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- ↑ "Caring Pillar:Native American Value of Wisdom". We are All Relatives! Book 2 (PDF). South Dakota State University. pp. 50–52.
- ↑ "Children's Book Review: Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles, Author, Patricia Miles Martin, Author, Peter Parnall, Illustrator Little, Brown Books for Young Readers $7.99 (44p) ISBN 978-0-316-57120-3". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2015-11-26.