When Standing Bear returned to the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation after sixteen years' absence, his dismay at the condition of his people may well have served as a catalyst for the writing of this book, first published in 1933. In addition to describing the customs, manners, and traditions of the Teton Sioux, Standing Bear also offered general comments about the importance of Native cultures and values and the status of Indian peoples in American society. With the assistance of Melvin R. Gil...

God's greatest gift to man or woman is their free will. Man's greatest gift to God is the willful surrender of their free will back to God to do God's will. (p. 7)Your lies are what create the pebbles, the rocks, the boulders that interfere with the stream of God that flows within you. Lies strengthen your ego, blocking the flow of God. (p. 14)It is important to become the glory on the mountaintop, not the little light in the valley. (p. 14)The joke is you can never...

This carefully crafted ebook: "Selected Writings of Luther Standing Bear" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Between 1928 and 1936, Standing Bear wrote four books about protecting Lakota culture and in opposition to government regulation of Native Americans. Standing Bear's commentaries challenged government policies regarding education, assimilation, freedom of religion, tribal sovereignty, return of lands and efforts to convert the Lakota into...