Books by Richard Erdoes

De mémoire indienne

Product Description <br/>Né dans une réserve du Dakota au début du XXe siècle, Tahca Ushte, alias John Fire Lame Deer, a vécu mille vies. Tour à tour clown de rodéo, soldat, peintre, berger, chanteur, il est avant tout un homme-médecine. Gardien de la spiritualité et des traditions de son peuple sioux, il livre dans ces mémoires un témoignage empli de sagesse, de sensibilité et d'humour. Un chant de résistance face à la culture imposée par les Wasichus – les Blancs. Inclus un cahier photos <br/> About the Author <br/>Richard Erdoes, artiste né à Vienne en 1912, rencontre John Fire Lame Deer (ou Tahca Ushte) à New York en 1967 lors de la marche pour la paix de Martin Luther King. Ce livre exceptionnel et sensible, fruit de la profonde amitié entre les deux hommes, sera son premier d'une longue série consacrée au monde amérindien.

De mémoire indienne en quête d'une vision

De mémoire indienne En quête d'une vision

Rigoureuse et authentique, l'autobiographie de John Fire Lame Deer, parue aux États-Unis en 1972, demeure un événement ethnologique car elle nous donne à entendre ce qu'est la vie d'un homme-médecine amérindien dans le monde actuel. L'éditeur, qui en est aussi le traducteur, propose une nouvelle version de ce livre culte (depuis longtemps épuisé) au style très vivant et proche de l'original. Broché - 15 x 22 - 416 pages

De mémoire indienne En quête d'une vision

"De mmoire indienne est une oeuvre singulirement belle, dont le pouvoir d'envotement captive l'esprit longtemps aprs sa lecture. [...] Drle, rigoureuse et authentique la fois, l'autobiographie de Lame Deer est un tmoignage capital sur la belle sant morale et l'esprit de subversion d'un peuple face aux valeurs que les wasichus, les Blancs, lui ont imposes." Pierrette Dsy - "La Quinzaine littraire". Plus d'une trentaine d'annes aprs sa premire dition en version franaise, ces mmoires d'avenir, devenues un classique plus que jamais d'actualit, demandaient tre revisites. "En qute d'une vision" est une nouvelle traduction actualise de la version d'origine "Seeker of visions" publie aux Etats-Unis en 1972. Nourrie des intuitions remarquables de Lame Deer, cette histoire ethnographique empreinte d'humour est aussi une parole, une pierre et un feu tendus aux nouvelles gnrations de toutes les directions... Traductions de Jean-Jacques Roudire.

De mémoire indienne En quête d'une vision

De mémoire indienne la vie d'un Sioux voyant et guérisseur

Lame Deer Memoirs of a Sioux Medicine Man

LEST WE FORGET-memorable lives from Western history dramatized in three plays. LAME DEER. Hellraiser, philosopher, sheepherder, sheriff, rodeo clown, lover, medicine man--a Lakota Sioux holy man and sage recounts his life in a series of wry, wise, humorous and always entertaining anecdotes. ADAPTED FROM LAME DEER. SEEKER OF VISIONS. by John (Fire) Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes. SITTING BULL The life of the great Sioux chief, from youth to the Battle of the Little Bighorn to his final conflict with the US government. BUFFALO SOLDIER Two young recruits join the proud black US Ninth Cavalry and march toward different destinies.

Lame Deer Memoirs of a Sioux Medicine Man

LEST WE FORGET-memorable lives from Western history dramatized in three plays.LAME DEER. Hellraiser, philosopher, sheepherder, sheriff, rodeo clown, lover, medicine man--a Lakota Sioux holy man and sage recounts his life in a series of wry, wise, humorous and always entertaining anecdotes. ADAPTED FROM LAME DEER. SEEKER OF VISIONS. by John (Fire) Lame Deer and Richard ErdoesSITTING BULL. The life of the great Sioux chief, from youth to the Battle of the Little Bighorn to his final conflict with the US government.BUFFALO SOLDIER. Two young recruits join the proud black US Ninth Cavalry and march toward different destinies.

Lame Deer Memoirs of a Sioux Medicine Man

Hellraiser, philosopher, sheepherder, sheriff, rodeo clown, lover, medicine man--Lame Deer was all of these and in this one-man play adapted from his book of memoirs, the Lakota Sioux holy man and sage recounts his life in a series of wry, wise, humorous and always entertaining anecdotes.

LAME DEER: MEMOIRS OF A SIOUX MEDICINE MAN

Lame Deer Seeker of Visions

Lame Deer<br/>Storyteller, rebel, medicine man, Lame Deer was born almost a century ago on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. A full-blooded Sioux, he was many things in the white man's world -- rodeo clown, painter, prisioner. But, above all, he was a holy man of the Lakota tribe.<br/>Seeker of Vision<br/>The story he tells is one of harsh youth and reckless manhood, shotgun marriage and divorce, history and folklore as rich today as ever -- and of his fierce struggle to keep pride alive, though living as a stranger in his own ancestral land.

Lame Deer Seeker of Visions

Lame Deer<br/>Storyteller, rebel, medicine man, Lame Deer was born almost a century ago on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. A full-blooded Sioux, he was many things in the white man's world — rodeo clown, painter, prisioner. But, above all, he was a holy man of the Lakota tribe.<br/>Seeker of Vision<br/>The story he tells is one of harsh youth and reckless manhood, shotgun marriage and divorce, history and folklore as rich today as ever — and of his fierce struggle to keep pride alive, though living as a stranger in his own ancestral land.

Lame Deer; Seeker of Visions

Biography, autobiography, and memoir is among the best ways to teach students to appreciate nonfiction reading.

Lame Deer: Seeker of visions, The life of a Sioux Medicine man.

Lame Deer Storyteller, rebel, medicine man, Lame Deer was born almost a century ago on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. A full-blooded Sioux, he was many things in the white man's world — rodeo clown, painter, prisioner. But, above all, he was a holy man of the Lakota tribe. Seeker of Vision The story he tells is one of harsh youth and reckless manhood, shotgun marriage and divorce, history and folklore as rich today as ever — and of his fierce struggle to keep pride alive, though living as a stranger in his own ancestral land.

Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions The Life of a Sioux Medicine Man

Lame Deer<br/>Storyteller, rebel, medicine man, Lame Deer was born almost a century ago on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. A full-blooded Sioux, he was many things in the white man's world — rodeo clown, painter, prisioner. But, above all, he was a holy man of the Lakota tribe.<br/>Seeker of Vision<br/>The story he tells is one of harsh youth and reckless manhood, shotgun marriage and divorce, history and folklore as rich today as ever — and of his fierce struggle to keep pride alive, though living as a stranger in his own ancestral land.

Lame Deer, Seeker Of Visions The Life Of A Sioux Medicine Man

<b>Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding.</b><br><br>Storyteller, rebel, and medicine man, Lame Deer was born almost a century ago on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. Lame Deer’s story is one of a harsh youth and reckless manhood, a shotgun marriage and divorce, a history and folklore as rich today as when first published.

Lame Deer, Sioux Medicine Man

By John Fire Lame Deer And Richard Erdoes.