passed on through tales

Although the traditional Sioux nation was in its last days when Luther Standing Bear was born in the 1860s

bear and beaver

so you can expand your Ojibwe vocabulary

The Red Road and Other Narratives of the Dakota Sioux essays passed on through talesThis book presents two of the most important traditions of the Dakota people, the Red Road and the Holy Dance, as told by Samuel Mniyo and Robert Goodvoice, two Dakota men from the Wahpeton Dakota Nation near Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, Canada. Their accounts of these central spiritual traditions and other aspects of Dakota life and history go back seven generations and help to illuminate the worldview of the Dakota people for the younger generation