Land of the Spotted Eagle

Land of the Spotted Eagle
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Land of the Spotted Eagle is an ethnographic description of traditional Lakota life and customs, criticizing whites' efforts to «make over» the Indian into the likeness of the white race. Luther Standing Bear was a Sicangu and Oglala Lakota chief notable in history as a Native American author, educator, philosopher, and actor of the twentieth century. Standing Bear fought to preserve Lakota heritage and sovereignty; he was at the forefront of a Progressive movement to change government policy toward Native Americans. "In this book I attempt to tell my readers just how we lived as Lakotans—our customs, manners, experiences, and traditions—the things that make all men what they are. There are reasons why men live as they do, think as they do, and practice as they do; hence, there were forces that made the Lakota the man he was. White men seem to have difficulty in realizing that people who live differently from themselves still might be traveling the upward and progressive road of life. After nearly four hundred years' living upon this continent, it is still popular conception, on the part of the Caucasian mind, to regard the native American as a savage, meaning that he is low in thought and feeling, and cruel in acts; that he is a heathen, meaning that he is incapable, therefore void, of high philosophical thought concerning life and life's relations. For this 'savage' the white man has little brotherly love and little understanding. From the Indian the white man stands off and aloof, scarcely deigning to speak or to touch his hand in human fellowship. To the white man many things done by the Indian are inexplicable, though he continues to write much of the visible and exterior life with explanations that are more often than not erroneous. The inner life of the Indian is, of course, a closed book to the white man. So from the pages of this book I speak for the Lakota—the tribe of my birth. I have told of his outward life and tried to tell something of his inner life—ideals, religion, concepts of kindness and brotherhood; of laws of conduct and how we strove to arrive at arrangements of equity and justice."



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Luther Standing Bear. Land of the Spotted Eagle

Land of the Spotted Eagle

Table of Contents

PREFACE

EXPLANATORY NOTE

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER I. CRADLE DAYS

CHAPTER II. BOYHOOD

CHAPTER III. HUNTER, SCOUT, WARRIOR

VIRTUES

SENSES

LANGUAGE

CHAPTER IV. HOME AND FAMILY

COURTSHIP

MARRIAGE

PARENTHOOD

CHAPTER V. CIVIL ARRANGEMENTS: BANDS, CHIEFS, LODGES

CHIEFS

BUFFALO LODGE

BRAVE LODGE

WHITE HORSE LODGE

FOX LODGE

KATELA, OR WOMAN’S LODGE

CHAPTER VI. SOCIAL CUSTOMS

MANNERS

MORALS

DRESS

CHAPTER VII. INDIAN WISDOM

NATURE

RELIGION

CEREMONY

CHAPTER VIII. LATER DAYS

CHAPTER IX. WHAT THE INDIAN MEANS TO AMERICA

THE SAVAGE

THE INDIAN SCHOOL OF THOUGHT

THE LIVING SPIRIT OF THE INDIAN—HIS ART

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Luther Standing Bear

An Ethnographic Description of Traditional Lakota Life and Customs

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The morning of my naming ceremony the singing of praise songs announced to the village that the ceremony was to take place. The singers stood by our tipi door and sang songs of praise for my father. When the people of the village had assembled, a praise singer called out, ‘Hear All! Hear all! The son of Standing Bear will be named. Hear all! Hear all! His name will be Plenty Kill.’ Mother came out of the tipi holding me in her arms. In the meantime father had selected an old man who was to receive the horse to be given away in honor of the event. Some one led the horse up and the end of the rope about its neck was placed in my tiny hands. He took the rope from my hands and extending his arms toward me said, ‘Ha-ye-e-e, Ha-ye-e-e,’ which meant both thanks and blessings for me. He led the horse away while the singers still sang songs of praise.

About nine months after my birth the second ceremony took place. At this time my ears were pierced and it was a much more impressive ceremony than the first. It was held during the sun dance when many bands were gathered together. It was customary to hold many minor ceremonies of various sorts before the actual Sun Dance began. There was much singing and much dancing by groups of performers. Also there was a great deal of giving and receiving of presents.

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