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Stories of the Sioux / by Luther Standing Bear ; with illustrations by Herbert Morton Stoops.

Van Pelt Library E99.T34 S73 1988
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Standing Bear, Luther, 1868?-1939.
Contributor:
Stoops, Herbert Morton.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Lakota Indians--Legends.
Lakota Indians.
Dakota Indians--Folklore.
Dakota Indians.
Indians of North America--Great Plains--Folklore.
Indians of North America.
Legends.
Great Plains.
Genre:
Folklore.
Physical Description:
vi, 79 pages ; 21 cm
Place of Publication:
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1988.
Summary:
Luther Standing Bear, a Lakota Sioux born in the 1860s, heard these legends in his youth, when his people were being moved to reservations. Haunting in 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, horse, eagle, and 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. Luther Standing Bear is the author of "Land of the Spotted Eagle," "My People the Sioux," and "My Indian Boyhood" (also Bison Books).
Notes:
"A Bison book."
Reprint. Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1934.
ISBN:
0803291876
0803241941
OCLC:
17841330

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