"Seventy years ago, when some of the events here recounted took place, Indians were Indians, and the plains were the plains indeed.
In such surroundings the boy Wikis was born and grew up. The people that he knew well were those of his own camp. Once a year perhaps, for a few weeks, he saw the larger population of a great camp, but for the most part half a dozen families of the tribe, with the buffalo, the deer, the wolves, and the smaller animals and birds, were the companions with whom he lived and from whom he learned life's lessons.
The incidents of this simple story are true." - Summary by Adapted from the Preface
In such surroundings the boy Wikis was born and grew up. The people that he knew well were those of his own camp. Once a year perhaps, for a few weeks, he saw the larger population of a great camp, but for the most part half a dozen families of the tribe, with the buffalo, the deer, the wolves, and the smaller animals and birds, were the companions with whom he lived and from whom he learned life's lessons.
The incidents of this simple story are true." - Summary by Adapted from the Preface
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
Introduction: The Plains Country
02:58 - Chapter 2
Attack on the Camp
12:21 - Chapter 3
Standing Alone
08:10 - Chapter 4
The Way to Live
12:03 - Chapter 5
Lessons of the Prairie
15:38 - Chapter 6
On a Buffalo Horse
19:01 - Chapter 7
In the Medicine Circle
13:47 - Chapter 8
Among Enemy Lodges
18:19 - Chapter 9
A Grown Man
08:38 - Chapter 10
A Sacrifice
14:10 - Chapter 11
A Warrior Ready to Die
16:08 - Chapter 12
A Lie That Came True
20:22 - Chapter 13
My Marriage
10:11