Old Indian Legends (Bison Classic Editions)

by Zitkala-Sa (Author), Zitkala-Sa (Author), Agnes M. Picotte (Foreword)

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  Special Edition
  1985

  $3.25

  Like all folk tales they mirror the child life of the world. There is in them a note of wild, strange music...I have read them with exquisite pleasure. - Helen Keller. The legends are told in an easy, engaging style with a certain dramatic power. - Agnes M. Picotte, University of South Dakota. Early in the century a magnificent Sioux woman named Zitkala-Sa published these legends that she learned during her childhood on the Yankton Reservation. Her eastern education developed a writing talent that was put to good use in recording from oral tradition the exploits of Iktomi the trickster, Eya the glutton, the Dragon Fly, the Blood Clot boy, and other magical and mysterious figures, human and animal, known to the Sioux. Until her death in 1938, Zitkala-Sa stood between two cultures as preserver and translator. Zitkala-ea (also known as Gertrude Bonnin) later published the largely autobiographical American Indian Stories , also available as a Bison Book.

• New

  Special Edition
  1985

  $18.70

  Like all folk tales they mirror the child life of the world. There is in them a note of wild, strange music...I have read them with exquisite pleasure. - Helen Keller. The legends are told in an easy, engaging style with a certain dramatic power. - Agnes M. Picotte, University of South Dakota. Early in the century a magnificent Sioux woman named Zitkala-Sa published these legends that she learned during her childhood on the Yankton Reservation. Her eastern education developed a writing talent that was put to good use in recording from oral tradition the exploits of Iktomi the trickster, Eya the glutton, the Dragon Fly, the Blood Clot boy, and other magical and mysterious figures, human and animal, known to the Sioux. Until her death in 1938, Zitkala-Sa stood between two cultures as preserver and translator. Zitkala-ea (also known as Gertrude Bonnin) later published the largely autobiographical American Indian Stories , also available as a Bison Book.