The True Story of Sitting Bull from multi-award-winning author Joseph Bruchac. Anxious to be given a name as strong and brave as that of his father a proud Lakota Sioux grows into manhood acting with careful deliberation determination and bravery which eventually earned him his proud new name: Sitting Bull. An ALA Notable Book Being named Slow and growing up in the shadow of a great warrior hardly dwarfed the prospects of this protagonist: he grew up to be Sitting Bull. Bruchac s sensitively told story of Sitting Bull s coming-of-age reassures young boys that success comes through effort not birth. --Booklist