Indian boyhood / by Ohiyesa (Charles A. Eastman) ; illustrated by E. L. Blumenschein.
Material type: TextSeries: A Rio Grande classicPublication details: Glorieta, N.M. : Rio Grande Press, c1976.Description: viii, 289 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0873801148
- 970/.004/97 B 92
- E99.S22 E184 1976
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Not for Loan | Main Library | North Dakota Collection | Eastman, C. E13 | Not for loan | 33111002774285 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Excerpt: ...it means that he took the scalp. "A brave who has been successful in ten battles is entitled to a war-bonnet; and if he is a recognized leader, he is permitted to wear one with long, trailing plumes. Also those who have counted many coups may tip the ends of the feathers with bits of white or colored down. Sometimes the eagle feather is tipped with a strip of weasel skin; that means the wearer had the honor of killing, scalping and counting the first coup upon the enemy all at the same time. "This feather you have found was worn by a Cree
Reprint of the 1929 ed. published by Little, Brown, Boston; with new introd.
A full-blooded Santee Sioux Indian describes his childhood experiences and training as a warrior in the late nineteenth century until he was taken to live in the white man's world at age fifteen.