Land of the Spotted Eagle"A serious and notable contribution to racial understanding."?Saturday Review of Literature Standing Bear'sødismay at the condition of his people, when after sixteen years' absence he returned to the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation, may well have served as a catalyst for the writing of this book, first published in 1933. In addition to describing the customs, manners, and traditions of the Teton Sioux, Standing Bear (as Richard N. Ellis notes in the foreword) "also offered more general comments about the importance of native cultures and values and the status of Indian people in American society." With the assistance of Melvin R. Gilmore, curator of ethnology at the University of Michigan, and his niece and secretary, Warcaziwin, Standing Bear sought to tell the white man "just how we lived as Lakotans." His book, generously interspersed with personal reminiscences and anecdotes, includes chapters on child rearing, social and political organization, the family, religion, and manhood. Standing Bear's views on Indian affairs and his suggestions for the improvement of white-Indian relations are presented in the two closing chapters. Standing Bear's My People the Sioux (1928), edited by E. A. Brininstool, also is available in a Bison Books edition, with an introduction by Richard N. Ellis. |
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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictStanding Bear told his own story as well as that of his people, the Lakota Indians, with the release of these volumes in the early 1930s, some of the first books to tell his people's history from ... Read full review
Contents
BOYHOOD | 13 |
PARENTHOOD | 83 |
MANNERS MORALS | 148 |
NATURE RELIGION | 192 |
LATER DAYS | 226 |
WHAT THE INDIAN MEANS TO AMERICA | 247 |
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| Title | Land of the Spotted Eagle A Bison book |
| Author | Luther Standing Bear |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | U of Nebraska Press, 1978 |
| ISBN | 0803258909, 9780803258907 |
| Length | 259 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Native American Social Science / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies |
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