When the Chokecherries Bloom

<p>Shining Water's world was changing.</p><p><br></p><p>When the Lakota girl was just a baby her mother died from a disease brought by white settlers. Now her father the son of a Lakota medicine woman and a Scots fur trapper has married a homesteader. And he expects Shining Water to leave her grandmother's tipi to live with him in the white woman's sod house. </p><p><br></p><p><em>When the Chokecherries Bloom</em> is Shining Water's story - a year in the life of a Lakota girl on the Dakota plains. A year of growth and transformation as she learns to adapt and thrive in her new world. </p><p><br></p><p>When the Chokecherries Bloom is from the award-winning author of the series On the Dakota Frontier.</p>