Author: SANDOZ, MARI
Title: These Were the Sioux (Bison Book)
Description: Bison, 1985. First Edition, Paperback. Fine Condition. 9780803291515 1st Edition, 120 Pages. Some marking to side edge of the book. Some very light marking to the back cover. The Sioux Indians came into my life before I had any preconceived notions about them, writes Mari Sandoz about the visitors to her family homestead in the Sandhills of Nebraska when she was a child. These Were the Sioux, written in her last decade, takes the reader far inside a world of rituals surrounding puberty, courtship, and marriage, as well as the hunt and the battle. Book Description: The Sioux Indians came into my life before I had any preconceived notions about them, writes Mari Sandoz about the visitors to her family homestead in the Sandhills of Nebraska when she was a child. These Were the Sioux, written in her last decade, takes the reader far inside a world of rituals surrounding puberty, courtship, and marriage, as well as the hunt and the battle. : Review: The Sioux book gives the lore and logic of Indian life. It is rapid reading. Yet it unobtrusively overflows with Miss Sandoz''s lifetime love and respect for these plains pioneers, and with her careful insights into their ways. --R. C./i>--R. C. Nelson Christian Science Monitor Size: 13.3 x 0.6 x 20.3 cm. 120 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; American West; General Custer. ISBN: 0803291515. ISBN/EAN: 9780803291515. Inventory No: 189274.

Keywords: BZDB395 History; American West; General Custer. These Were the Sioux Bison Book Mari Sandoz American West General Custer


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