Choteau Creek: A Sioux Reminiscence. (book reviews)

Since Charles Eastman first wrote about his Sioux boyhood at the beginning of the century, a number of excellent reminiscences by Indian people have been produced. Joseph Iron Eyes Dudley's Choteau Creek joins what should continue to be an important body of literature.

As Dudley notes, Choteau Creek is about quiet people, not political activists, and concerns itself with Dudley's family--notably his grandparents. The setting for Dudley's recollections is the Yankton Sioux Reservation in southeastern South Dakota, along the Missouri River. About 2,000 American Indians (and about ...

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