The Buffalo Hunt
It’s 1877, and 10-year-old Deer Foot is going on his first buffalo hunt with his father.
When Matthew He Bear was just a boy, his mother named him Deer Foot because he was a fast runner, and he ran whenever he could. But on a particular morning in early summer–the Moon of the June Berries–it was too early to run, so Deer Foot (who was 10 years old) lay looking up through the smoke hole in his family’s tipi. The sky slowly turned purple, and the stars began to fade, but he didn’t really notice. Today would be his first buffalo hunt, and it was all he could think about.