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When the Tree Flowered: The Fictional Autobiography of Eagle Voice, a Sioux Indian
When the Tree Flowered The Fictional Autobiography of Eagle Voice a Sioux Indian Author:John Gneisenau Neihardt Neihardt's best prose work, from material gathered at Pine Ridge Reservation in the forties from Eagle Elk and other Sioux Indians. It draws delightful pictures of Sioux life, weaves in charming Indian folk tales and legends, and describes an enlightened society where generosity was the way to status and young men chosen to hunt for the poor... more » were honored. The gently humorous wisdom that pervades the culture comes to life.
"....for the Great Mysterious One meant all things to be round--the sky and prarie, the sun and moon, the bodies of men and animals, trees and the nests of birds, and the hoop of the people. The days and the seasons come back in a circle, and so do the generations. The young grow old, and from the old young begin and grow. It is the sacred way."