These Were the Sioux

by Mari Sandoz

Overview

"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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803291515
Publisher:	UNP - Bison Books
Publication date:	09/01/1985
Series:	Bison Book S
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	118
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	11 - 13 Years

Editorial Reviews

"These Were the Sioux compels attention because it is authoritative; it compels admiration because it was written from the heart." —V.P. Hass, Chicago Sunday Tribune

Chicago Sunday Tribune - V.P. Hass

"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. Nelson, Christian Science Monitor

Christian Science Monitor - R. C. Nelson

"It clearly demonstrates the understanding of Indians that can be offered by a gifted, sensitive writer who has had extensive first-hand knowledge of the Indian people about whom she writes." —J. C. Ewers, Saturday Review of Literature

Saturday Review of Literature - J. C. Ewers

"It clearly demonstrates the understanding of Indians that can be offered by a gifted, sensitive writer who has had extensive first-hand knowledge of the Indian people about whom she writes." —J. C. Ewers, Saturday Review of Literature

— J. C. Ewers

Saturday Review of Literature

"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. Nelson, Christian Science Monitor

— R. C. Nelson

Christian Science Monitor

"These Were the Sioux compels attention because it is authoritative; it compels admiration because it was written from the heart." —V.P. Hass, Chicago Sunday Tribune

— V.P. Hass

Chicago Sunday Tribune