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Elementary Ages

Brandenburg, Jim. An American Safari. New York: Walker and Co., 1995.

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.

Lepthien, Emilie U. Buffalo. Chicago: Childrens Press, 1989.

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.

Horse Capture, George. Robes of Splendor: Native American Painted Buffalo Hides. New York: New Press, 1993.

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


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