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Bear Dancer
The Story of a Ute Girl
By Wyss, Thelma Hatch
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- ISBN
- 978-1-41690-285-0
- Publisher
- McElderry
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on October 1, 2005
Gr 5-8 This fascinating story is based on a real person, Elk Girl, who lived during a time of great upheaval and loss of tradition. Wyss describes in vivid detail life among the Ute people of the early 1860s, including their loss of hunting lands and traditional ways at the hands of white settlers and laws. During the years in which the novel is set, the teen is captured by the Cheyenne and later trad...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on January 1, 2006
Elk Girl was a Tabeguache Ute, born in 1845 in Colorado. In a well-structured, vivid narrative Wyss offers a fictional account of this historical figure's experiences over four years, beginning with her fifteenth summer. Elk Girl is captured and enslaved by hostile Cheyenne, who later trade her to the Arapaho "for a sack of wormy treaty flour." When she's finally rescued, it's not by her own tribe but by the enemy of Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Ute alik...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
