In the Beginning, the Sun: The Dakota Legend of Creation

by Charles Alexander Eastman

A never-before-published book by famed Native American author Charles Eastman recounts the stories of the Dakota creation cycle as they were told a century and a half ago.

In the 1860s and 1870s, the boy who would become known as Charles Eastman was growing up in a Dakota community in Canada. On long winter evenings, he listened to elder Smoky Day tell the twelve legends of the Dakota creation cycle. They include stories of the marriage...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1681342332
• ISBN13: 9781681342337
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.4"