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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 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. Delphine Red Shirt is a member of the Oglala Sioux tribe and the author of "Turtle Lung Woman's Granddaughter" and "Bead on an Anthill: A Lakota Childhood", both available in Bison Books editions.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: My Indian Boyhood
• Author: Luther Standing Bear
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 198
• EAN: 9780803293342
• ISBN: 0803293348
• ID: 04924760
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Weight: 254 g
• Dimensions: 133 × 203 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. November 2006

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