The Gift of the Great Buffalo

In this beautiful and dramatic story,bestselling author Carole Lindstrom and illustrator Aly McKnight show readers how life was lived by Indigenous communitiesoffering the true history of life on the prairie. Before there was a little house on the prairiethere was a tipi on the prairie. Rose is a young Métis-Ojibwe girl who has traveled far with her family for the biannual buffalo hunt made up of hundreds of other Métis families. The ritual of the hunt has been practiced for generationsand each hunt must see the community through the next six months. But in recent yearsthe buffalo population has dwindledand after days on the huntthere are no buffalo to be found. Can Rose help her family find the herd that will enable them to survive the long winter?