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Grandma's Tipi
Grandma's Tipi: A Present-Day Lakota Story | S. D. Nelson
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A young girl spends the summer at her grandmothers home on the Standing Rock Reservation in this heartwarming family story from acclaimed author-artist S. D. Nelson Now that Clara is almost in third grade, shes finally old enough to spend her first summer away from home visiting her grandma, Unci, and her cousin at their home in Standing Rock Reservation. To welcome her visit, Uncle Louie brings an extra-special surprise in his pickup truck: the tipi thats been passed down through their family for generations. The girls learn how to stack the poles and wrap the canvas covering around them, how to paint spirit pictures on its walls, and how the circle of the tipi tells its own story, reminding us to how to live in the great Circle of Life. Over long days spent playing outside, doing beadwork together, telling stories, singing songs, and sleeping under the stars, the tipi brings the family closer together. As summer draws to an end, goodbye comes all too soon, but Clara will always cling to the memories of summer days and starry nights . . . and Grandmas tipi.
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#StorySettings Day 30: In the Author‘s Afterword, Nelson mentioned how the United States government “forced all the Indian tribes onto reservations” leaving them no choice but to give up living in tipis and to live in #CabinOrCampground and woodframe houses instead. Hence, the setting up of Grandma‘s tipi is symbolic. My full feature: https://wp.me/pDlzr-qnb

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