Crow Dog: Four Generations of Sioux Medicine Men – An Epic Lakota History from the Ghost Dance to AIM - Couverture souple

Dog, Leonard C.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0060926821 ISBN 13 : 9780060926823

Editeur : Harper Perennial, 1996

Synopsis

"I am Crow Dog. I am the fourth of that name. Crow Dogs have played a big part in the history of our tribe and in the history of all the Indian nations of the Great Plains during the last two hundred years. We are still making history."

Thus opens the extraordinary and epic account of a Native American clan. Here the authors, Leonard Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes (co-author of Lakota Woman) tell a story that spans four generations and sweeps across two centuries of reckless deeds and heroic lives, and of degradation and survival.

The first Crow Dog, Jerome, a contemporary of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, was a witness to the coming of white soldiers and settlers to the open Great Plains. His son, John Crow Dog, traveled with Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show. The third Crow Dog, Henry, helped introduce the peyote cult to the Sioux. And in the sixties and seventies, Crow Dog's principal narrator, Leonard Crow Dog, took up the family's political challenge through his involvement with the American Indian Movement (AIM). As a wichasha wakan, or medicine man, Leonard became AIM's spiritual leader and renewed the banned ghost dance. Staunchly traditional, Leonard offers a rare glimpse of Lakota spiritual practices, describing the sun dance and many other rituals that are still central to Sioux life and culture. 

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Leonard C. Dog was born in 1942 on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, where he still lives.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

From the co-author of Lakota Woman, which has sold more than 150,000 paperback copies, comes a compelling account detailing the unique experiences and spiritual knowledge accumulated by four generations of powerful medicine men.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harper Perennial
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0060926821
• ISBN 13: 9780060926823
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
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