Indian Old-Man Stories: More Sparks from War Eagle's Lodge-Fire (the Authorized Edition)

by Frank Bird Linderman and Charles M. Linderman, Frank B. and Russell

Book Overview

The Indians of the northwestern plains always laughed at the tales about Old-man, heard around the lodge fire in the wintertime after sunset. For a powerful character, he was comically flawed. Old-man made the world but sometimes forgot the names of things. Victim and victimizer, he seemed closer to common experience than the awesome god Manitou. Frank B. Linderman thought Old-man was, under different names, a god for many Indian...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803280017
• ISBN13: 9780803280014
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 169 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.0"