of the Dance 103 Moon of the Terrible 111
