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As a result, Red Shirt’s book can be used for further literary and linguistic studies, anthropological linguistics, and in translation studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview by Anita \u0026amp; Brittany:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe general focus in Lakota oral literary research has been relatively in the study of content rather than the process in oral traditions.  In Delphine Red Shirt’s new book, \u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eGeorge Sword’s Warrior Narratives: Compositional Process in Lakota Oral Tradition\u003c\/span\u003e, shows how its composition and structure are reflected in the work of George Sword who composed 245 pages of text in the Lakota language using the English alphabet.  Red Shirt finds that what essentially emerges from Sword’s narratives are many formulaic patterns inherent in the Lakota language that are fundamentally used to tell narratives as well as recurring themes, and story patterns.  Moreover, Red Shirt’s prime conclusion is that Sword’s narratives originate from a distinct Lakota oral tradition.  In addition, this book analyzes historic documents and original texts in Lakota leading into Red Shirt’s groundbreaking discernment of the process of composition of Native literature.  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Whether teaching a lesson on respect imparted by the mythical Deer Woman or the humility embodied by the legendary Lakota leader Crazy Horse, THE LAKOTA WAY is a compelling and profound work that offers a fresh outlook on spirituality and ethical living.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview by Brittany:\u003cbr\u003eThe\u003cem\u003e Lakota Way\u003c\/em\u003e blended the retelling of traditional virtue stories of the Lakota people in such a way that allowed the reader to relate in some capacity to their everyday lives. In addition, the book also made the reader reflect on their own life and the choices they make. It either solidified their own values and beliefs or it shed some new light on a new perspective that they never really thought about before.   As a result, \u003cem\u003eThe Lakota Way\u003c\/em\u003e allowed the reader to appreciate the small things, the everyday deeds that could pose to be the foundations for a meaningful life. 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Oldmeadow judiciously explains why both \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlack Elk Speaks\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Sacred Pipe: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e are to be ranked amongst the most profound spiritual documents of the twentieth century.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e Black Elk, Lakota Visionary\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e will command the attention of every reader who is interested in the American Indians, providing fascinating insights into their ancestral traditions prior to the reservation era, the subsequent destruction and revival of their traditional ways, and the vital lessons which the contemporary world might draw from their spiritual legacy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview by Brittany:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBlack Elk has to be one of the of most renowned Lakota in our history, right up there with Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and Red Cloud to name a few. 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Then lastly, that the Lakota visionary and his tradition offer the contemporary world profound lessons of the most urgent importance. In addition, Oldmeadow’s book gives way to other scholars as well as historians whose various insights and criticisms allow for a well thought out re-assessment of the interpretations of Black Elk’s life and teachings. What’s great is that their findings are based on recent and relevant sources and in-depth research gathered from not only the fore-mentioned authors’ works like “Black Elk Speaks” or “The Sacred Pipe” but from the further study of the various aspects of Lakota traditions, culture, and religion. 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His many lives would involve him working as a miner, hunter, trapper, bootlegger, woodcutter, and army scout. When his Flathead Indian wife and child were killed by Crow Indians while he was away hunting and trapping, he swore to avenge their deaths and began his next life as a man after revenge . He killed hundreds and earned his nickname because he was said to cut out and eat his victims’ livers. Twenty-five years after his wife’s death, his life would take another turn when he joined the Union Army in Missouri. And that was just the start of his second act.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e***********\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eTo say John “Liver-Eating” Johnson had a rough and tumble life as well-known mountain man is an understatement. He even had a movie about him starring Robert Redford. During his life he also had many professions which included working as miner, wood cutter, bootlegger, trapper, hunter, army scout, and a U.S. Navy man. However, it was his desertion from the Navy that would lead him to the west where he would become known as an infamous mountain man who ate the livers of his enemies! So, the legend goes how Johnson got his notorious monikers such as: “Dapiek Absaroka” by the Indians, “Crow Killer” and “Liver-Eating Johnson” (or “Liver-Eater” for short) by the whites was that Johnson had a penchant for killing Crow Indians where he cut and at their livers. The legend was actually rumored based on the fact that in an act of revenge on a band of Crow Indians who had killed his young Flathead (Salish) wife and unborn child in 1847, he tracked the would-be assassins down, killed, them, and ate their livers!