My Indian Boyhood is Luther Standing Bear's evocative reconstruction of Lakota childhood, tracing games, kinship, hunting, ceremony, education, and moral formation before the full disruption of reservation life. Written in lucid, dignified prose shaped by oral memory, the book combines autobiography, cultural testimony, and ethnographic observation. Within early twentieth-century Native literature, it answers colonial stereotypes by presenting Lakota society as disciplined, spiritual, intellectually rich, and governed by coherent ethical principles. Standing Bear, born Ota Kte in the late nineteenth century, grew up among the Oglala Lakota and later became one of the first students at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. His life crossed sharply opposed worlds: traditional Plains upbringing, federal assimilationist education, public performance, authorship, and advocacy. This bicultural experience enabled him to write not as an outside observer but as a witness determined to preserve memory and correct misconceptions. Readers interested in Indigenous history, autobiography, childhood studies, or American literature will find My Indian Boyhood indispensable. It is at once intimate and political, nostalgic yet critical, offering a rare Native-authored account of cultural continuity under colonial pressure.