Boston, Small, Maynard & Co., 1900. His first book, a small volume of stories subtitled "Indian Boys at School," and pertaining to the education of Indian boys in white-run schools. La Flesche was an Omaha writer and was educated at a Presbyterian mission school in Nebraska. He was the son of Joseph La Flesche, the last head chief of the Omaha tribe, and the half-brother of Susette La Flesche Tibbles. Being of the first generation of young Indians to be educated at white-run schools, he was intimately familiar with the dramatic and traumatic culture clash the experience was for many, which was documented in a number of autobiographies of the period. The difficulty of re-adaptation to reservation life and the sense of alienation from both the Native and the white cultures that ensued became a theme that has run through Native American literature since. Owner name stamped to front flyleaf; mild foxing to endpages and light staining to rear board; still about near fine in pictorial boards. [#036426] $250