Buffalo.Buffalo Beverly Brodsky Fitzhenry & Whiteside 311 Washington St., Brighton, MA 02135 www.fitzhenry.ca 1550415875, $18.95, www.amazon.com Author and artist Beverly Brodsky's "Buffalo: With Selections From Native American Song-Poems" is a stunning, sophisticated collection of art works and collected Native American song-poems about the North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. plains bison, or buffalo. Beverly Brodsky's oil and water color Wa´ter col`or 1. (Paint.) A color ground with water and gum or other glutinous medium; a color the vehicle of which is water; - so called in distinction from 2. A picture painted with such colors. paintings evoke the mystery and majesty of the revered buffalo, holy to many First Americans. The song-poems quoted are from a large variety of traditions, including Hidatsa, Dakota, Osage, Pawnee, Sioux, and more. The artist-author gives full tribute to her many sources of inspiration for "Buffalo" in a note from the author at the end, mentioning Indian historians such as Eaglelance and Nupa Kte of the Oglala Sioux Oglala Sioux: see Sioux. , and Chief Washake of the Shoshone tribe, who said "A people without a history is like the wind on the buffalo grass." "Buffalo" is appropriate for both juvenile (age 9 and up) and adult readers because of its depth of art and reverence for Native American traditions. |
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