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn addition, there were several people that knew and saw Johnson and contributed to the lore of the legendary liver eater. On one hand, some of the contributions were in fact justified, on the other hand some weren’t. For instance, one witness (George Powell) said how Johnson got his nickname was that when during a skirmish near the Musselshell river with some Sioux Indians – a brave was charging for Johnson with a big war club and before the brave could deal the killing blow, Johnson drops his rifle and quick as a flash grabs for his revolver and shoots the brave right in the heart\/chest. Then Johnson grabs his knife that was described almost like a meat cleaver, cuts the brave open exposing his liver and ripping it firmly from his body. Johnson holds the bleeding liver up above his head and turns around to the rest of his fighting party and asks them “How would you like to have some fresh liver for supper?” Then, Johnson proceeds to walk away and throw the liver nonchalantly in the nearby bushes…George Powell doesn’t actually see Johnson eat it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnother witness (John X. Beidler) stated that there was a time where a Ree (Arikara) Indian came into Fort Buford one afternoon and hunted up Johnson, who was a government scout and a mail carrier at the time between the upriver forts. The Ree told Johnson that friend and long-time partner Bill Jones was killed by a renegade outcast Mandan Indian while returning from Fort Stevenson to Buford with the mail. Jones had been ambushed by a Mandan named Black Feather, and Jones was then found dead and scalped beside his horse. Johnson actually knew of Black Feather and promised retribution for his dead friend. Long story short – Johnson tracked down Black Feather after three days. First, he shot and killed Black Feather’s horse then proceeded to fight, and then Johnson got the upper-hand where he scalped and slowly killed Black Feather while ripping out his liver and taking a bite out of it. While Johnson was cutting open Black Feather he said, “Now you know why they call me Liver-Eating Johnson and I am proud of the name.”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJust like with all legendary people of the west like Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, Buffalo Bill, Doc Holiday and a slew of others, Johnson’s lore definitely had some creative embellishment, stories that rang with real truths. 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First published in 1942, it was written and illustrated by tribal members who interviewed the Old Ones, the tribal elders, in their native language. Many of the stories predate Lewis and Clark and were passed down through a dynamic oral tradition. Using clear and precise writing, “Land of Nakoda” accurately describes tribal legends, daily life, lodging, food, courtship and marriage, children’s games, buffalo hunting, tools and weapons, religious ceremonies and secret societies, medicine men and spirits, and the coming of the white men. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOriginally published in 1942, this revised edition of “Land of Nakoda” provides a detailed depiction of Nakoda life. It includes stories and accounts from interviewed elders on history, legends, crafts, and ceremonies – some of which predate the encroachment and expansion of colonization. The writings within this book also have stories that are very similar in origin to that of the Lakota and Dakota peoples because they are all related (Mitakuye Oyasin). Yet, of course, they also have their difference that are all their own. In addition, this book also features 84 original illustrations, a list of Assiniboine bands, and biographies on the author, illustrator, and the Elders who told their stories.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAs a result, this particular book is a great resource for people interested in the Nakoda culture since it’s filled with a plethora of history and knowledge. 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Pekka Hämäläinen explores the Lakota roots as marginal hunter‑gatherers and reveals how they reinvented themselves twice: first as a river people who dominated the Missouri Valley, America’s great commercial artery, and then—in what was America’s first sweeping westward expansion—as a horse people who ruled supreme on the vast high plains.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Lakota are imprinted in American historical memory. Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull are iconic figures in the American imagination, but in this groundbreaking book they emerge as something different: the architects of Lakota America, an expansive and enduring Indigenous regime that commanded human fates in the North American interior for generations. Hämäläinen’s deeply researched and engagingly written history places the Lakota at the center of American history, and the results are revelatory.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis book is a history of the Lakota people, drawn from sources that seek to tell the story from a Lakota perspective. The ambition of this book is to understand how we saw the world and helped shape American history.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Sioux are often thought of as people of the plains. However, during the 17TH century, the Sioux hunted and moved through multiple habitats, from the woodlands, grasslands, and marshlands in a careful annual cycle. So bountiful was their domain, the Sioux could feed a growing population through wild foods and game alone. In 1660, a delegation of Mdewakanton Sioux walked for several days having been summoned five months earlier to Ottawa Lake for a great gathering. There, the Sioux ambassadors met the Frenchmen Radisson and his brother-in-law who were instrumental in opening the Great Lakes Fur Trade. The Sioux seized on the opportunity of French protection if the French provided trade, guns, and iron. However, by the late 1660’s, the Sioux were once again at war with their neighbors who regarded them with extreme fear. In 1672, the Lakes tribes mobilized against the Sioux intending to build a fort in Sioux Country, and waged war against them all winter, with a body of over a thousand men all having guns and powder. This group of warriors managed to surprise some small villages but the Sioux were soon able to gather their defenses and killed the invaders in great numbers. Demoralized, the coalition collapsed. Seriously isolated just a few years before, the Ocheti Sakowin country emerged in the 1680s as a central place where commerce and diplomacy entwined. The Ocheti Sakowin now had allies, iron, and guns.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDistance shielded the Lakota, the westernmost Sioux of the Ocheti Sakowin, against the repeated border conflicts. They were a shadowy people whom the French only caught glimpses of. Within five years of the agreement with the Sioux, the French abandoned trade with the Ocheti Sakowin. The Ocheti Sakowin were forced away from the center of trade, instead of retaliating they turned inward and westward. And this was the beginning of the LAKOTA’s long expansion into the West. In 1708 the Sicangus (Lakota) bought horses from the Omaha. The Lakota were in awe of the horse with its power and eagerness to obey. The horse they called Sunka Wakan. Early in the 18TH century, the Lakota were feverishly scrambling to get both guns and horses where they were working to turn themselves into a true horse and gun power. Until they could, they would be exposed.