| Description |
1 online resource (540 pages) |
| Contents |
Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; 1. The Meeting at Lower Brule; 2. The Sioux from 1700 to 1890; 3. A Clash of Cultures; 4. Crazy Crow; 5. The Stone White Men; 6. Runs for Hill and the Kettle Dance; 7. Longneck and the New Life; 8. All the Important Dances; 9. Stirrup and Fannie; 10. Iron Cloud's Pipe; 11. Leader of the District; 12. The Intercessor; 13. Walking Standing Buffalo and The Running Horses; 14. We Medicine Men; 15. Kate; 16. The Days at Home; 17. The Cliff at Bear Butte; 18. The Ceremonial Chief; 19. The Pipe and Power; 20. Walking a Hard Road; 21. A Noble Legacy |
| Summary |
Frank Fools Crow, a spiritual and civic leader of the Teton Sioux, spent nearly a century helping those of every race. A disciplined, gentle man who upheld the old ways, he was aggrieved by the social ills he saw besetting his own people and forthright in denouncing them. When he died in 1989 at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, he was widely loved and respected. Fools Crow is based on interviews conducted in the 1970s. The holy man tells Thomas E. Mails about his eventful life, from early reservation days when the Sioux were learning to farm, to later times when alcoh |
| Notes |
Appendix and NotesBibliography |
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Print version record |
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Fools Crow, 1890 or 1891-1989.
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| SUBJECT |
Fools Crow, 1890 or 1891-1989 fast |
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Oglala Indians -- Biography
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Lakota Indians
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Lakota Indians
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Oglala Indians
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780803283428 |
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0803283423 |
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