ENGLISH

My Indian Boyhood

By Bear , Luther , Standing

Book information

Publisher
UNP - Bison Books
Year
2006
ISBN
9780803293625, 9780803293670
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (3089608 bytes)
Edition
New Edition
Pages
\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52

Description

Although the traditional Sioux nation was in its last days when Luther Standing Bear was born in the 1860s, he was raised in the ancestral manner to be a successful hunter and warrior and a respectful and productive member of Sioux society. Known as Plenty Kill, young Standing Bear belonged to the Western Sioux tribe that inhabited present-day North and South Dakota. In My Indian Boyhood he describes the home life and education of Indian children. Like other boys, he played with toy bows and arrows in the tipi before learning to make and use them and became schooled in the ways of animals and in the properties of plants and herbs. His life would be very different from that of his ancestors, but he was not denied the excitement of killing his first buffalo before leaving to attend the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania.

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