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn 1749 a new French governor appointed Paul Marin, one of France’s most experienced frontiersman as an ambassador to the Ocheti Sakowin he was to transform the Sioux from a barrier into a bridge for French expansion into the west. Now trade would go where needed to all Sioux villages between the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers. Thus, the Sioux desire for guns, iron and protection met with France’s desire for profits and power. The French trade helped the Sioux to overcome their rivals and to continue their expansion into the west. Sioux warfare increased, asserting the Lakota as the dominate power among the Ocheti Sakowin.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIktomi, the son of Inyan, the Rock, was once Ksa or wisdom. Iktomi is the inventor of language, stories, names, and games. However, he was cunning and a trouble maker. He ultimately lost his title and became known as Iktomi, who was a shapeshifting spider-trickster hero. As a result, it is Iktomi who shows what the characteristics of the Lakota People are. It’s their ability and willingness to change. They’re shapeshifters with a capacity to adapt to changing conditions and yet stay Lakota. The horse and the gun added to that shapeshifting, the Lakota became the first Native Nation to fight on horseback with firepower.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePekka Hamalainen is the Rhodes Professor of American History and Fellow of St. Catherine’s College at Oxford University.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eI found this book “Lakota America” fascinating. It answered some questions for me as a Lakota. 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Their accounts of these central spiritual traditions and other aspects of Dakota life and history go back seven generations and help to illuminate the worldview of the Dakota people for the younger generation of Dakotas, also called the Santee Sioux.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“The Good Red Road,” an important symbolic concept in the Holy Dance, means the good way of living or the path of goodness. The Holy Dance (also called the Medicine Dance) is a Dakota ceremony of earlier generations. Although it is no longer practiced, it too was a central part of the tradition and likely the most important ceremonial organization of the Dakotas. While some people believe that the Holy Dance is sacred and that the information regarding its subjects should be allowed to die with the last believers, Mniyo believed that these spiritual ceremonies played a key role in maintaining connections with the spirit world and were important aspects of shaping the identity of the Dakota people. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Red Road and Other Narratives of the Dakota Sioux\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Daniel Beveridge brings together Mniyo and Goodvoice’s narratives and biographies, as well as songs of the Holy Dance and the pictographic notebooks of James Black (Jim Sapa), to make this volume indispensable for scholars and members of the Dakota community.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhen people think of the Dakota or the Oceti Sakowin (the Seven Council Fires) we and they forget the Oceti Sakowin territory extended from modern-day Wisconsin and Minnesota west to beyond the Missouri River and northwest to Ontario and the prairies. The Dakota maintain \u003cspan class=\"text_exposed_show\"\u003ethey had substantial presence in Canada: when the Dakota went north into Canada in the1800’s they were returning to territory they already knew. The Dakota occupied and controlled the area from Lake Superior in the northwest to Lake Winnipeg and the Red River.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text_exposed_show\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWith the voices of Samuel Mniyo and Robert Goodvoice, this book “The Red Road and Other Narratives of the Dakota Sioux”, explains the concepts of the Red Road and Wakan Wacipi or Medicine Dance. For many Indigenous people to follow the Red Road simply means to live in a good way.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAccording to the elders Samuel and Robert, these concepts of Canku Duta (RED ROAD) and Wakan Wacipi (Holy Dance) were closely related. 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Davies describes the ways in which the sport, plied as a tool of social control and cultural integration, was adopted and transformed by Native students for their own purposes, ultimately becoming the “Rez ball” that embodies Native American experience, identity, and community. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eNative Hoops\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e travels the continent, from Alaska to North Carolina, tying the rise of basketball—and Native sports history—to sweeping educational, economic, social, and demographic trends through the course of the twentieth century. Along the way, the book highlights the toils and triumphs of well-known athletes, like Jim Thorpe and the 1904 Fort Shaw girl’s team, even as it brings to light the remarkable accomplishments of those whom history has, until now, left behind.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe first comprehensive history of American Indian basketball, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eNative Hoops\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e tells a story of hope, achievement, and celebration—a story that reveals the redemptive power of sport and the transcendent spirit of Native culture.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“NATIVE HOOPS” is an exciting new book from Wade Davies. It explores the history of “REZ BALL” or better yet a study of the great teams and players from the Industrial Boarding Schools to local home towns heroes. Basketball got its\u003cspan class=\"text_exposed_show\"\u003e start at the YMCA where in turn it was introduced to schools such as Carlisle, Haskell, and Chemawa Indian School. Many instructors and superintends were members of the YMCA. At first, basketball started out as mostly a girl’s game. The Fort Shaw girl basketball team went all the way to the 1904 World Fair in St Louis. Be that as it may, there were few sports female students were even permitted to play due to the fact that some school superintendents believed overexcretion from sports could do damage physically and mentally to female students.