Stories of the Sioux
By: by Luther Standing Bear ; with illustrations by Herbert Morton Stoops.
Contributors: Stoops, Herbert Morton.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 79
Subjects: Teton Indians -- Folklore; Dakota Indians -- Folklore; Indians of North America -- Great Plains -- Folklore
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.
Notes: "A Bison book."
Reprint. Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1934.