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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
subject	Teton 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.

Page i Stories of the Sioux

Page ii The Story-Teller

Page iii Stories of the Sioux By Chief Luther Standing Bear With Illustrations by Herbert Morton Stoops

Page iv 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: 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 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

Page v 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

Page vi 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.

Page vii 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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