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text_exposed_show\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBasketball was not forced on the Native students but was actually welcomed and pursued. Some students at the “Indian Schools” became teachers and staff members working with the Indian Office. Therefore, the general organization and management of team sports fell to them. Basketball grew so much that the superintendents called on students, Native employees, and volunteers, to help feed, equip, and transport the teams. Basketball became the Indian School game that was loved by all. But most Indian School superintendents, athletic directors, as well as coaches were men who took more interest in sports that were more male orientated, thus it became a “men’s” sport. However, the students themselves eagerly organized their own pick-up games and intermural teams. It did not matter if they were short, tall, fast, slow, male, or female - if they wanted to play, they found a way.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn “NATIVE HOOPS” you will find stories about the big named Indian schools from west coast to east coast and from the north to the south. You will have a treasure trove of information in “NATIVE HOOPS”. Not only will you gain insight about basketball but you will also learn what was happening in the country at differing time periods. Wade Davies thoroughly researched and gave us an exciting book to read not only about accomplishments over decades but also what basketball meant to Native Communities all over the United States.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview by Anita Comeau\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Prairie Edge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42124383420501,"sku":"b03,DAVIES-Native-Hoops","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/9756\/2453\/files\/NATIVE_HOOPS__71803.1584488815.1280.1280.jpg?v=1770206944"},{"product_id":"all-products-from-wounded-knee-to-the-gallows-the-life-and-trials-of-lakota-chief-two-sticks-book","title":"From Wounded Knee to the Gallows: The Life and Trials of Lakota Chief Two Sticks - Book","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn December 28, 1894, the day before the fourth anniversary of the massacre at Wounded Knee, Lakota chief Two Sticks was hanged in Deadwood, South Dakota. The headline in the\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e Black Hills Daily Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e the next day read “A GOOD INDIAN”—a spiteful turn on the infamous saying “The only good Indian is a dead Indian.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn the gallows, Two Sticks, known among his people as Can Nopa Uhah, declared, “My heart knows I am not guilty and I am happy.” Indeed, years later, convincing evidence emerged supporting his claim. The story of Two Sticks, as recounted in compelling detail in this book, is at once the righting of a historical wrong and a record of the injustices visited upon the Lakota in the wake of Wounded Knee. The Indian unrest of 1890 did not end with the massacre, as the government willfully neglected, mismanaged, and exploited the Oglala in a relentless, if unofficial, policy of racial genocide that continues to haunt the Black Hills today. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrom Wounded Knee to the Gallows\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Philip S. Hall and Mary Solon Lewis mine government records, newspaper accounts, and unpublished manuscripts to give a clear and candid account of the Oglala’s struggles, as reflected and perhaps epitomized in Two Sticks’s life and the miscarriage of justice that ended with his death.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBracketed by the run-up to, and craven political motivation behind, Wounded Knee and the later revelations establishing Two Sticks’s innocence, this is a history of a people threatened with extinction and of one man felled in a battle for survival hopelessly weighted in the white man’s favor. With eyewitness immediacy, this rigorously researched and deeply informed account at long last makes plain the painful truth behind a dark period in U.S. history.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis book From Wounded Knee to the Gallows got my attention in the first few pages. Being of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, when I think of Wounded Knee, I start with Sitting Bull and the manipulations of agent Mclaughlin. I just had a passing knowledge of what was happening at the Pine Ridge Reservation during this time. This book FROM WOUNDED KNEE to the GALLOWS put it all in prospective for me. I also learned politics and corruption hasn’t changed in 130 years (and more) when it comes to the Indigenous peoples of North America.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn 1890, the Indian Agent for the Pine Ridge Agency was Danial Royer who was as crooked a man as they come. The only real qualification he needed was to be a Republican. Royer being appointed by US Senator Pettigrew who was a double-dealing, unscrupulous, self-serving politician that covered his crooked trail by using trumped up accusations against any who opposed him. Mr. Royer was appointed as agent to Pine Ridge and took charge of it on October 9, 1890 by November 12, 1890, 300 cords of wood, 150 tons of hay, 600,000 lbs. of corn and oats were gone, along with agency cattle. Royer and his chief clerk were splitting the ill-gotten gains. Not surprisingly, the People of Pine Ridge were justifiably upset. The year 1890 was especially a hard one. It was a drought where nothing grew, and then it was one of the severest winters on record on top of the land grab by the government. Due to Royer’s incompetence and thievery along with the untrue telegrams he was sending to his superiors, a large contingent of the army flooded Pine Ridge and Rosebud agencies further upsetting the People. It was no wonder the People were drawn to the Ghost Dance because it promised the Second Coming of the Messiah - meaning Jesus Christ. This time, he was coming to save the Indians, his now chosen people. To hungry exploited people is would mean everything. Also because of Royer’s lies, the large buildup of the army, the People’s fear and uneasiness caused them to gather together at the Stronghold which then increased the fear of the farmers and ranchers, along with the murder of Sitting Bull where it made it the perfect setup for the Massacre at Wounded Knee.