But he is always homesick, so at the end of the day, he escapes the
crowds and hurry of the city by going up to the top of the tower to
enjoy the quiet night skies. And one night he spots a star more
beautiful than all of the others. . . . This original story centers on
the Prarie Band Potawatomi, who were displaced several times from their
original territory in the Great Lakes region to eventually be relocated
in Kansas under the Indian Removal Act. Today, there are several bands
of Potawatomi located in Wisconsin, Michigan, Oklahoma, and in Ontario,
Canada.
About the Tales of the People series
Created with the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian
(NMAI), Tales of the People is a series of children's books celebrating
Native American culture with illustrations and stories by Indian artists
and writers. In addition to the tales themselves, each book also offers
four pages filled with information and photographs exploring various
aspects of Native culture, including a glossary of words in different
Indian languages.