When the Tree Flowered, An Authentic Tale of the Old Sioux World
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When the Tree Flowered, An Authentic Tale of the Old Sioux World

By John G. Neihardt
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Length11h 38m

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Excerpt: "A one-room log cabin, with an indolently smoking chimney, squatted in sullen destitution a hundred yards away. Before the door a ramshackle wagon stood waiting for nothing with its load of snow. Down yonder in the brushy draw an all-but-roofless shed stared listlessly upon the dull February sky. With a man-denying look, the empty reservation landscape round about lay hushed and bluing in the cold. Raising the flap of the tepee, with its rusty stovepipe thrust through its much-patched canvas, I stooped in a puff of pleasant warmth and entered, placing my last armload of cottonwood chunks behind the sheet-iron stove. The old man threw back his blankets and sat up cross-legged upon the cowhide robes that served for bed, his gray hair straggling thinly to his shoulders about an aquiline face that had been handsome, surely, before time carved it to the bone."

Audiobook details

GenreTravel, Biography and Memoir
Length11 hrs 38 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 5, 2024
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1I “I Used to Be Her Horse”
16XVI Thanking the Food
2II When the Hundred Died
17XVII The Woman Four Times Widowed
3III The New Medicine Power
18XVIII Falling Star, the Savior
4IV Wandering to Mourn
19XIX The Labors of the Holy One
5V Was the Great Voice Angry?
20XX The Battle in the Blizzard
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6VI Chased by a Cow
21XXI The Cleansing of a Kills-Home
7VII Going on Vision Quest
22XXII Why the Island Hill Was Sacred
8VIII “Hold Fast; There Is More!”
23XXIII Fighting the Gray Fox
9IX The Old Bull’s Last Fight
24XXIV “It Was a Great Victory”
10X The Boys Who Had Sister Trouble
25XXV The Woman Who Died Twice
11XI Helping a Brother-Friend
26XXVI The Moon of Black Cherries
12XII The Mysterious Mother-Power
27XXVII The Dark Hills of Water
13XIII Four Against the Crows
28XXVIII In the Village Called Pars
14XIV “Am I Greater Than the People?”
29XXIX The Girl’s Road
15XV The Sun Dance
30FOOTNOTES:

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