Books by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve

Standing Bear died in 1908, but his legacy and influence continue even up to the present.

While searching for his Norwegian immigrant family, the gentle, lumbering Troll meets Iktomi. The vain, opportunistic Trickster soon discovers that he too has lost his people, the Lakota. When Iktomi and Troll eventually find their peoples, they are neither recognized nor wanted. The lonely Trickster and the Troll find solace in their friendship.

Norman Two Bull is a modern and savvy fifteen-year-old Sioux who lives on a Dakota reservation with his parents. Encouraged by his grandfather, Norman makes a perilous climb to the top of a sacred butte. There, unexpectedly, he finds an ancient relic with the power to make strange and unusual things happen - and they do.

Presents the author's own story and the story of her family. This title recalls her grandmother, Flora Driving Hawk, teaching her how storytelling enthralls and how a quilt can represent all that holds a family together.

Tells the story about two Lakota girls and their Laotian friend illuminates for children and adults the Lakota meaning of family, friendship, life, and death.

While secretly exploring an old fort on the South Dakota prairie, three Indian girls encounter a stranger. One of the girls names him the chichi hoohoo bogeyman, after the Sioux, Hopi, and white figures used to discipline children. On a forbidden outing the girls again encounter the stranger, who starts to chase them as they run away in fear.

Spins tales of Lakota and Dakota generations, of what the youngest can learn from their elders, if they choose to listen: a boy is embarrassed to accept the gift of a medicine bag from his dying grandfather; a little girl learns about the Lakota seasons. This collection ends with spellbinding ancient Sioux tales about the birth of the universe.