Shifting Stars

Skye, a young half-Scottish woman, searches for her lost Lakota ancestors as she embarks on an odyssey that takes her back to the taboo past and into the unsure future of 1850 Wyoming. Reprint.

Skye Macdonald, daughter of a Scottish father and a Lakota Indian mother, grows to adulthood feeling alienated from both cultures. The death of her mother when Skye is seven and the resulting withdrawal of her father enhance her feelings of isolation. When father and daughter rejoin the Lakota tribe in the late 1840s, hunters, government treaties, wagon trains, and other signs of white civilization have created resentment and distrust among the Lakota that is projected onto Skye. It is her grandmother, closely guarding the secret of her own parentage, who teaches Skye the Lakota ways. Lambert (In Search of Kinship, LJ 5/1/96) has written a powerful story of the Plains Indians at a time when generations of traditions are being challenged by outside forces. She has packed it with facts about Indian life and customs and tempered it with love and family loyalty that personalize the story for the general fiction reader. Highly recommended.?Thomas L. Kilpatrick, Southern Illinois Univ. Lib., Carbondale
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