Sitting Bull His Life and Legacy

Name: Sitting Bull His Life and Legacy
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ISBN: 9781423605560

ISBN-10: 142360556X

ISBN-13: 9781423605560

Edition: 2009

Authors: Ernie LaPointe, Lani Van Eck, Ernie La Pointe

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Ernie LaPointe is the great -grandson of the famous Hunkpapa Lakota chief, and hepresents the family tales and memories told to him about his great-grandfather. In many ways theoral history differs from what has become the standard and widely accepted biography of SittingBull. LaPointe explains the discrepancies, how they occurred, and why he wants to tell his story ofTatanka Iyotake. Ernie LaPointe, a great-grandson of Sitting Bull, was born on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation inSouth Dakota. He is a Sundancer and lives the traditional way of the Lakota and follows the rules ofthe sacred pipe. He lives in South Dakota. The only book on Sitting Bull written by a lineal descendant

Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Gibbs Smith, Publisher
Publication date: 9/1/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 160
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

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Acknowledgments


Foreword


Preface


Introduction


Jumping Badger


Earning His Name


The Strong Heart Society


Jumping Bull


Wives and Children


Gazing At the Sun: The First Vision


Encountering the Americans


The Leader of the Lakota


Arrow Creek


Broken Promises


The Stage is Set


The Battle of the Greasy Grass


In the Land of the Grandmother


Military Custody


A Limited Captivity


The Ghost Dance


Betrayal


The Murder


Burying The Dead


Leaving Standing Rock


The Burial Site of Tatanka Iyotake


Living The Legacy



A Letter from E.D. Mossman, Superintendant of the Standing Rock Indian School, to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs in Washington D.C.



Assessment of a Lock of Hair and Leggings Attributed to Sitting Bull, a Hunkpapa Sioux, in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution-Executive Summary


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