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My people, the Sioux

by Luther Standing Bear ; edited by E. A. Brininstool ; with an introduction by Richard N. Ellis

University of Nebraska Press, 1975

  • : cloth

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Reprint of the 1928 ed. published by Houghton Mifflin, Boston; with new introd

"A Bison book."

Includes bibliographical references

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: cloth ISBN 9780803208742

Description

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, 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 30s. His story offers a rare inside view by an Indian who successfully made the transition from traditional tribal life to the white man s world but never lost his pride in and identification with his Indian heritage."
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ISBN 9780803257931

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Born in 1868 the son of an Oglala chief, Luther Standing Bear was in the first class at Carlisle, 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. His autobiography, first published in 1928, gives a rare inside view by an Indian who successfully made the transition from tribal life to the white man's world.

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