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Luther Standing Bear

    Luther Standing Bear was een Oglala Lakota-chef, erkend als auteur die zich bezighield met de Amerikaanse geschiedenis. Zijn geschriften onderzochten vaak de perspectieven van Native Americans en filosofische ideeën. Hij liet een belangrijke indruk achter in de literatuur en cultureel begrip tussen gemeenschappen.

    My People the Sioux
    Black Elk Speaks
    Stories of the Sioux
    My Indian Boyhood
    Land of the Spotted Eagle
    • Describing the customs, manners, and traditions of the Teton Sioux, this title also offers general comments about the importance of Native cultures and values and the status of Indian people in American society. It is interspersed with personal reminiscences and anecdotes, including chapters on child rearing, social and political organization.

      Land of the Spotted Eagle
    • A memoir of life, experience, and education of a Lakota child in the late 1800s. The author 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.

      My Indian Boyhood
    • Stories of the Sioux

      • 82bladzijden
      • 3 uur lezen
      4,1(55)Tarief

      A series of short stories, related by the author, handed down from generation to generation of the Lakota tribe. This work honours the buffalo, the dog, the horse, the eagle, and the wolf as workaday helpers and agents of divine intervention; the wisdom of the medicine man; and the heroism and resourcefulness of individual men and women.

      Stories of the Sioux
    • Black Elk Speaks

      Being the life story of a holy man of the Oglala Sioux

      • 334bladzijden
      • 12 uur lezen
      4,1(358)Tarief

      The famous story of the Lakota healer and visionary, Nicholas Black Elk.

      Black Elk Speaks
    • A description of life of the Lakota Indians in the late nineteenth century from the perspective of an Indian.

      My People the Sioux