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When Buffalo Ran Kindle Edition

by George Bird Grinnell (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 134 ratings
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    53 pages
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  4. Publication date
    March 24, 2011
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    260 KB
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George Bird Grinnell was an anthropologist, explorer, historian, naturalist and writer. He was known as the father of American conservation and spent his life defending and protecting America's wild lands and fighting for Native American advocacy. He lived in New York until his death in 1983.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004TRIC32
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 24, 2011
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 260 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 53 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1406834866
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 134 ratings

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4.2 out of 5 stars
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Carol Broome
5.0 out of 5 stars Good!
Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2024
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Laurie Kelley
4.0 out of 5 stars Classic Frontier Literature
Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2021
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“When Buffalo Ran” is the true, first-person account of life as a young native American in the 1800s. Published in 1920, it's the recollection of life on the Plains as a (most likely) Cheyenne. Fatherless at a young age, Wikis is raised by his uncle, who he calls “father,” and learns over time to become a man: he learns how to ride a horse, hunt buffalo, deer and antelope, shoot arrows, and steal horses. Stealing horses was commonplace as a way to increase wealth. And wealth was needed to secure a wife one day.

The story is infused with wisdom from his uncle, who feels it is his duty to raise his nephew to be a proper man. He shares tribal ethics: "When older people speak to you, you must stop what you are doing and listen to what they say, and must do as they tell you.” "You must get up early in the morning; do not let the sun, when it first shines, find you in bed. Get up at the first dawn of day, and go early out into the hills and look for your horses.” “If by chance you should do anything that is great, you must not talk of it; you must never go about telling of the great things that you have done, or that you intend to do. To do that is not manly.”

You sense of the strong community norms and beliefs that made up the tribe, and how much survival depended on these norms. The book ends with the knowledge that the white man was coming, and with him, the death of their way of life. This is a short read, but powerful. A great book to add to my collection about native American history.

The author is a fascinating person himself. Grinnell was an accomplished conservationalist and author. He studied and wrote about the Plains people to educate others. He influenced public opinion to save the American bison when they were on the verge of extinction. He accompanied Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer in 1874 Black Hills expedition as a naturalist. He declined a similar appointment to the ill-fated 1876 Little Big Horn battle.
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R M
3.0 out of 5 stars OLD
Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2014
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Not bad. Just old fashioned. Not uninteresting, you just need to change gears to read and think about what your reading.
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Gary Upshaw
5.0 out of 5 stars Engaging
Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2021
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The author, George Bird Grinnel (1849-1938), an American an anthropologist, historian, naturalist, and writer, who was a conservatist and worked to preserve the rapidly vanishing bison. He wrote this book in 1920 to show the relationship of the buffalo to Plains tribal culture, and is written from the view point of a Indian male growing from childhood to adult. The book is short and engaging and very enjoyable to read.
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G.C.Broussard
4.0 out of 5 stars Indian life recorded
Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2014
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An excellent and interesting recorded history of the everyday life of the plains Indians through the autobiography of one of its young warriors prior to engagements with the white man. Easy reading.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Valuable history and wisdom
Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2016
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I read the Kindle version. The Table of Contents lists pictures, but I was not able to access those.

The book was published in 1920 and tells the story of the author's (Native American) life from his earliest memories until the point where white's moved West and battles were waged between the two groups, which occurred shortly after he reached adulthood and married. Much is told about everyday life of a young Plains Indian boy/teen/young man and the lessons he was taught by older men. This would be a good book for teen boys today to read if they desire the qualities of a wise man.
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Kindle Customer " DeadwoodRed"
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent detailed story of life as a plains warrior before the white man. Bird Grinnell gave Edward Curtis, (famous native Amer
Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2016
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his first introduction to native Americans living off the reservation; living daily lives with ceremony, dancing and religious practices...etc. He encouraged Curtis to get to know all tribes as a People, learning through them, about them. Immortalizing their Whole lives , not just through photography, but writing about them before many of the tribes and pueblos vanished under our govt policy of extermination.
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