num_pages: 488
description: The story of Don C. Talayesva, the Sun Chief, who was born and reared until the age of ten as a Hopi Indian, and then trained as a white man until he was twenty. Although torn between two worlds and cultures, he returned to Hopiland and readopted all the tribal customs. This is his autobiography, written for Leo Simmons, a white man who was a clan brother.
language: English
title: Sun Chief: The Autobiography of a Hopi Indian
titlecomplete: Sun Chief: The Autobiography of a Hopi Indian (The Lamar Series in Western History)
genres: History, Anthropology, Memoir, Biography, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 147
publisher: Yale University Press