Authors

S. D. Nelson

S. D. Nelson is a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in the Dakotas. He is the award-winning author and illustrator of a number of books, including Crazy Horse and Custer, Red Cloud, Sitting Bull, Black Elk’s Vision (winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Storyteller Award and named a Chicago Public Library Best of the Best), and many more. He lives in Flagstaff, Arizona.

Walking on Earth and Touching the Sky

Poetry and Prose by Lakota Youth at Red Cloud Indian School

Edited by Timothy P. McLaughlin, paintings by S. D. Nelson, foreword by Joseph Marshall III

Crazy Horse and Custer

Born Enemies

By S. D. Nelson

Red Cloud

A Lakota Story of War and Surrender

Written and illustrated by S. D. Nelson

Sitting Bull

Lakota Warrior and Defender of His People

By S. D. Nelson

Digging a Hole to Heaven

Coal Miner Boys

By S. D. Nelson

Buffalo Bird Girl

A Hidatsa Story

By S.D. Nelson

Black Elk's Vision

A Lakota Story

By S. D. Nelson