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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 970.3
EAN num: 9780590451628
ISBN number: 0590451626
Label: Scholastic Paperbacks
Manufacturer: Scholastic Paperbacks
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 80
Printing Date: September 01, 1992
Publishing house: Scholastic Paperbacks
Age index: Ages 9-12
Sale Popularity Level: 118825
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In question-and-answer style, the author describes the daily life of the Sioux before and after the coming of the white man. Boys and girls will be surprised to know that each child had a second mother and father who helped take care of him... that everyone had his own 'medicine bundle' to keep danger away... that the men sometimes had more than one wife... that a boy was expected to hunt his very first buffalo calf before he was ten years old.
They'll discover what happened to someone who broke the rules of a tribe, what was considered the bravest thing a Sioux Indian could do, and the ritual ceremonies at which children were accepted as adults.
In a final section the author explains what is happening to these Indians today.
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I gave this book as a gift to students in my history class. They enjoyed it!
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This type of book lacks significant detail on the subject it deals with, in this case its the Sioux Indians of the Wild Frontier. Any child given this book is going to be sent off on a "wild goose chase" in terms of understanding these Indians, their habits, and their activities in the pre-reservation era.
To be honest, this sort of book is so slanted and lacking, that it equals the motion picture "Dances With Wolves" in terms of just how misleading its information really is. Children lacking a basic understanding of this continent's early history will get a highly distorted, Politically Correct, and totally false image of the Indians they are attempting to learn about.
For a much better, entirely REALISTIC and FACT-FILLED look into Frontier history, your children should read The Kiowas (Civilization of the American Indian Series), and Life Among the Apaches (Bison Book) and also Nine Years Among the Indians, 1870-1879: The Story of the Captivity and Life of a Texan Among the Indians, as well as Three Years Among the Comanches: The Narrative of Nelson Lee, the Texas Ranger. And if they are specifically interested in the Sioux, they shouldn't miss Scalp Dance: Indian Warfare on the High Plains, 1865-1879
These books will offer your children FACTS not sanitized fiction concerning the American Indian of yesteryear. They will provide a knowledge of Frontier history which will allow any child to bypass ALL Politically Correct dogma with ease and grasp the reality behind what happened during the early part of this continent's settling and civilizing.
However, it is unfortunate that all the "warm-fuzzy" "Dances With Wolves" enthusiasts seem to gravitate toward this sort of literature, which is far from containing anything nearly realistic or balanced in terms of information. But now you know the antidote - just read the titles I've recommended here and prepare yourself and your children for enlightenment.
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This book could tell you the answers or doubts about the Sioux indians.It tells you in the the point as if you lived with the Sioux indians.I really like this book because it really helps out in projects you need to research.
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