A prowling wildcat finds a surprise in an old dried-up buffalo skull. A group of mice are dancing the night away and not paying attention to the dagers around them. Does the wildcat spell doom for the mice, or will they escape to safety? Dance in a Buffalo Skull is an American Indain tale of danger and survival on the Great Plains.

 

This book was recognised in the Illustrator category by the Moonbeam Children's Book Award.

This book is part of a book series called Prairie Tales .

There are 40 pages in this book. This book was published 2007 by South Dakota State Historical Society .

Zitkala-sa , born on the Yankton Sioux Indian Reservation in 1876, first publiched this story in a collection of tales called Old Indian Legends (1901). S. D. Nelson is a member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe in the Dakotas. He is the author of two previous children's books Fluid in Both Narrative and Illustrations and An Exemplary Offering. Nelson lives in Arizona, USA.