Brave Bird at Wounded Knee
A Story of Protest on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
by Rachel Bithell
Pub Date 01 Jan 2023
North Star Editions, Jolly Fish Press
Historical Fiction | Middle Grade
I am reviewing a copy of Brave Bird at Wounded Knee through North Star editions, Jolly Fish Press and Netgalley:
Patsy Antoine doesn’t usually give much thought to her relatives living on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, in 1973, Denver Colorado. After all, her classmates don’t even know she’s part Lakota. Then she learns the tiny town of Wounded Knee has been occupied. Now Patsy’s relatives are stuck amid the conflict between American Indian Movement activists and Oglala Lakota tribe members on the one side, and federal marshals and FBI agents on the other. When Patsy visits her relatives on Pine Ridge, she learns more about her heritage and the clashing perspectives on the Wounded Knee occupation. As she connects with her roots, Patsy must grapple with the complexities of the conflict and of being biracial.
The storytellers are the ones that keep a nation’s history. But what happens when some stories are silenced?
I give Brave Bird at Wounded Knee five out of five stars!
Happy Reading!
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