Stories of the Sioux

Author(s)

• Standing Bear, Luther
• Stoops, Herbert Morton

Bibliographic Information

Stories of the Sioux

by Luther Standing Bear ; with illustrations by Herbert Morton Stoops

（A bison book）

University of Nebraska Press, 1988, c1961

• pbk.
• hard

Note

"A Bison book."

Reprint. Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1934

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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).

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Details

• NCID: BA04875566
• ISBN:
  • 0803291876
  • 0803241941
• LCCN: 88012221
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Lincoln
• Pages/Volumes: vi, 79 p.
• Size: 21 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : E99.T34
  • DC19 : 398.2/08997
  • NDC7 : 388.5344
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Teton Indians -- Legends
  • LCSH : Dakota Indians -- Legends
  • LCSH : Indians of North America -- Great Plains -- Legends
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA01567943