When the Tree Flowered, An Authentic Tale of the Old Sioux World
By John G. Neihardt
Length11h 38m
About this audiobook
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."
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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”
2II When the Hundred Died
3III The New Medicine Power
4IV Wandering to Mourn
5V Was the Great Voice Angry?
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6VI Chased by a Cow
7VII Going on Vision Quest
8VIII “Hold Fast; There Is More!”
9IX The Old Bull’s Last Fight
10X The Boys Who Had Sister Trouble
11XI Helping a Brother-Friend
12XII The Mysterious Mother-Power
13XIII Four Against the Crows
14XIV “Am I Greater Than the People?”
15XV The Sun Dance
16XVI Thanking the Food
17XVII The Woman Four Times Widowed
18XVIII Falling Star, the Savior
19XIX The Labors of the Holy One
20XX The Battle in the Blizzard
21XXI The Cleansing of a Kills-Home
22XXII Why the Island Hill Was Sacred
23XXIII Fighting the Gray Fox
24XXIV “It Was a Great Victory”
25XXV The Woman Who Died Twice
26XXVI The Moon of Black Cherries
27XXVII The Dark Hills of Water
28XXVIII In the Village Called Pars
29XXIX The Girl’s Road
30FOOTNOTES:
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