Sitting Bull Remembers

Ann Turner takes on a genuinely difficult creative challenge: imagining Sitting Bull's interior voice as he lived through the destruction of the Sioux way of life — Custer, the flight to Canada, the reservation at Fort Yates. She acknowledges openly that this is fictionalized, not documentary, and that transparency matters. Wendell Minor's illustrations are the book's strongest asset, consistently praised across reviews as visually powerful and historically grounded. The prose itself drew criticism from Kirkus as too plain to carry the weight of the perspective it attempts, and that is a fair note — the first-person voice does not always convince. Still, Through the Looking Glass recommended it for ages eight to ten as an honest entry point into a painful chapter of American history told from the indigenous side. The illustrations alone make it worth a classroom or library shelf.