Bringer of the Mystery Dog.

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The “story of a young boy, who in his quest for bravery brought the first horse to his people, the Antelope Band, a Plains Indian Tribe, about the year 1700.” An “Indian Life Reader” from the “Sioux Series” published by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the book was used in Federal Native American schools. In those spaces, a dual-language edition, in Sioux and English, was used. This copy is the English-only edition that was “suitable for use in any school.”

There are 11 full-page illustrations by Oscar Howe [Mazuha Hokshina] (1915–1983), a Yanktonai Dakota, born on the Crow Creek Sioux Reservation. Howe graduated from the Santa Fe Indian School (1938) and the University of Oklahoma (1954, M.F.A.). He was a WPA painter, muralist, and an art professor at the University of South Dakota. The school’s center for Native American Art, the Oscar Howe Memorial Association, is named for him.

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