These Were the Sioux

"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.

A Note on the Illustrations and the Artists

7

(2)

Foreword

9

(14)

THE GO-ALONG ONES

A New One Is Born

23

(4)

His Second Parents

27

(8)

A Part of His Village

35

(4)

His Teachers

39

(8)

The Man within the Youth

47

(12)

THE FREE WALKERS

The Hunter

59

(4)

In the Buffalo Surround

63

(5)

Courting the Girls

68

(10)

Marriage

78

(7)

The Mother-in-Law

85

(4)

The Young Woman

89

(10)

Wifehood

99

(5)

The Indian and His Universe

104

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