These Were the Sioux

by Mari Sandoz

Book Overview

"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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803291515
• ISBN13: 9780803291515
• Release Date: September 1985
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 118 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 11 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 6 to 8

Customer Reviews

These Were the Sioux

Being a native person, I'm always pleased to read a wonderful book about First Nation Peoples. Can't recommend it highly enough though it is brief. HOWEVER--be very cautious when ordering a used copy of this book. I received, for $5.00 plus shipping, a $.50 Dell version with a horrible cover--inappropriate for today's readers. Type was small and it just left me with alot of disappointment since I'd seen the the beautifully published newer edition. BUYER BEWARE!!

A Good Start

This gives me some sense of what it would be like to live with the Sioux. Simple enough for a child to read. No magic, but worth reading.

Great book. See also Crazy Horse and Cheyenne Autumn

This is a clarification of the review below by:natasha trotskygrad from moscow, Ussr.Mari Sandoz was a FEMALE author from northern Nebraska. :)And this is a great Sioux book, but even more highly recommended is Sandoz' CRAZY HORSE biography. Sandoz was quite respected by the native population and did extensive research for all of her books. Her book on Crazy Horse even used first hand oral accounts with those who knew Crazy Horse.

Beautiful description of a wonderful people

Mari Sandoz' use of language and personal experience resulted in a beautiful description of a wonderful people. At times heart warming and at other times quite sad, it is one of the most engaging accounts of Indian life I ever read. If you want a glimpse of the heart of a people, buy this book!

Sioux were these by the amazing Mari Sandoz

I can reccomend any book on the great tribes of the plains and the mid-west that is written by Mari Sandoz . I should have said that he tells the story as though it were his story .His style and prose trancend the mist of the past and put the reader in ground zero to understand mind and soul of the historical events ,legends and bit players of North american indian history and heritage. That's enough of my fillabuster;read his books on the Great Tribes and Peoples .