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAmong the Lakota taking refuge at the Stronghold was Headman Two Sticks and his family. When Miles brokered a truce with the people at the Stronghold and they returned to their various villages, Two Sticks and his sons stayed at No Water’s camp where he and others were now called the “Malcontents”. In the years after Wounded Knee conditions on the Pine Ridge agency were critical. The Oglala People of Pine Ridge were starving. The rations that did come through were rotten and spoiled, and they were still being exploited of what resources were left to them. The jobs that were promised on the condition that they send their children away to boarding schools to learn trades – never materialized. Those jobs were given to political appointment by Sen. Pettigrew to white Republicans whether qualified or not. At times the reservation was so overrun by non-natives it was said there were more of them than there were Indians. Tensions were high to the point that anything could happen and it did with the killing of 4 cowboys. Captain Brown now being the Indian agent for Pine Ridge, was as bad if not the worst of any that had been sent to the reservation. As a result of captain Brown’s lying, his incompetence, and the newspapers reporting an “Indian Uprising”, “Butchered by Reds”, the false and inflammatory stories had their effect. If not for Young Man Afraid of His Horse and George Sword the situation could have ended very differently.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePhilip S. Hall and Mary Solon Lewis, put together an outstanding book with “FROM WOUNDED KNEE to the Gallows. I personally gained a lot of new knowledge. To me, it was fascinating. It easily leads into other areas of study of events and people. 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He provides novel insights on well-known aspects of the Sioux story, such as the Oregon Trail, the deaths of \"Crazy Horse\" and \"Sitting Bull\", and the Ghost Dance, and offers an in-depth look at many lesser-known facets of Sioux history and culture. Paying close attention to Sioux perspectives of their history, the book demonstrates how the Sioux creatively responded to the challenges of U.S. expansion and domination, revealing simultaneously how U.S. power increasingly limited the autonomy of their communities as the century came to a close. Ostler's innovative analysis of the Plains Sioux culminates in a compelling reinterpretation of the events that led to the Wounded Knee massacre of December 29, 1890. History Department Head at the University of Oregon, Associate Professor Jeffrey Ostler has held honors such as the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship and has published articles in Western Historical Quarterly, Great Plains Quarterly, and Pacific Historical Review.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“The Plains Sioux and the U.S. Colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee” by Jeffrey Ostler is essentially an overview of the Sioux people as they were increasingly subjected to the dominion of the United States throughout the 1800’s. The author starts with this opening statement: “At one time, histories of colonialism were written mostly from the top down and described a unilateral process by which an imperial power established complete power over subject peoples. In recent decades, however, scholars in various parts of the world have paid much greater attention to the process of colonialism from the vantage point of the colonized people and have revealed many ways where colonized people have resisted, contested, and otherwise adapted to colonial regimes.” To emphasize, this particular book highlights the perspective of the indigenous people and presents U.S. colonialism as a dynamic as well as a contested process, moreover a political process in a broad spectrum of the term.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFor instance, when it came to colonialism with Lewis and Clark, the Sioux were interested in learning what the would-be explorers had to offer. But, they were not about to risk destroying their livelihoods for some meager so-called ‘gifts’. Stories about a supposed ‘chief’ of 17 nations – in other words, the president, and an air gun to boot. The Sioux could not and would not be bought. Besides, they were already busy dealing and trading on three fronts with the French, British, and Spanish at the time. In addition, the later notion of “Manifest Destiny” in conjecture with the westward expansion of the U.S. where the phrase ‘white race’ started to possess a feeling of grandeur and destiny while the notion of ‘red race’ had only a bleak fate, an ultimatum if you will – assimilate or extinction.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnother instance of colonialism is when the book covered the gruesome event of Wounded Knee. It took perspectives from both sides of the event. However, the defense that the U.S. soldiers came up with still fell short under a staggering weight of horrific facts filled with carnage and death. By the late afternoon when the gunfire finally ceased, between 270 and 300 of the 400 people were dead or mortally wounded. Of these, 170 to 200 were women and children, almost all of whom were slaughtered while fleeing or trying hide to from U.S. officers. The process of colonialism was clearly seen on the fields of Wounded Knee. It was a process to not only suppress, but to snuff out the existence of a noble and proud people.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHowever, hope did not die at the massacre of Wounded Knee nor did it mark the end of the Sioux nation. Years of struggle and perseverance have paved the way for the Sioux and other indigenous nations across the U.S. They have fought and are still fighting for the return of their land and sacred sites, preserving their language, and reviving various ceremonies, and cultural activities. But the conformity of colonialism can only change through the continued resurgence of indigenous sovereign communities throughout not just the nation but the world as a whole. This possibility will also depend not just on indigenous peoples, but also with the non-natives to recognize and accept the legitimacy of indigenous aspirations which would allow for the structures of a plagued world view to crumble.