My Indian boyhood
By: by Luther Standing Bear ; with illustrations by Rodney Thomson ; introduction to the Bison Books edition by Delphine Red Shirt.
Edition: New ed.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9780803293342
Subjects: Standing Bear, Luther, -- 1868?-1939.; Teton Indians -- Kings and rulers -- Biography.; Indians of North America -- Great Plains -- Biography.; Teton Indians -- Social life and customs.; Indians of North America -- Great Plains -- Social life and customs.
Genres: Biography.
Description: The native American author describes how he was raised in the ancestral ways of the Sioux during the time when the tribe was in its last days, becoming a successful hunter and warrior before leaving to attend the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania.
Notes: Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., c1931.
Table of contents: title: The Sioux; title: Bows and arrows; title: The Indian boy and his pony; title: Hunting and fishing; title: Plants, trees, and herbs; title: Tanning, painting, and designing; title: Games; title: How chiefs are made; title: Medicine men and music; title: At last I kill a buffalo.