Kathy Day Faulkner

She Asked Crazy Horse Why Kathy Day Faulkner

Gallop across prairies with a daring ten-year-old Lakota girl, laugh at her misadventures, cringe at her narrow escapes from disaster. Experience Lone Moon's daily life, enjoying the freedoms of childhood while simultaneously learning principles of becoming a good Lakota woman. Witness a Sun Dance ceremony, discover gold, charge through buffalo hunts. Confront death, birth, and bloody soldier attacks. Glimpse another side of fierce warrior, Crazy Horse, as he struggles to lead his people through turbulent times.

"Why are white soldiers and pioneers invading our ancestral Dakota Territory? Why must our lives change? Why can't everyone live in peace?"

Lone Moon has many questions about all that is changing in her world. Does her older, wiser cousin, Crazy Horse, have the answers?

A factual-based resource to supplement middle grades Social Studies curricula. Glossary contains translation of Lakota words used in story.