Sweetgrass

Hudson, Jan

ISBN 10: 0889670765 / ISBN 13: 9780889670761

Published by Tree Frog Press, Edmonton, AB, Canada, 1984

About this Item

Good condition. Moderate wear. Binding fairly tight, pages age toned. Pen markings inside. Pictures available upon request.? dw.

Seller Inventory # 123010

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sweetgrass
• Publisher: Tree Frog Press, Edmonton, AB, Canada
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0889670765
• ISBN 13: 9780889670761
• Binding: softcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Children's Books

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.