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The Author Was The Chief Of The Oglala Tribe Of The Sioux Nation.
When Standing Bear returned to the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation
after sixteen years' absence, his dismay at the condition of his
people may well have served as a catalyst for the writing of this
book, first published in 1933. In addition to describing the
customs, manners, and traditions of the Teton Sioux, Standing Bear
also offered general comments about the importance of Native
cultures and values and the status of Indian peoples in American
society. With the assistance of Melvin R. Gilmore, curator of
ethnology at the University of Michigan, and Warcaziwin, Standing
Bear's niece and secretary, Standing Bear sought to tell the white
man "just how" they "lived as Lakotans."
"Land of the Spotted Eagle" is generously interspersed with
personal reminiscences and anecdotes, including chapters on child
rearing, social and political organization, family, religion, and
manhood. Standing Bear's views on Indian affairs and his
suggestions for the improvement of white-Indian relations are
presented in the two closing chapters.
Luther Standing Bear, a Lakota Sioux born in the 1860s, heard these
legends in his youth, when his people were being moved to
reservations. In haunting mood and imagery, they celebrate the old
nomadic life of the Sioux, when buffalo were plentiful and all
nature fed the spirit. The twenty stories honor not only the
buffalo but also the dog, the horse, the eagle, and the wolf as
workaday helpers and agents of divine intervention; the wisdom of
the medicine man; and the heroism and resourcefulness of individual
men and women.
Although the traditional Sioux nation was in its last days when
Luther Standing Bear was born in the 1860s, he was raised in the
ancestral manner to be a successful hunter and warrior and a
respectful and productive member of Sioux society. Known as Plenty
Kill, young Standing Bear belonged to the Western Sioux tribe that
inhabited present-day North and South Dakota. In "My Indian
Boyhood" he describes the home life and education of Indian
children. Like other boys, he played with toy bows and arrows in
the tipi before learning to make and use them and became schooled
in the ways of animals and in the properties of plants and herbs.
His life would be very different from that of his ancestors, but he
was not denied the excitement of killing his first buffalo before
leaving to attend the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania.
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My People the Sioux (Paperback)
Luther Standing Bear; Edited by E.A. Brininstool; Introduction by Williams Hart
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R1,009
Discovery Miles 10 090
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This is a new release of the original 1928 edition.
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My People the Sioux (Hardcover)
Luther Standing Bear; Edited by E.A. Brininstool; Introduction by Williams Hart
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R1,320
Discovery Miles 13 200
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This is a new release of the original 1928 edition.
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My People the Sioux (Paperback)
Luther Standing Bear; Edited by E.A. Brininstool; Introduction by Williams Hart
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R942
Discovery Miles 9 420
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The Author Was The Chief Of The Oglala Tribe Of The Sioux Nation.
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My People The Sioux (Paperback)
Luther Standing Bear; Edited by E.A. Brininstool; Introduction by Williams Hart
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R951
Discovery Miles 9 510
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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When it was first published in 1928, Luther Standing Bear's
autobiographical account of his tribe and tribesmen was hailed by
Van Wyck Brooks as "one of the most engaging and veracious we have
ever had." It remains a landmark in Indian literature, among the
first books about Indians written from the Indian point of view by
an Indian.
Born in the 1860s, the son of a Lakota chief, Standing Bear was
in the first class at Carlisle Indian School, witnessed the Ghost
Dance uprising from the Pine Ridge Reservation, toured Europe with
Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, and devoted his later years to the
Indian rights movement of the 1920s and 1930s.
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