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Spooner, Michael.
LAST CHILD
New York : Holt, 2005.
IL YA
ISBN 0805077391
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 It is not easy having a white father and a Mandan mother in 1837.  Rosalie isn't quite sure where she fits.  Is she white or is she an Indian?  She lives in the Mandan village with her mother and her father lives in nearby Fort Clark.  When a small pox epidemic threatens to kill everyone in the village, Rosalie wonders if she really will be the last child of the Mandan.
SUBJECTS:     Coming of age -- Fiction.
                        Survival -- Fiction.
                        Mandan Indians -- Fiction.
                        Indians of North America -- Fiction.
                        Smallpox -- Fiction.
                        North Dakota -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
                        Historical fiction.
 
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