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The River Run is the third installment in The Legend of Big Heart collection. To fulfill the government's policy to ""destroy the Indian and save the man,"" Alfred Swallow and his friends Orson and Junior are forced to leave their families and homes to attend a residential mission school. The students' beautiful long hair is cut, and they are forbidden to speak their native language. Even the slightest infraction is severely punished. At the height of hopelessness, Alfred gets a ghostly visit from beyond the grave, telling him to run to the river. With a bounty on their heads, Alfred and his friends Orson and Junior plunge into a harrowing quest for freedom. The boys must rely on their instincts and intelligence as their journey takes them to Sioux City, Iowa. Here they find work at a carnival, but their jobs lead them into the underground world of gangsters and crime, and ultimately to Alfred's missing parents.

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""An action-packed journey offering a peek into the impact of residential schools. [The River Run] is an accessible work for reluctant readers that includes multiple engaging strands as well as an afterword about the Pick-Sloan Act of 1944, which authorized...five dams that destroyed vast swathes of Lower Brule Lakota land.""-- ""Kirkus Reviews""

"""An action-packed journey offering a peek into the impact of residential schools. [The River Run] is an accessible work for reluctant readers that includes multiple engaging strands as well as an afterword about the Pick-Sloan Act of 1944, which authorized...five dams that destroyed vast swathes of Lower Brule Lakota land.""-- ""Kirkus Reviews"""

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Alfreda Beartrack-Algeo is a storyteller, poet, artist and illustrator. Her recent book, The Day the Earth Rose Up, is her Lakota version of the story of the Pleiades star constellation. She is a member of the Lower Brule Lakota Nation, Kul Wicasa Oyate, Lower Brule, South Dakota. Alfreda grew up surrounded by her tiyóspaye, her circle of family and friends and uses stories she heard as a child, along with various art forms, in all her work. ""As long as I have a story left to tell, I feel I have a responsibility to gift that story forward."" Alfreda currently lives in beautiful Palisade, Colorado.

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