| Description |
xxiv, 310 pages : map ; 20 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction to a hero story -- Oyate Kin (The people) xxiii-xxiv -- The Lakota calendar xxv -- pt. 1. The early years -- Reflections : the way we came -- pt. 2. The rites of passage -- Reflections : the call to adventure -- pt. 3. The warrior leader -- Reflections : the legacy of leadership -- pt. 4. The road to Camp Robinson -- Reflections : so that the people may live -- Afterword : Honoring song for a Thunder Dreamer -- A story : the lightening bow. |
| Note |
Originally published: New York : Viking, c2004. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page 299) and index. |
| Summary |
A Lakota historian and storyteller offers a portrait of Crazy Horse, the era in which he lived, and his legacy, drawing on his own culture's oral tradition and firsthand research to capture diverse aspects of Crazy Horse's life. |
| Subject |
Crazy Horse, approximately 1842-1877.
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Oglala Indians -- Kings and rulers -- Biography.
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Oglala Indians -- Government relations.
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Oglala Indians -- Wars.
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Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876.
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| ISBN |
0143036211 |
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