"The Way of an Indian" is one of the few books that look at the colonial expansion of American wild west through the eyes of a Native Indian. The book faithfully captures their spiritual beliefs, agency and speech to show what it was like to be the original inhabitants of a land that was taken away from them. A must read western classic! Excerpt: "White Otter's heart was bad. He sat alone on the rim-rocks of the bluffs overlooking the sunlit valley. To an unaccustomed eye from below he might have been a part of nature's freaks among the sand rocks. The yellow grass sloped away from his feet mile after mile to the timber, and beyond that to the prismatic mountains...." Frederic Remington was an American painter, illustrator, sculptor, and writer who specialized in depictions of the Old American West, specifically concentrating on the last quarter of the 19th-century American West and images of cowboys, American Indians, and the U. S. Cavalry. Remington's fame made him a favorite of the Western Army officers fighting the last Indian battles.
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Frederic Remington. The Way of an Indian (Western Classic)
The Way of an Indian (Western Classic)
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Table of Contents
I. White Otter’s Own Shadow
II. The Brown Bat Proves Itself
III. The Bat Devises Mischief Among the Yellow-Eyes
IV. The New Lodge
V. “The Kites and the Crows”
VI. The Fire Eater’s Bad Medicine
VII. Among the Pony-Soldiers
VIII. The Medicine-Fight of the Chis-chis-chash
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Frederic Remington
II. The Brown Bat Proves Itself
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The next day, when the sun had come again, White Otter walked down the mountain, and at the foot met his father with ponies and buffalo meat. The old man had followed on his trail, but had gone no farther.
“I am strong now, father. I can protect my body and my shadow—the Good God has come to Wo-pe-ni-in.”