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"auto\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview by Brittany Davila\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Prairie Edge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42124385452117,"sku":"b06,OSTLER-Plains-Sioux-and-US-Colonialism","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/9756\/2453\/files\/81W1DyWXdVL._AC_UL600_SR399600___05388.1597185903.1280.1280.jpg?v=1770207049"},{"product_id":"all-products-book-jim-beckwourth","title":"Book: Jim Beckwourth","description":"\u003cp\u003eDismissed as a “gaudy liar” by most historians and often discredited by writers who deprecated his mixed blood, James Pierson Beckwourth was one of the giants of the early West, certainly deserving to rank alongside Kit Carson, Bill Williams, Louis Vasquez, and Jim Bridger.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSometime around 1800 James Beckwourth was born a slave in Frederick County, Virginia, the natural son of Sir Jennings Beckwith and a slave girl. In 1810 Sir Jennings moved with his family to the wilderness of St. Louis, Missouri, where Jim was educated and eventually apprenticed to a blacksmith. His father recorded a Deed of Emancipation in his name on three different occasions, sending young Jim out into the world with his blessings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJim Beckwourth’s apprenticeship as a fur trapper was served with General William Ashley’s grueling 1824 winter expedition to the Rocky Mountains. Except for a short stint as an army scout during the Seminole campaign, Jim spent the remainder of his long, eventful life in the West, dying among the Crow Indians whom he loved. He was fur trapper, trader, scout war chief of the Crow Nation, explorer, hotelkeeper, dispatch carrier, storekeeper, prospector, Indian agent for the Cheyennes―in short, a mountain man \u003cem\u003eextraordinaire\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJim Beckwourth was a man I always wanted to know more about. I knew three things for sure, he was black, a mountain man, and he lived and died with the Apsaalooke (Crow) people. I am not even sure how I even learned that much. Unless it was from laying on my brother’s bed on Saturday afternoons reading his TRUE WEST magazi\u003cspan class=\"text_exposed_show\"\u003enes. I learned a lot from those little magazines about all kinds of people and happenings in the west.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"text_exposed_show\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJim Beckwourth was a tall man with a stately face. Descendent on his father’s side of Earls and Knights of England, Jim’s mother a slave of his father’s. It’s very possible Beckwourth received his wanderlust from his father who also saw to it that Jim was educated before emancipating him. Beckwourth started his career as a Mountain Man in 1824 with men like Jim Bridger, Kit Carson, Jedediah Smith where a man depended on his wits and his courage if he wished to remain alive in the fur trade. Jim Beckwourth was a man of many talents besides exploring. For instance, he was a trader, a storekeeper, an Indian Agent, and a War Chief of the Apsaalooke (Crow) people. Jim Beckwourth was also a man said to be upstanding and honest, a man branded a liar, a man of many wives, as well as a man of many lives. I am fascinated by Beckwourth who was a black man in that time period who was able to do so much where he was able to interact with so many people and to be so involved with major happenings in the west. He was a black man who freely walked wherever he wanted to. Jim Beckwourth who history forgot (on purpose?) 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American Indians' history of military service dates to colonial times, and today, they serve at one of the highest rates of any ethnic group. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhy We Serve\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e explores the range of reasons why, from love of their home to an expression of their warrior traditions. The book brings fascinating history to life with historical photographs, sketches, paintings, and maps. Incredible contributions from important voices in the field offer a complex examination of the history of Native American service. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhy We Serve\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e celebrates the unsung legacy of Native military service and what it means to their community and country.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWHY WE SERVE is a new publication from the National Native American Veterans Memorial at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. and chronicles American Indian service to the United States. It tells the stories of the distinguished but largely unknown tradition of military service on and off the battlefield in all branches of armed forces for more than 250 years. WHY WE SERVE is a history of United States wars told through the eyes of Native American servicemen and women. Whenever possible, the authors have used the veterans’ own words to describe the face of battle. In addition, the book is also in chronologically war order, meaning the book starts in the Colonial and American Revolution eras and continuing through Iraq, Afghanistan, and other war-torn regions. Along with the service of the men and women in uniform, WHY WE SERVE recounts the labors and sacrifices while the warriors are absent, when they don’t return, or come back haunted. As a result, WHY WE SERVE raises awareness of the “long, proud, and distinguished tradition of service in the Armed Forces of the United States” and to honor their legacy.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview by Anita Comeau\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Prairie Edge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42124388335701,"sku":"b03,SMITHSONIAN-Why-We-Serve","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/9756\/2453\/files\/Why_We_Serve__98934.1601489823.1280.1280.jpg?v=1770207268"},{"product_id":"all-products-book-we-do-not-want-the-gates-closed-between-us","title":"Book: WE DO NOT WANT THE GATES CLOSED BETWEEN US","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the 1860s and 1870s, the United States government forced most western Native Americans to settle on reservations. These ever-shrinking pieces of land were meant to relocate, contain, and separate these Native peoples, isolating them from one another and from the white populations coursing through the plains. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWe Do Not Want the Gates Closed Between Us\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e tells the story of how Native Americans resisted this effort by building vast intertribal networks of communication, threaded together by letter writing and off-reservation visiting.