" ... [The book] is just a message to the white race; to bring my people before their eyes in a true and authentic manner ..."--Preface.

Classic memoir of life, experience, and education of a Lakota child in the late 1800s.

Standing Bear's dismay at the condition of his people, when after sixteen years' absence he returned to the Pine Ridge Sioux Reservation, may well have served a

" ... [The book] is just a message to the white race; to bring my people before their eyes in a true and authentic manner ..."--Preface.

This is a new release of the original 1928 edition.