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Elementary Ages
Brandenburg, Jim. An American Safari. New York: Walker and Co., 1995.
Bruchac, John. Buffalo Song. New York: Lee and Low Books, 2008.
Craighead George, Jean. The Buffalo are Back. New York: Dutton Children’s Books, 2010.
Freedman, Russell. Buffalo Hunt. New York: Holiday House, 1988.
Goble, Paul. Buffalo Woman. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1984.
Goble, Paul. The Legend of the White Buffalo Woman. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1998.
Hazen-Hammond, Susan. Thunder Bear and Ko: The Buffalo Nation and Nambe Pueblo. New York: Dutton Children's Books, 1999.
Hoyt-Goldsmith, Diane. Buffalo Days. New York: Holiday House, 1997.
Lepthien, Emilie U. Buffalo. Chicago: Childrens Press, 1989.
Roop, Peter. The Buffalo Jump.. Flagstaff, AZ: Northland Publishing Company, 1996.
Swanson, Diane. Buffalo Sunrise: The Story of a North American Giant. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books for Children, 1996.
Middle School through Adult
Fitzgerald, David. Bison: Monarch of the Plains. Graphic Arts Center Pub. Co., 1998.
Geist, Valerius. Buffalo Nation: History and Legend of the North American Bison. Stillwater, Minn.: Voyageur Press, Inc., 1996.
Green, Rayna, with Melanie Fernandez. The British Museum Encylopaedia of Native North America. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1999.
Hogan Snell, Agnes. Grandmother’s Grandchild: My Crow Indian Life. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000.
Horse Capture, George. Robes of Splendor: Native American Painted Buffalo Hides. New York: New Press, 1993.
Isenberg, Andrew C. The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Standing Bear, Luther. My Indian Boyhood. Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, 1931 (re-printed in 1988).
Erdoes, Richard, and Alfonso Ortiz, eds. American Indian Myths and Legends. New York: Pantheon Books, 1984
Online Resources:
Stories of the Plains People, adapted by National Museum of American History staff:
http://americanhistory.si.edu/kids/buffalo/files/pdf/Stories_of_the_Plains_People.pdf
Lone Dog’s Winter Count Teaching Poster, National Museum of the American Indian:
http://nmai.si.edu/sites/1/files/pdf/education/poster_lone_dog_final.pdf
National Museum of the American Indian Collections Search:
http://www.americanindian.si.edu/searchcollections/home.aspx
Keeping History: Plains Indians Ledger Drawings, National Museum of American History:
http://americanhistory.si.edu/documentsgallery/exhibitions/ledger_drawing_1.html
Lakota Winter Counts, an online exhibition from the National Museum of Natural History:
http://wintercounts.si.edu/index.html
Lakota Winter Counts Teacher Resources:
http://wintercounts.si.edu/html_version/html/learningresources0_menu.htm
American Bison from the National Zoo:
http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/NorthAmerica/Facts/fact-bison.cfm
American Experience: Transcontinental Railroad, special feature on Native Americans
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/tcrr/sfeature/sf_interview.html
Lakota Legends from the Akta Lakota Museum & Cultural Center:
http://www.aktalakota.org/index.cfm?cat=54&artid=136
Buffalo Tales: The Near Extermination of the American Bison:
http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/tserve/nattrans/ntecoindian/essays/buffalo.htm
InterTribal Bison Cooperative, educational resources:
http://www.itbcbison.com/education/
