Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

Richard Erdoes
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 155 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

Richard Erdoes
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 155 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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Chapters 1-5: Alone on the Hilltip; That Gun in the New York Museum Belongs to Me; The Green Frog Skin; Getting Drunk, Going to Jail; Sitting on Top of Teddy Roosevelt's Head

• A young Indian boy of the age of sixteen spends four days and nights in a vision pit. The vision pit is a passage into manhood and a Sioux tradition for aspiring medicine men. The young boy's given name is John Fire but this saga begins the life of Lame Deer.

• The boy waits in the pit to have his vision. With the vision comes the power to heal, and no Sioux could become a medicine man without it.

• The boy's vision consisted of a huge bird and a high-pitched strange voice.

• Lame Deer felt like he had ascended to the sky and he was told by the "fowl people" that he would become a medicine...

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