My People The Sioux

STANDING BEAR, LUTHER [EDITED BY E. A. BRININSTOOL]

Publication: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1928, Boston

First edition. 8vo. Decorated orange cloth, titles stamped in brown on the front cover and spine, xiv, 288 pp., preface, introduction, frontispiece [portrait of Chief Standing Bear at Council], illustrated, portraits. Edited by E. A. Brininstool. With an introduction by William S. Hart. The author of this remarkable book is an hereditary Chief of the Oglala Tribe of the Sioux Nation. He was also one of the first Indians to enter the Carlisle School. He tells of the games of his childhood, the sports of the older boys and girls, the building of the tipi, and tribal life, the buffalo hunt and the warpath, his experiences while at Carlisle, as a teacher and leader of his people. He also tells of his trip to England as a member of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. He provides a brief account of the Custer Fight, the death of Crazy Horse, the Ghost Dance of the 1890's, the Battle of Wounded Knee, etc. A newspaper clipping dated June 15, 1925, advises of the death of Judge Gray Eagle, a survivor of the Custer Battle. The clipping was at one time affixed to the front pastedown sheet but is now loosely laid-in, a picture clipping of Chief Standing Bear is affixed to the front free fly leaf, else a near fine, tight copy in a price-clipped dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends, corners, and extremities. An attractive copy.

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