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Lame Deer, seeker of visions / by John Fire/Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes.

Summary:

An autobiography of Lame Deer, a medicine man, who is a full-blooded Sioux Indian born at the beginning of the century on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0671211978
  • Physical Description: 288 pages. : illustrations. ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Simon and Schuster, [1972]

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
Alone on the hilltop -- That gun in the New York Museum belongs to me -- The green frog skin -- Getting drunk, going to jail -- Sitting on top of Teddy Roosevelt's head -- The circle and the square -- Talking to the owls and butterflies -- Two in a blanket -- Medicine, good and bad -- Inipi : Grandfather's breath -- Yuwipi : little lights from nowhere -- Looking at the sun, they dance -- Don't hurt the trees -- Roll up the world -- The upside-down, forward-backward, icy-hot contrary -- Blood turned into stone.
Subject: Lame Deer, approximately 1903-1976.
Lakota Indians.
Genre: Autobiographies.

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  • 2 of 2 copies available at NC Cardinal.
  • 0 of 0 copies available at McDowell County Public Library.

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Government and Heritage Library 970.3 F523l (Text) 33091001032713 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Spruce Pine Public Library B LAME DEER (Text) 34444001457332 Adult Biography Available -