My Indian boyhood / by Luther Standing Bear, who was the boy, Ota K'te (Plenty Kill).
Material type: TextPublication details: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1988], c1931.Description: 189 p., [5] p. of plates : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:- 0803241933 (hard)
- 0803291868 (pbk.)
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 | 970.3 S785 | Not for loan | 33111001949144 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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, with clarity and feeling lent by experience, 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. Luther Standing Bear is the author of Land of the Spotted Eagle , My People the Sioux , and Stories of the Sioux (also Bison Books).
"Bison book."
Reprint. Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1931.