Bead on an Anthill: A Lakota Childhood TC_Bestseller in what we remember and

in what we remember and what we dream—we live in the past

Winner—Chicago Review of Books “CHIRBy” Award for Poetry

With its promise of escape from the strains of everyday life

An inspiring and empowering memoir

Bead on an Anthill: A Lakota Childhood TC_Bestseller in what we remember andBead on an Anthill is the story of a Lakota girl's experiences growing up in Nebraska and on the Pine Ridge Reservation in the 1960s and 1970s. Raised in a home without books, Delphine Red Shirt relied on family and friends as her "books" and wove their stories into her own. Like her ancestors, she felt a powerful connection to the openness of the Plains. She participated in coming of age ceremonies and learned the special rules for stringing beads