Bibliograph

Bear's Heart, scenes from the life of a Cheyenne artist of one hundred years ago with pictures by himself, text by Burton Supree, with Ann Ross ; afterword by Jamake Highwater

Type

Label

Bear's Heart, scenes from the life of a Cheyenne artist of one hundred years ago with pictures by himself, text by Burton Supree, with Ann Ross ; afterword by Jamake Highwater

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Bear's Heart

Responsibility statement

text by Burton Supree, with Ann Ross ; afterword by Jamake Highwater

Sub title

scenes from the life of a Cheyenne artist of one hundred years ago with pictures by himself

Summary

A biography of the Cheyenne Indian Bear's Heart illustrated with his own drawings done while he and seventy-one other Indians were imprisoned in St. Augustine, Florida in November, 1876. The pictures were drawn with colored pencils and ink in a school drawing book, notated by Lieutenant Richard Henry Pratt, given to General William Tecumsch Sherman as a gift when he visited the prison, and now belong to the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation

Target audience

juvenile

Contributor

Creator