Stories of the Sioux

Type

Book

Authors

Luther Standing Bear ( Standing Bear, Luther )

Herbert Morton Stoops ( Stoops, Herbert Morton )

ISBN 10

0803291876

ISBN 13

9780803291874

Tags

Lakota -- Folklore, Dakota -- Folklore, Dakota, Lakota, Great Plains, Indigenous peoples -- Great Plains -- Folklore, Indigenous peoples -- Great Plains

Abstract

"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 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; ad the heroism and resourcefulness of the 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)."--Back cover.

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