My People the Sioux

When it was first published in 1928, Luther Standing Bear's autobiographical account of his tribe and tribesmen was hailed by Van Wyck Brooks as "one of the most engaging and veracious we have ever had." It remains a landmark in Indian literature, among the first books about Indians written from the Indian point of view by an Indian.

Born in the 1860s, the son of a Lakota chief, Standing Bear was in the first class at Carlisle Indian School, witnessed the Ghost Dance uprising from the Pine Ridge Reservation, toured Europe with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, and devoted his later years to the Indian rights movement of the 1920s and 1930s.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Bison Books
Published: 11/01/2006
ISBN: 9780803293328
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.12h x 5.36w x 0.68d

Review Citations: Library Journal 11/15/2006 pg. 106