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Hidden Buffalo

Sky Running is looking for buffalo. All day he has looked but he has seen none.

Sky Running and his Cree people have roamed the prairie all summer, searching for the great buffalo herds that will provide food for the coming winter. But they find none, and they grow desperate with hunger. Sky Running knows he is not old enough yet to ride with the hunters, but he wants to help. He carefully scans the horizon from the high hill his people call The Nose. He looks west and south and east to the bright flash of Sounding Lake. But nothing moves. Why have the plains hidden the great herds? How will Sky Running and his people survive the winter?

In this lyrical coming-of-age story, Governor General's Award-winner Rudy Wiebe captures the anxiety of a boy who feels powerless to help his people, but who must speak his dreams if they are to survive. Steeped in aboriginal myth and lore, Hidden Buffalo is also the tale of how a whole tribe can turn its gaze from the horizon to see to the wisdom of a child.

Original paintings by noted Cree artist Michael Lonechild capture the colorful palette of the prairie landscape in autumn and the rich detail of Cree life in the late nineteenth century.

ISBN: 0-88995-285-X
Author: Rudy Wiebe
Illustrated by: Michael Lonechild
Price: $19.95

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