Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Deer, John (Fire) Lame

Lame Deer, seeker of visions by John (Fire) Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes. - Rev. ed. - New York Pocket Books, c1994. - xxix, 317 p., [32] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.

"Washington Square Press enriched classic".

Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-308) and index.

1. Alone on the hilltop --
2. That gun in the New York Museum belongs to me --
3. The green frog skin --
4. Getting drunk, going to jail --
5. Sitting on top of Teddy Roosevelt's head --
6. The circle and the square --
7. Talking to the owls and butterflies --
8. Two in a blanket --
9. Medicine, good and bad --
10. Inipi : Grandfather's breath --
11. Yuwipi : little lights from nowhere --
12. Looking at the sun, they dance --
13. Don't hurt the trees --
14. Roll up the world --
15. The upside-down, forward-backward, icy-hot contrary --
16. Blood turned into stone.

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.

0671888021 (pbk.) : $5.50


Deer, John (Fire) Lame 1903-1976


Lakota Indians.
Native Americans --Teton
Native Americans --Dakota
Sioux (Indiens)
Indians, North American.



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