Becoming Brave: The Path to Native American Manhood

By Laine Thom

Book Overview

Vivid photographs and detailed descriptions of weapons, clothing, and hunting tools reveal the central events and myths around which Native American men shaped their lives. These important objects recount the intertribal warfare, adolescent rites of passage, hunting and equestrian prowess, and survival skills of Native Americans in the American West. In addition to an introduction, bibliography, and index, the book recounts a war party legend, two stories involving the famous battles at Wounded Knee and Little Bighorn, and an excerpt from Black Elk Speaks. A haunting evocation of the warrior spirit, Becoming Brave will captivate and inform anyone with an interest in anthropology, early American history, or indigenous culture.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811801632
• ISBN13: 9780811801638
• Release Date: August 1992
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 1.0" x 1.0"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

What it was to be Indian....

This is an excellent book portraying what it meant to be an Indian.Reading this book and dwelling on the magnificient photographs of scenery,objects,dress both ceremonial and war,weapons,art and particularly the portraits,both of individuals and groups shows what a great people the Indians were and what a proud culture they created. In some ways ,it is almost like walking through the Colter Bay Indian Arts Museum in Grand Teton National Park and viewing these beautiful items. It's such a shame that this way of life disappeared with the coming of the white man. "I was wounded and pretty weak too.While I was lying on my back,I looked down the ravine and saw a lot of women coming up and crying.When I saw these women,girls and little girls and boys coming up,I saw soldiers on both sides of the ravine shoot at them until they had killed every one of them," said Dewey Beard in his testimonial on the Wounded Knee massacre. Words and pictures cannot do this tragedy justice.