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The Christmas coat : memories of my Sioux childhood / by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve ; illustrated by Ellen Beier.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 6218
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Sneve, Virginia Driving Hawk, author.
Contributor:
Beier, Ellen, illustrator.
Holiday House (Firm), publisher.
Lehigh Phoenix Corp., printer, binder.
Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)
Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Sneve, Virginia Driving Hawk--Juvenile literature.
Sneve, Virginia Driving Hawk.
Dakota Indians--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Dakota Indians.
Dakota children--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Dakota children.
Children of clergy--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Children of clergy.
Rosebud Indian Reservation (S.D.)--Biography--Juvenile literature.
Rosebud Indian Reservation (S.D.).
South Dakota--Rosebud Indian Reservation.
Genre:
Literature.
Biographies.
Juvenile works.
Penn Provenance:
Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
Physical Description:
[32] pages : color illustrations ; 24 x 27 cm
Manufacture:
Hagerstown, MD, USA : Printed and bound ... at Lehigh Phoenix, in September 2013.
Place of Publication:
New York : Holiday House, [2011]
Summary:
Virginia and her brother are never allowed to pick first from the donation boxes at church because their father is the priest, and she is heartbroken when another girl gets the beautiful coat that she covets. Based on the author's memories of life on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota.
Local Notes:
Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2021 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
Cited in:
Schimmel, C.F. OK, I'll do it myself (2nd ed., revised), 6
OCLC:
1300762248

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