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFaced with the consequences of U.S. colonialism—the constraints, population loss, and destitution—Native Americans, far from passively accepting their fate, mobilized to control their own sources of information, spread and reinforce ideas, and collectively discuss and mount resistance against onerous government policies. Justin Gage traces these efforts, drawing on extensive new evidence, including more than one hundred letters written by nineteenth-century Native Americans. His work shows how Lakotas, Cheyennes, Utes, Shoshones, Kiowas, and dozens of other western tribal nations shrewdly used the U.S. government’s repressive education system and mechanisms of American settler colonialism, notably the railroads and the Postal Service, to achieve their own ends. Thus Natives used literacy, a primary tool of assimilation for U.S. policymakers, to decolonize their lives much earlier than historians have noted.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhereas previous histories have assumed that the Ghost Dance itself was responsible for the creation of brand-new networks among western tribes, this book suggests that the intertribal networks formed in the 1870s and 1880s actually facilitated the rapid dissemination of the Ghost Dance in 1889 and 1890. Documenting the evolution and operation of intertribal networking, Gage demonstrates its effectiveness—and recognizes for the first time how, through Native activism, long-distance, intercultural communication persisted in the colonized American West.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Prairie Edge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42124395937877,"sku":"B03,GAGE-we-do-not-want-the-gates-closed-between-us","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/9756\/2453\/files\/we_do_not_wan_tthe_gates_closed__02606.1618262898.1280.1280.jpg?v=1770207822"},{"product_id":"all-products-the-indians-won-novel","title":"The Indians Won (novel)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst published in 1970 and long out of print, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Indians Won\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a stunning work of speculative fiction that imagines that, following the defeat of Custer and Benteen at the Little Bighorn in 1876, the many Indigenous tribes of America formed an alliance to sweep the whites out of the center of the country and form a new nation, bounded on both coasts by the United States. One hundred years later the two nations, having taken very different paths toward stewardship of the land and resources, are on the brink of war again, as the five hundred million \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ewasichu \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eof the United States eye the vast, open center of the continent, just as they had prior to their expulsion in the nineteenth century. The difference is, now they are both nuclear powers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eImaginative, enthralling, rich in historical detail, and written from the perspective of a Native American writer, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Indians Won\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an emotionally charged novel that asks the question: What if the Indians had won?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview by Anita Comeau:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eThis book, \u003cem\u003e“The Indians Won”\u003c\/em\u003e was originally written back in the 1970’s and with some of the terminology used, a person could tell. I found\u003cem\u003e “The Indians Won”\u003c\/em\u003e very interesting because I like an off the wall fiction. The book caught me in the first chapter. Kinda funny kind of sad kind of the same yet also prophetic. The story moves back and forth between centuries. The premise of \u003cem\u003e“The Indians Won”\u003c\/em\u003e is that all Native Nations banded together after some serious negotiations and defeated the United States army and government in the 1800’s. It also claimed the entire Great Plains as the Indian Nation and how would the history of the United States change if the Indian Nations had won their fight against encroachment, corruption, greed, and the use of Tribal Nations against each other. In addition, the book gives a good portrayal of the history of Indian Nation and of the other individual nations in what it would be like after the victory controlling the center of the country while the States have the east and west coasts.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Prairie Edge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42124571082837,"sku":"b04,CRUZSMITH-the-indians-won","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/9756\/2453\/files\/the_indians_won__21962.1712101627.1280.1280.jpg?v=1770213180"},{"product_id":"all-products-a-line-of-blood-and-dirt-creating-the-canada-united-states-border-across-indigenous-lands","title":"A Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada-United States Border Across Indigenous Lands","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe untold history of the multiracial making of the border between Canada and the United States.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOften described as the longest undefended border in the world, the Canada-United States border was born in blood, conflict, and uncertainty. At the end of the American Revolution, Britain and the United States imagined a future for each of their nations that stretched across a continent. They signed treaties with one another dividing lands neither country could map, much less control. A century and a half later, they had largely fulfilled those earlier ambitions. Both countries had built nations that stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific and had created an expansive international border that restricted movement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe vision that seemed so clear in the minds of diplomats and politicians was never so well-defined on the ground. As \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eA Line of Blood and Dirt\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e argues, both countries built their border across Indigenous lands using hunger, violence, and coercion to displace existing communities and to disrupt their ideas of territory and belonging. 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But this framing, argues Martin Case, hides a deeper story. Land cession treaties were essentially the act of supplanting indigenous kinship relationships to the land with a property relationship. And property is the organizing principle upon which U.S. society is based.