Sat-ook
Dates: 3/12/01,4:35 PM through 3/12/01,4:35 PM (1 posting)
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FROM: "Martha Garbison" <[removed]@denver.lib.co.us>
REC'D: 3/12/01, 4:35 PM
This one is a real toughie for me...I have come up with nothing. I have a customer who grew up in Mongolia and read a book in 1980 or 1981 that was translated from the English to Russian and is about a young boy with a name something like "Sat-ook." This was a Native American Indian or Canadian Indian name and roughly translated means 'feather of the owl.' My patron thinks this was intended for a young audience. The young Indian of the story is the child of an Indian chief who has married a white woman of Polish descent. Her name means 'white cloud.' It is the story of the young boy coming of age and my customer remembers that Niagara Falls was mentioned in the story. At the end of the book, there is information about the mother and son returning to Poland and that the boy eventually served in WWII. The time period is the 1800's to the 1940's with most of the book devoted to the young boy's childhood and adolescence. Any help on this one would be greatly appreciated!! My customer also thought that this book was a novel based on a true story...
TIA,
Martha Garbison, Senior Librarian
Burnham Hoyt Room
Denver Public Library
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