Donald F. Montileaux's Lakota Creation Stories Selected for SD Summer Reading Program

2014 Inductee Donald F. Montileaux

The South Dakota Humanities Council has selected its first tribal author for this year’s reading program. 2014 Inductee Donald F. Montileaux's collection of three Lakota creation stories written and voiced in both Lakota and English are being distributed to Second Graders across the state for the Summer reading book selection.

Tatanka is the first of three books in the collection, ‘Tatanka and Other Legends of the Lakota People’. It was written by eight Lakota people in South Dakota. Donald Montileaux illustrated the children's book, then wrote and illustrated two accompanying books ‘Tasunka’ and ‘Muskrat and Skunk’. Montileaux is the author selected for the Young Readers One Book in South Dakota.

Listen to the full South Dakota Public Broadcasting interview here.

Learn more about Donald's Legacy of Achievement here.