When the Chokecherries Bloom — C.K. Van Dam

Shining Water's world was changing.When the Lakota girl was just a baby, her mother died from a disease brought by white settlers. Now, her father, the son of a Lakota medicine woman and a Scots fur trapper, has married a homesteader. And he expects Shining Water to leave her grandmother's tipi to live with him in the white woman's sod house. When the Chokecherries Bloom is Shining Water's story - a year in the life of a Lakota girl on the Dakota plains. A year of growth and transformation as she learns to adapt and thrive in her new world. When the Chokecherries Bloom is from the award-winning author of the series On the Dakota Frontier.