Becoming Brave: The Path to Native American Manhood (Paperback)

~ Laine Thom (Author, Compiler) "The buffalo was a gift of love from the Great Spirit to his red children..." (more)
Key Phrases: Big Foot, Plains Indian, Wounded Knee (more...)

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Product Description

Vividly photographed artifacts, authentic writings, and myths of diverse native American cultures evocatively recreate the life of the native American man in all its aspects, including warfare, hunting, and rites of passage. Simultaneous.

About the Author

Laine Thom of the Shoshoni Tribe is the assistant curator, respectively, for the David T. Vernon-Rockefeller Collection at Colter Bay Indian Arts Museum in Grand Teton National Park Wyoming.

Product Details

• Paperback: 120 pages
• Publisher: Chronicle Books; 3rd Printing edition (August 1, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0811801632
• ISBN-13: 978-0811801638
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 9.6 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #200,447 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What it was to be Indian...., November 5, 2003

By	J. Guild (Toronto,Canada) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Becoming Brave (Hardcover)

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.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What it was to be Indian...., November 5, 2003

By	J. Guild (Toronto,Canada) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Becoming Brave (Hardcover)

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.