How long does it take to read Hanta Yo?
Ruth Beebe Hill
Hanta Yo by Ruth Beebe Hill takes about 15 hours 17 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 15 hours 17 minutes
A long haul
First published 1979. 834 pages, about 229,350 words.
31 days (about 5 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 25 hours 29 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 15 hours 17 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 9 hours 33 minutes |
The page count is the median across 10 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Absolutely Fascinating. I read this book back in the day when I was living in Texas ~1985(?). It was a friends recommendation. She was right, you can't put this book down. It's the story of three generations of Lakota - Dakota Tribal Chiefs and the life they and their people live on the plains just prior to European man's arrival, and the demise of a way of life. To my understanding Ms. Hill befriended a fellow student while studying in Wyoming (?) who is/was Native American and had his family lineage documented. With his permission she wrote the story using the names, places and time. It is a true American classic about love and loss and the struggle for survival that every generation and culture must face. This should be a mandatory read in High Schools.
Subjects: Dakota Indians, Dakota Indians in fiction, Fiction, Fiction, historical, general, Indians of north america, history
