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	• The Sioux: Life and Customs of a Warrior Society (Civilization of the American Indian Series) Royal B. Hassrick Red River Books, 1988 - 374 pages average customer review:based on 2 reviews view larger image
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I have been a follower of Red Cloud for over twenty years now and feel a great affinity for the Sioux Indians for some reason.

My previous thoughts about what is was like to be a Sioux member were badly mistaken. This book takes the time to lay out the fundamental aspects of this tribe's, history, land movements, and cultural elements.

The cultural elements include their beliefs and are quite profound. Descriptions are given to how an individual is treated as an infant, young child, young adult, and adult. The distinctions between male and female roles are explained fully.

By the reading and absorption of the book's various chapters, I now have a much better appreciation for the difficulties the Sioux population experienced preceding the 20th Century.

Anyone who truly desires to understand one of the most powerful Plains Indians tribes should read this book.

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The Best Book on the Sioux

I have an old copy of Royal B. Hassrick's book, THE SIOUX: LIFE AND CUSTOMS OF A WARRIOR SOCIETY. I got it in a bookstore in Denver in 1972. It's the best book book on the Sioux I've ever read.

It's carefully researched, scholarly and it concentrates on the period from the 1830s to the 1870s, the period when the Sioux were the dominant force on the Plains. These are the Sioux who are still the archetypical Plains Indians.

When some Frenchman thinks of "Plains Indians", he's probably got the Sioux in mind. Even other Plains Indians try to co-opt the look for themselves.

If you are the least bit interested in Plains Indians, the Sioux, or any of the more famous bands like the Lakota or Teton Sioux, you MUST HAVE this book. I have a good collection of books on Plains Indians and I've lived and worked on a Sioux reservation in western South Dakota. If I could only keep one book about Plains Indians, it would be Hassrick's.

It's old and scholarly in tone, but it's that good. It hearkens back to a time when "Indian Studies" still meant something. Loudmouth wannabees like Ward Churchill weren't tolerated on faculties and academic achievement was still held in high esteem.

I gave this book five stars. If I could, I'd give it ten.

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