The dance house
Subtitle: stories from Rosebud
By: by Joseph Marshall, III.
Publisher: Red Crane Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Santa Fe, NM
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
Subjects: Indians of North America -- South Dakota -- Fiction; Teton Indians -- Fiction; Rosebud Indian Reservation (S.D.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Description: The Dance House is a combination of essays and short stories based on incidents or events which took place on the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation in South Dakota. The essays discuss mystic experiences, Native American cultures, Indian ranchers, and the hard scrabble life on the high plains. Joseph Marshall tells personal stories of the often frustrating, adversarial and sometimes laughable relationship between Indian tribes and the federal government.

The short stories, some semi-autobiographical in nature, are intertwined with Lakota oral traditions.
Table of contents: title: Oliver's silver dollar; title: Cozy by the fire; title: Nelson and Star; title: The 1965 Continental; title: The dance house; title: When the grasses talk; title: Pride; title: The birthday turtle; title: The bloodlines of heritage; title: The myth of the hunter warrior; title: Buffalo grass; title: White lore; title: Lure of the Holy iron.