Luther Standing Bear war ein Häuptling der Oglala Lakota, bekannt als Autor, der sich mit der amerikanischen Geschichte auseinandersetzte. Seine Schriften erforschten oft die Perspektiven der amerikanischen Ureinwohner und philosophische Ideen. Er hinterließ eine bedeutende Spur in der Literatur und im kulturellen Verständnis zwischen den Gemeinschaften.
Describing the customs, manners, and traditions of the Teton Sioux, this title also offers general comments about the importance of Native cultures and values and the status of Indian people in American society. It is interspersed with personal reminiscences and anecdotes, including chapters on child rearing, social and political organization.
A memoir of life, experience, and education of a Lakota child in the late 1800s. The author 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.
A series of short stories, related by the author, handed down from generation to generation of the Lakota tribe. This work honours the buffalo, the dog, the horse, the eagle, and the wolf as workaday helpers and agents of divine intervention; the wisdom of the medicine man; and the heroism and resourcefulness of individual men and women.
A description of life of the Lakota Indians in the late nineteenth century from the perspective of an Indian.