These Were the Sioux

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These Were the Sioux
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 132
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ISBN-10 : 0803291515
ISBN-13 : 9780803291515
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Book Synopsis These Were the Sioux by : Mari Sandoz

Book excerpt: "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.


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