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By G. Clifton Wisler

Mastincala, the Rabbit Boy, is born in a tumultuous and unsure time for his humans, the Lakota. he's yet a boy whilst his father is killed throughout the conflict among the Lakota and Colonel Harney’s military at Rosebud, and he vows to avenge his father’s loss of life.

Mastincala joins loopy Horse and the Oglala on their rides opposed to the Crow, scuffling with opposed to the encroachment and overhunting of massive Horn state. He earns the identify Tacante, Buffalo center, for his braveness in the course of one relatively fierce conflict, and sheds his softer boyhood character. while gold is stumbled on within the sacred Black Hills, a chain of unstoppable occasions is determined in motion—culminating within the bloody bloodbath at Little great Horn. in the middle of the turmoil, Mastincala needs to make a decision tips on how to forge a destiny for his kinfolk whereas protecting the distinction and culture of his ancestors.

Lakota vividly info the fight of the Lakota humans opposed to the white guy for regulate in their searching grounds, and provides a relocating, bittersweet portrait of the interval that marked the tip of a lifestyle for the Plains Sioux.

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