Description:
"The Sioux Indians came into my life before I had any preconceived notions about them," writes Mari Sandoz about the visitors to her family homestead in the Sandhills of Nebraska when she was a child. These Were the Sioux, written in her last decade, takes the reader far inside a world of rituals surrounding puberty, courtship, and marriage, as well as the hunt and the battle.
Review Quotes: "These Were the Sioux compels attention because it is authoritative; it compels admiration because it was written from the heart." --V.P. Hass, Chicago Sunday Tribune