The Sun Dance people : the Plains Indians, their past and present
Bibliographie
- Auteurs : Erdoes Richard (1912-2008) ;
- Editeurs : London Ronald Stacy ;
- Date d'édition : Cop. 1973
- ISBN : 0-903210-03-7
- Sujets : Indiens d'Amérique -- Histoire -- Amérique du Nord -- Grandes Plaines (États-Unis), Indiens d'Amérique
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 vol. (218 p.), : Ill., carte, jaquette ill. en coul., 23 cm
- Pays de publication : Royaume-Uni
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Résumé
La jaquette indique: 'In the days when the Great Plains was an as yet unexplored territory, the Plains Indians lived there. They roamed the vast prairie freely and happily. They lived in harmony with the land, the waters, the buffalo, and all the natural wonders of a land unspoiled by civilization. Then the white man started moving west and the Indians' troubles began. Richard Erdoes has written an informative and inspiring book about the Plains Indians. He has given us a picture of people whose way of life was characterized by honor, generosity, and spiritual integrity. The Plains Indians were a people who placed no value on wealth or material possessions, who had justice with no written laws or jails, who made war only as an honorable sport, and who practiced democracy in its purest sense. In the Sun Dance People, the Plains Indians are looked at both as historical figures and modern people. Mr. Erdoes tells of the days when the Indian lived in a teepee, hunted buffalo, counted coups, and battled with the U.S. cavalry. He also tells of today's Indian, living on a reservation in a tarpaper shack, trying to farm infertile land, having his children taken away to government boarding schools, and 'battling' with the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Richard Erdoes' own strong photographs illustrate the modern Indian world, and old prints and photographs give us a visual record of the past. The Sun Dance People is a study of the culture of a warm and brave people. It is also a chronicle of the Plains Indians' struggle to save their land, their way of life, their very Indianness -a struggle that has not yet ended.'