Research Catalog

Title

My people the Sioux / by Luther Standing Bear ; edited by E.A. Brininstool ; introduction by Richard N. Ellis ; introduction to the new Bison Books edition by Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve.

Author

Standing Bear, Luther, 1868?-1939

Publication

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

Brininstool, E. A. (Earl Alonzo), 1870-1957

Description

xxviii, 288 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

Standing Bear told his own story as well as that of his people, the Lakota Indians.

Subjects

• Biographies
• History
• Lakota Indians > History
• Lakota Indians > Kings and rulers > Biography
• Standing Bear, Luther, 1868?-1939

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Plenty Kill -- The tipi -- Games -- A buffalo-hunt and a battle -- My first buffalo -- My father's trip to Washington -- Rations : a war-party : wild horses -- Custer's last fight and the death of Crazy Horse -- A boy scout -- My father's store : the first wagons -- An Indian triangle -- The sun dance -- Going east -- First days at Carlisle -- School life : the last of the head chiefs -- Recruiting for Carlisle : a trip to Washington -- The Carlisle band in New York -- At work for Wanamaker -- Back to Dakota : teaching and marriage -- Trouble at the agency -- The ghost-dance troubles -- At Pine Ridge : school, store, and post office -- Rancher, clerk, and assistant minister -- With Buffalo Bill in England -- I am made chief -- American citizenship.

ISBN

• 0803293321 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780803293328

LCCN

^^2006016620

OCLC

• 69241488
• SCSB-10637140

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library