In the Beginning, the Sun: The Dakota Legend of Creation buffalo just outside of Proofrock

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In the Beginning, the Sun: The Dakota Legend of Creation buffalo just outside of ProofrockA never before published book by famed Native American author Charles Eastman recounts the stories of the Dakota creation cycle as they were told a century and a half ago. In the 1860s and 1870s, the boy who would become known as Charles Eastman was growing up in a Dakota community in Canada. On long winter evenings, he listened to elder Smoky Day tell the twelve legends of the Dakota creation cycle. They include stories of the marriage of the Sun and