My People, the Sioux

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U of Nebraska Press, Jan 1, 1975 - Biography & Autobiography - 288 pages

Born in 1868 the son of an Oglala chief, Luther Standing Bear was in the first class at Carlisle, witnessed the Ghost Dance uprising from the Pine Ridge Reservation, toured Europe with Buffalo Bill?s Wild West show, and devoted his later years to the Indian rights movement of the 1920s. His autobiography, first published in 1928, gives a rare inside view by an Indian who successfully made the transition from tribal life to the white man's world.

 

Contents

PLENTY KILL
3
THE TIPI
13
GAMES
28
A BUFFALOHUNT AND A BATTLE
49
MY FIRST BUFFALO
58
MY FATHERS TRIP TO WASHINGTON
67
A WARPARTY WILD HORSES
71
CUSTERS LAST FIGHT AND the Death of CRAZY HORSE
82
THE LAST OF THE HEAD CHIEFS
151
A TRIP TO WASHING ΤΟΝ
161
THE CARLISLE BAND IN NEW YORK
171
AT WORK FOR WANAMAKER
177
TEACHING AND MARRIAGE
191
TROUBLE AT THE AGENCY
205
THE GHOSTDANCE TROUBLES
217
SCHOOL STORE AND POST OFFICE 2581
231

A Boy SCOUT
89
THE FIRST WAGONS
98
AN INDIAN TRIANGLE
109
THE SUN DANCE
113
GOING EAST
123
FIRST DAYS AT CARLISLE
133
RANCHER CLERK AND ASSISTANT MINISTER
240
WITH BUFFALO BILL IN ENGLAND
248
AM MADE CHIEF
268
AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP
278
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Luther Standing Bear is the author of "Stories of the Sioux," "My Indian Boyhood," and "Land of the Spotted Eagle" (all available in Bison Books editions). Richard N. Ellis is editor of "The Western American Indian: Case Studies in Tribal History."

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