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Although the traditional Sioux nation was in its last days when Luther Standing Bear was born in the 1860s, he was raised in the ancestral manner to be a successful hunter and warrior and a respectful and productive member of Sioux society. Known as Plenty Kill, young Standing Bear belonged to the Western Sioux tribe that inhabited present-day North and South Dakota. In My Indian Boyhood he describes, with clarity and feeling lent by experience, 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. His life would be very different from that of his ancestors, but he was not denied the excitement of killing his first buffalo before leaving to attend the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania. Luther Standing Bear is the author of Land of the Spotted Eagle, My People the Sioux, and Stories of the Sioux (also Bison Books).
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Standing Bear, Luther,--1868?-1939--Childhood and youth, Teton Indians--Kings and rulers--Biography, Indians of North America--Great Plains--Biography, Teton Indians--Social life and customs, Indians of North America--Great Plains--Social life and customs
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1988
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E99.T34S72 1988eb
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978/.00497
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Standing Bear, Luther,--1868?-1939--Childhood and youth, Teton Indians--Kings and rulers--Biography, Indians of North America--Great Plains--Biography, Teton Indians--Social life and customs, Indians of North America--Great Plains--Social life and customs
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My Indian Boyhood
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Only a foot would be visible to the enemy (page 36)
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My Indian Boyhood
By Chief Luther Standing Bear Who was the Boy OTA K'TE (Plenty Kill)
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
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Copyright 1931 by Luther Standing Bear Copyright renewed 1959 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: 6 7 8 9 10
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Standing Bear, Luther, 1868?1939. My Indian boyhood / by Luther Standing Bear, who was the boy Ota K'te (Plenty Kill). p. cm. "Bison." Reprint. Originally published: Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1931. ISBN 0-8032-4193-3. ISBN 0-8032-9186-8 (pbk.) 1. Standing Bear, Luther, 1868?1939Biography. 2. Teton Indi ansBiography. 3. Indians of North AmericaGreat PlainsBi ography. 4. Teton IndiansSocial life and customs. 5. Indians of North AmericaGreat PlainsSocial life and customs. I. Title E99.T34S72 1988 978'.00497dc 19 88-12222 CIP
Reprinted by arrangement with Dolores Miller Nyerges and Anita Miller Melbo
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TO THE BOYS AND GIRLS OF AMERICA
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Note
I write this book with the hope that the hearts of the white boys and girls who read these pages will be made kinder toward the little Indian boys and girls.
CHIEF STANDING BEAR
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Contents
I. The Sioux
1
II. Bows and Arrows
17
III. The Indian Boy and His Pony
25
IV. Hunting and Fishing
45
V. Plants, Trees, and Herbs
93
VI. Tanning, Painting, and Designing
112
VII. Games
131
VIII. How Chiefs Are Made
144
IX. Medicine Men and Music
158
X. At Last I Kill a Buffalo
176
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Illustrations
Only a Foot Would Be Visible to the Enemy
Frontispiece
The Deer Did Not Run, But Stood Looking at Me
56
Her Tools Were a Rule and a Brush
126
None of Us Observed a High Bank Right ahead of Us
136
The Pawnee Shot His Arrow
154
One More Shot Brought the Chase to a Close
186
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Chapter I The Sioux
My parents belonged to that great plains tribe which is now called the Sioux. But before the white man came, we called ourselves the Lakotas. The first white men to come to this country thought they had discovered India, a land they had been searching for, so they named the people they found here Indians. Through the mistake of these first white settlers, we have been called Indians ever since.
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