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beautifully illustrated by celebrated artist encourages children to show love and support for each other and to consider each other's well-being in their everyday actions

the various ways separation and secrets are viewed

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just like learning a language

In the Beginning, the Sun: The Dakota Legend of Creation Comanche and in the pages ofA never before published book by famed Native American author Charles Eastman recounts the stories of the Dakota creation cycle as they were told a century and a half ago. In the 1860s and 1870s, the boy who would become known as Charles Eastman was growing up in a Dakota community in Canada. On long winter evenings, he listened to elder Smoky Day tell the twelve legends of the Dakota creation cycle. They include stories of the marriage of the Sun and