author website
For Buffalo Bill’s birthday, click on the link below to watch Wild West Show parade down 
the street in 1902. Both he and Annie Oakley play a role in Red Dove, Tell Truth to Darkness, coming soon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=BE7fYA7coh8
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UNLADYLIKE 2020, on PBS, includes a wonderful short film about Zitkala Sa, or Red Bird, the inspiration for the character of Red Dove. Her birthday is this week. From PBS:
https://unladylike2020.com/profile/zitkala-sa/
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It’s 1891 and fourteen-year-old Red Dove tours Europe with with Annie Oakley in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show. In book one of the trilogy, Red Dove, Listen to the Wind, Grandfather’s medicine pouch taught her to listen–now she must find the courage to speak her truth. With art by Andrew Bosley, here’s the new cover!
Coming Spring 2021: Book 2 of the Trilogy
the exciting sequel to
Red Dove, Listen to the Wind
It’s 1891 and fourteen-year-old Red Dove joins survivors of the tragedy of Wounded Knee to tour Europe with Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show. In Red Dove, Listen to the Wind, her Lakota grandfather’s medicine pouch taught her the value of empathy. Now, in book two of the trilogy, she must find the courage to face injustice—and speak her truth.
Red Dove, Listen to the Wind has been shortlisted for the Reading the West Young Adult Fiction award. Voting starts April 20–details to follow. So excited!
“Historical fiction that does not shy away from the terror and famine experienced by the Lakotas, late 1890. Indian folklore, mysticism, family dynamics all enrich this story.”
—Ann Lacefield, Macdonald’s Bookshop
