A powerful novel presenting the dilemma of the displaced Indian in a white mans world, written from the Indian point of view. Twentieth-Century Western WritersBorn in 1820 near the Black Hills, Whirlwind belonged to the Oglala Sioux Nation. She feels the chill of change as the buffalo become decimated, and wars reduce her people to tatters. After the Battle of Little Big Horn leaves her band homeless, Grandmother Whirlwind faces her final challenge: a journey through snow toward refuge in Canada. With attention to humanity and history, Dorothy M. Johnsons novel follows the life of Whirlwind, seeing through her eyes the daily routine and rituals of the Sioux.