Books with title Cape Buffalo

"A powerful tribute to a majestic animal!" The Buffalo was a way of life for the Indians of the Great Plains. It provided the tribes with food, fuel, and clothing - all their basic needs. The first Americans celebrated the buffalo's sacred spirit with ceremonies, prayers, and songs. The buffalo taught that all living things, including humans, are equal in the natural world. The American Indian is of the soil, whether it be the region of forests, plains, pueblos, or mesas. He fits into the landscape, for the hand that fashioned the continent also fashioned the man for his surroundings. He once grew as naturally as the wild sunflowers; he belongs just as the buffalo belonged.... - Oglala Sioux chief Beverly Brodsky's watercolors and oil paintings accompany tribal song-poems woven into a narrative history about the buffalo's essential and sacred role on the Plains. Her book is a powerful tribute to a majestic animal, tracing the history of the buffalo from the beginning of time to present day. Beverly Brodsky reveived a Caldecott Honour for her earlier work, the Golem. Her magnificent paintings and text in Buffalo have also reveived many awards, including: ASPCA Henry R. Bergh Children's Book Honor Winner, 2004 Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2004 Best Children's Books of the Year (Outstanding Merit) - Bank Street College, 2004

"A powerful tribute to a majestic animal!" The Buffalo was a way of life for the Indians of the Great Plains. It provided the tribes with food, fuel, and clothing - all their basic needs. The first Americans celebrated the buffalo's sacred spirit with ceremonies, prayers, and songs. The buffalo taught that all living things, including humans, are equal in the natural world. The American Indian is of the soil, whether it be the region of forests, plains, pueblos, or mesas. He fits into the landscape, for the hand that fashioned the continent also fashioned the man for his surroundings. He once grew as naturally as the wild sunflowers; he belongs just as the buffalo belonged.... - Oglala Sioux chief Beverly Brodsky's watercolors and oil paintings accompany tribal song-poems woven into a narrative history about the buffalo's essential and sacred role on the Plains. Her book is a powerful tribute to a majestic animal, tracing the history of the buffalo from the beginning of time to present day. Beverly Brodsky reveived a Caldecott Honour for her earlier work, the Golem. Her magnificent paintings and text in Buffalo have also reveived many awards, including: ASPCA Henry R. Bergh Children's Book Honor Winner, 2004 Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2004 Best Children's Books of the Year (Outstanding Merit) - Bank Street College, 2004

In the weeks following his father’s disappearance in northern Afghanistan, Trey Jackson finds himself feeling more adrift than ever before, the feeling made worse by the fact that his mother has decided―without really consulting him at all―to rent out their home (his room included) in San Diego, in order to spend the summer in Albuquerque, “nowheresville” New Mexico. They’re needed, she told him, to help take care of his aging great uncle Grayson who’s recently suffered a debilitating stroke ... Told through the alternating perspectives of 13 year-old Trey, his mother Meredith, his great uncle Grayson, his newfound friend and neighbor Gonzo, and a centuries-old Minotaur, Buffalo is the story of four generations of African American men fighting in American wars. Dating back to the American Indian Wars, the story turns on the family’s complex military legacy, its toll on their present-day life, and the powerful role the imagination, particularly Uncle Grayson’s, plays in helping Trey come to terms with his father’s absence and the painful uncertainty it provokes.