family. The Lakota boy is discovered by Lakota hunters. Right away the
Lakota people realize the boy is gifted with special spiritual powers from
Wakan Tanka. Takini is adopted by the great chief, Sitting Bull. He lives
through the early 1870's with the threat of attack by United States
Bluecoats. With his special horse and faithful dog, Takini has many close
calls with enemy tribes and soldiers. Wakan Tanka's messenger, a red tailed
hawk, is there to lead him from the brink of death even when the boy is
spotted by General Custer's Seventy Calvary. Children reading TAKINI will
walk in the moccasins of boy living in the momentous 1870's.