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Sweetgrass.
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Sweetgrass.

Author Jan Hudson.
Publisher New York, NY; Penguin Putnam Books
Date1989
ClassificationsMain Library Collection
Object numberPZ7.H8665 Sw 1989
Description168 pages

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.

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