# In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse

**Author:** Joseph Marshall
**Grade range:** Grades 3–7
**First published:** 2015
**Page count:** 107
**Genre:** Middle Grade
**ISBN-13:** `9781613128312`
**ISBN-10:** `1613128312`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/in-the-footsteps-of-crazy-horse
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Jimmy McClean is a Lakota boy—though you wouldn’t guess it by his name: his father is part white and part Lakota, and his mother is Lakota. When he embarks on a journey with his grandfather, Nyles High Eagle, he learns more and more about his Lakota heritage—in particular, the story of Crazy Horse, one of the most important figures in Lakota and American history. Drawing references and inspiration from the oral stories of the Lakota tradition, celebrated author Joseph Marshall III juxtaposes the contemporary story of Jimmy with an insider’s perspective on the life of Tasunke Witko, better known as Crazy Horse (c. 1840–1877). The book follows the heroic deeds of the Lakota leader who took up arms against the US federal government to fight against encroachments on the territories and way of 

## Where this book is assigned

### American Indian Youth Literature Award

- **recommended** · 3rd grade — [source: American Indian Youth Literature Award (American Indian Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2016 AILA Winner (Middle Grade)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Youth_Literature_Award)
- **recommended** · 4th grade — [source: American Indian Youth Literature Award (American Indian Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2016 AILA Winner (Middle Grade)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Youth_Literature_Award)
- **recommended** · 5th grade — [source: American Indian Youth Literature Award (American Indian Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2016 AILA Winner (Middle Grade)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Youth_Literature_Award)
- **recommended** · 6th grade — [source: American Indian Youth Literature Award (American Indian Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2016 AILA Winner (Middle Grade)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Youth_Literature_Award)
- **recommended** · 7th grade — [source: American Indian Youth Literature Award (American Indian Library Association), via Wikipedia — 2016 AILA Winner (Middle Grade)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Youth_Literature_Award)

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