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Chief Luther Standing Bear - Stories of the Sioux

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Luther Standing Bear, a Lakota Sioux born in the 1860s, heard these legends in his youth, when his people were being moved to reservations. Haunting in mood and imagery, they celebrate the old nomadic life of the Sioux when buffalo were plentiful and all nature fed the spirit. The twenty stories honor not only the buffalo but also the dog, horse, eagle, and 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. Luther Standing Bear is the author of Land of the Spotted Eagle, My People the Sioux, and My Indian Boyhood (also Bison Books).

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title Stories of the Sioux author Standing Bear Luther Stoops - photo 1

title:Stories of the Sioux
author:Standing Bear, Luther.; Stoops, Herbert Morton.
publisher:University of Nebraska Press
isbn10 | asin:0803291876
print isbn13:9780803291874
ebook isbn13:9780585313009
language:English
subjectTeton Indians--Folklore, Dakota Indians--Folklore, Indians of North America--Great Plains--Folklore.
publication date:1988
lcc:E99.T34S73 1988eb
ddc:398.2/08997
subject:Teton Indians--Folklore, Dakota Indians--Folklore, Indians of North America--Great Plains--Folklore.
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Stories of the Sioux
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The Story-Teller Page iii Stories of the Sioux By Chief - photo 2
The Story-Teller
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Stories of the Sioux
By
Chief Luther Standing Bear
With Illustrations by
Herbert Morton Stoops
Stories of the Sioux - image 3
Page iv Copyright 1934 by Luther Standing Bear Copyright renewed 1961 by - photo 4
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Copyright 1934 by Luther Standing Bear
Copyright renewed 1961 by May M. Jones
All rights reserved
Manufactured in the United States of America
First Bison Book printing: 1988
Most recent printing indicated by the first digit below:
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Standing Bear, Luther, 1868?1939.
Stories of the Sioux / by Luther Standing Bear; with
illustrations by Herbert Morton Stoops.
p. cm.
"Bison."
Reprint. Originally published: Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1934.
ISBN 0-8032-4194-1. ISBN 0-8032-9187-6 (pbk.)
1. Teton IndiansLegends. 2. Dakota IndiansLegends.
3. Indians of North AmericaGreat PlainsLegends. I. Stoops,
Herbert Morton. II. Title.
E99.T34S73 1988
398.2'08997dc 19 88-12221 CIP
Reprinted by arrangement with Dolores Miller Nyerges and Anita Miller Melbo
Picture 5
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Preface
The Sioux people have many stories which are told by the older ones in the tribe to the younger. Many main events and historical happenings of the tribe are told as stories and in this way the history of the people is recorded. These stories were not told, however, with the idea of forcing the children to learn, but for pleasure, and they were enjoyed by young and old alike. Some of these stories I have heard repeated many times. Others I have heard only once, but these I remember just as well. Perhaps it is because an Indian child is trained to use his ears carefully that his memory is so reliable.
These stories were not always told by the camp-fire during the long winter evenings, but at any time and at any place whenever and whereever the teller and the audience were in the mood. Sometimes it was Grandmother who sat on the ground, perhaps with a small stick or drawing-pencil in her hand, drawing designs on the earth
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as she told a story that she had known ever since she was a child herself. The children would cluster around her, either lying or squatting on the ground listening.
Sometimes Grandfather or Great-Grandfather was the story-teller as he sat and smoked at noonday. Even when on the march, if all were enjoying an afternoon rest and someone felt in the humor, a story would be related and enjoyed. So story-telling was in order with the Sioux at any and all times.
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Contents
I. The Old Woman who Lived with the Wolves
3
II. How the Medicine-Man Found the Lost Horses
10
III. The Arrow-Thrower
14
IV. The Hunter who was Saved by Eagles
20
V. The Deer Dreamer
26
VI. The Leap of Hawk Dreamer
28
VII. Standing Bear's Horse
32
VIII. Crow Butte
37
IX. Thunder Dreamer the Medicine-Man
41
X. Buffalo Brothers
44
XI. The Snow Woman
48
XII. The Singing Colt
51
XIII. The Woman who Killed the Owl
55
XIV. Grandmother and the Bear
58
XV. The Faithful Horse
61
XVI. The Magic Tree
65
XVII. The Year of the Buffalo
68
XVIII. The Holy Dog
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