The Great Sioux Nation"Graphic descriptions of the social life, religious superstitions, habits, traits, customs, and manners of the wild Indians since the time of their discovery by Columbus, comprising the authentic accounts of their illustrious leaders, terrible battles, cruel massacres, daring exploits, heroism and marvelous fortitude"-T.p. |
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All 5 reviews »I was given my copy of "The Great Sioux Nation" by my husband's grandmother who was related to Fred. Frederic M. Hans was the second great uncle of my husband. I truly enjoyed reading this wonderful book. It could well be used as an educational book in school. It detailed the daily life of the Sioux Indian..their superstitions, their family dynamics, their food preparing, their marriage and child rearing customs, and many more. I was also given another smaller book that Fred Hans wrote about his own life, and why he began "living" with the different Sioux tribes. He was searching for a younger brother who was purported to have been kidnapped by the Sioux. Truly an interesting book all the way through the aprox. 600 pages.
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Page 408 - I send are of the same mind, and shall, in all things, behave themselves accordingly ; and, if in anything any shall offend you or your people, you shall have a full and speedy satisfaction for the same, by an equal number of just men on both sides; that by no means you may have just occasion of being offended against them.
Page 421 - ... the younger fry, in the same figure. Having consulted and resolved their business, the king ordered one of them to speak to me; he stood up, came to me, and in the name of his king saluted me, then took me by the hand, and told me...
Page 421 - ... of body, that he will even sweat to a foam. The other part is their cantico, performed by round dances, sometimes words, sometimes songs, then shouts, two being in the middle that begin, and by singing and drumming on a board, direct the chorus. Their postures in the dance are very antic and differing, but all keep measure. This is done with equal earnestness and labour, but great appearance of joy.
Page 366 - Louisiana, the seas, harbors, ports, bays, adjacent straits, and all the nations, peoples, provinces, cities, towns, villages, mines, minerals, fisheries, streams, and rivers...
Page 422 - ... to love the Christians, and particularly live in peace with me, and the people under my government: that many governors had been in the river, but that no governor had come himself to live and stay here before; and having now such an one that had treated them well, they should never do him or his any wrong.
Page 416 - Their language is lofty, yet narrow; but, like the Hebrew in signification, full. Like short-hand in writing, one word serveth in the place of three, and the rest are supplied by the understanding of the hearer; imperfect in their tenses, wanting in their moods, participles, adverbs, conjunctions, interjections.
Page 447 - Oyonwayea to the Ohio, shall be the western boundary of the lands of the Six Nations, so that the Six Nations shall and do yield to the United States, all claims to the country west of the said boundary, and then they shall be secured in the...
Page 408 - I am very sensible of the unkindness and injustice that hath been too much exercised toward you by the people of these parts of the world...
Page 374 - Anon, all upon a sudden, we heard a great and strange cry, which we knew to be the same voices, though they varied their notes. One of our company, being abroad, came running in, and cried, "They are men! Indians! Indians!
Page 366 - Palms; upon the assurance which we have received from all these nations, that we are the first Europeans who have descended or ascended the said River Colbert ; hereby protesting against all...
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Great Sioux Nation Nineteenth Century American literature on microfiche. Series C: The Trans-Mississippi west Western Americana, frontier history of the trans-Mississippi West, 1550-1900 |
| Author | Fred Malon Hans |
| Publisher | M. A. Donohue and Company, 1907 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 15 Dec 2007 |
| Length | 575 pages |
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