Native American Authors

Sam Blowsnake
(Big Winnebago, Crashing Thunder)

Winnebago

Sam Blowsnake (S.B.) was a member of the Winnebago tribe. In his autobiography, translated into English by Dr. Paul Radin and footnoted where necessary, Crashing Thunder describes the life, ways, acculturation, and the peyote cult of his people. He tells about his brother-in-law the shaman, adolescence, initiation into the Medicine Dance, marriage and sexual proximity, entry into the white man’s world, traveling with a circus, alcoholism, desire to count coup, the ensuing murder of a Pottawattomie, trial and
jail, and his release on a technicality.

Books by Sam Blowsnake:

Blowsnake, Sam. The Autobiography of a Winnebago Indian
Mineola, NY : Dover Publications, 1920.
Genre: Autobiography
Language: English
Audience: All Ages
ISBN: 978-0548876855

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