Title: The dance house
First published: 1998
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.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Teton Indians, Indians of North America, Fiction, Fiction, short stories (single author), Indians of north america, fiction, Lakota Indians
Places: South Dakota, Rosebud Indian Reservation (S.D.)
LC classification: PS3563.A72215 D36 1998