W. Ross Macdonald School Library

Sweetgrass /

Hudson, Jan, 1954-1990, author.

Sweetgrass / Jan Hudson. - Edmonton : Tree Frog Press, 1984. - 143 pages : 22 cm

Bibliography: p. 140-141.

Living on the western Canadian prairie in the nineteenth century, Sweetgrass, a fifteen-year-old Blackfoot Indian girl, saves her family from a smallpox epidemic and proves her maturity to her father.

CLA Book of the Year for Children Award, 1984 Canada Council Children's Literature Award, 1984

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Siksika people--Fiction.
Indigenous peoples--Canada--Fiction.
Smallpox--Fiction.
Arranged marriage--Fiction.


Alberta--Fiction.


Authors, Canadian.
Canadian fiction.
FICTION / Historical / Canada.

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