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eU.S. signers represented the relentless interests that drove treaty making: corporate and individual profit, political ambition, and assimilationist assumptions of cultural superiority. The lives of these men illustrate the assumptions inherent in the property system–and the dynamics by which it spread across the continent. In this book, for the first time, Case provides a comprehensive study of the treaty signers, exposing their business ties and multigenerational interrelationships through birth and marriage. Taking Minnesota as a case study, he describes the groups that shaped U.S. treaty making to further their own interests: interpreters, traders, land speculators, bureaucrats, officeholders, missionaries, and mining, timber, and transportation companies.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOdds are, the deed to the land under your home rests on this system.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Prairie Edge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42124656017493,"sku":"b06,CASE-the-relentless-business-of-treaties","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/9756\/2453\/files\/91JAY2SBs2L__13093.1744310384.1280.1280.jpg?v=1770215786"},{"product_id":"all-products-teton-sioux-music-culture","title":"Teton Sioux Music \u0026 Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrances Densmore's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTeton Sioux Music and Culture \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis one of the many volumes that resulted from her prolific life-long project to record and transcribe the traditional music of American Indian peoples. The book explores the role of music in all aspects of Sioux life, and is a classic of the descriptive genre produced by members of the Smithsonian's Bureau of American Ethnology.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMusic serves as the vehicle for organizing this detailed account of traditional religion, warfare, and social life, enriched by first-person narrations by the Lakota men and women who worked with Densmore from 1911 to 1914 to preserve their songs by means of a wax cylinder recorder, the modern technology of that period. The evident quality of the narratives, translations from Lakota, as well as the complete transcription and translation of all the Lakota lyrics to the songs, resulted from Densmore's close collaboration with Robert P. 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In Sitting Bull: His Life and Legacy, Ernie LaPointe, a great-grandson of the famous Hunkpapa Lakota chief, presents the family tales and memories told to him about his great grandfather.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLaPointe not only recounts the rich oral history of his family - the stories of Sitting Bull's childhood, his reputation as a fierce warrior, his growth into a sage and devoted leader of his people and the betrayal that led to his murder - but also explains what it means to be Lakota in the time of Sitting Bull and now. In many ways the oral history differs from what has become the standard and widely accepted biography of Sitting Bull. LaPointe explains the discrepancies, how they occurred and why he wants to tell his story of Tatanka Iyotake. This book is powerful. It is a story of Native American history, told by a Native American, for all people to better understand a culture, a leader and a man.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #800000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThese books are also autographed by the author!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview by Brittany:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis book has to be one of the most interesting books I’ve read in a long time. The author of this particular book, Ernie LaPointe is a lineal descent and a great-grandson of the legendary Sitting Bull. Despite the fact that this is not a biography that most would deem conventional, it speaks truth and is filled with family history as well as oral stories, research, legal papers, and even official letters to back it up!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLaPointe allows for the readers to understand Sitting Bull how his family remembered him through traditional oral stories and personal accounts. In addition, LaPointe paints a clear picture on what it was like in the life of this historical icon. Sitting Bull isn’t portrayed as this larger than life character with flashy embellishments like most authors try to convey Sitting Bull. Instead, LaPointe sets the record straight – Sitting Bull was a humble man, who took to life as it came to him and accomplished much in his lifetime. For instance, he was an intelligent warrior where he became a sash bearer of the Strong Heart Society at age 17 and was elected its leader by the time he was in his mid 20’s. Sitting Bull also became a holy man like his uncle Four Horns before him, and even became chief of the Tiatunwa Lakota Nation at the age of 36. None of these were simple tasks to achieve. However through LaPointe’s book, it allows for readers to see that through hard work, strong belief in his culture, and the foundation of his people’s traditions made him essentially a force to be reckoned with for the years to come.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAs a result, “Sitting Bull: His Life and Legacy” is a real page turner and is a book where readers can experience Sitting Bull in a whole new perspective – one that we don’t often see when reading other works about him. LaPointe does a great job in bringing life and profound insight to who Sitting Bull was and the legacy he left behind for his future generations like his great-grandson.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNow a little bit more on the author - Ernie LaPointe was born on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota who lives the traditional way of the Lakota and follows the rule of the sacred pipe. Not to mention, Mr. LaPointe even sometimes frequents our good ole Prairie Edge with his lovely wife Sonja whom are both genuinely wonderful people who always have time to share a little knowledge and good conversation, and are people we are honored to know!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Prairie Edge","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42124759826517,"sku":"(NA)b12,LAPOINTE-sitting-bull-his-life-and-legacy(1)","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/9756\/2453\/files\/sittingbullcover-__45418.1759937680.1280.1280.jpg?v=1770217365"}],"url":"https:\/\/prairieedge.com\/collections\/book-reviews.oembed?page=2","provider":"Prairie Edge","version":"1.0","type":"link"}