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Sweetgrass

Living on the western Canadian prairie in the nineteenth century, Sweetgrass, a fifteen-year-old Blackfoot Indian girl, saves her family from a smallpox epidemic and proves her maturity to her father.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hudson, Jan, 1954-
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : PaperStar, 1999, c1984.
Subjects:	Siksika Indians > Young adult fiction. Indigenous peoples > America > Young adult fiction. Smallpox > Young adult fiction.
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Summary:	Living on the western Canadian prairie in the nineteenth century, Sweetgrass, a fifteen-year-old Blackfoot Indian girl, saves her family from a smallpox epidemic and proves her maturity to her father.
Item Description:	Previously published: New York : Philomel Books, 1989.
Physical Description:	159 p. ; 20 cm.
ISBN:	0698117638 : PAP
Author Notes:	Jan Hudson , a Canadian author of historical fiction, wrote two novels, Sweetgrass and Dawn Rider , both of which exemplify her interest in "social anthropology--the little things that make up most people's lives," as she stated in a 1989 Publishers Weekly interview with Bella Stander. She conveyed these details by using the history of the Blackfoot Nation as her background. Hudson's hope, more specifically, was to write about the lives of Canadian Indian women of the past who, in her opinion, had been ignored.