The Gift of the Great Buffalo

ISBN

9781547606887

Publisher & Publication Year

Bloomsbury, 2025

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Author

Carole Lindstrom (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe)

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Illustrator

Aly McKnight (Shoshone-Bannock)

Synopsis

Summary

Rose is a young Métis-Ojibwe girl who has traveled far with her family for the biannual buffalo hunt made up of hundreds of other Métis families. The ritual of the hunt has been practiced for generations, and each hunt must see the community through the next six months. But in recent years, the buffalo population has dwindled, and after days on the hunt, there are no buffalo to be found. Can Rose help her family find the herd that will enable them to survive the long winter?

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Publishers Weekly: "[An] engaging account of prairie life."

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