Research Catalog

Title

Grandpa was a cowboy and an Indian and other stories / Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve.

Author

Sneve, Virginia Driving Hawk.

Publication

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2000.

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Details

Description

ix, 116 pages; 21 cm

Summary

• "Lakota storyteller Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve treats readers to a collection of her best stories.
• She first spins tales of Lakota and Dakota generations today, of what the youngest can learn from their elders, if they choose to listen: a boy is embarrassed to accept the gift of a medicine bag from his dying grandfather; a little girl learns about the Lakota seasons; a grandfather and his takoza (grandchild) hunt for a legendary wild stallion; a boy named Little Jim comes of age; and a fireside story about a rodeo becomes a moving lesson in Native American history and identity.".
• "The second group of stories, set in the turbulent and tragic years of the nineteenth century, teaches the need for understanding across cultures. Boarding school students are transfixed as cowboys and Lakotas come in out of a cold night to celebrate Christmas together. Through perseverance and persuasion, the Lakota Fool Soldiers rescue white captives from the Santees in a vivid retelling of the famous story.
• The collection ends with spellbinding ancient Sioux tales about the birth of the universe, the deeds of legendary beings, and an unforgettable story about Old Woman, whose quill work maps out the end of the world."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Indians of North America > Fiction
• United States > Social life and customs > 20th century > Fiction

Contents

The Medicine Bag -- The Twelve Moons -- Clean Hands -- The Slim Butte Ghost -- Jimmy Yellow Hawk -- Grandpa Was a Cowboy and an Indian -- The First Christmas -- Fool Soldiers -- Sun Gazer -- Takoza Said "Goo" -- The Tribe of the Burnt Thigh -- The White Buffalo Calf Woman -- The Speck in the Sky -- Badlands Bones -- The Flower Nation -- All the Time in the World -- Glossary with Phonetic Pronunciation.

ISBN

0803242743 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

00023483

OCLC

• 43589307
• ocm43589307
• SCSB-3935852

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries