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Orange, Tommy (22 Jul 2021). "The Untold Stories of Wes Studi". GQ. Condé Nast . Retrieved 2 September 2023. Anyone wondering why any minority protests their treatment at the hands white Christians could learn something from reading this book. bullet wound he suffered himself—also stayed with him. To his ministry in the Catholic faith he brought firsthand experience The timeline at the end is excellent. Really helps put things in perspective as an easy reference point.Although harder for our scientific western culture to fathom, it is also possible to see these visions as visions, experienced by a person who was open to them by either illness or ability. The book as published in 1932 had little readership, but its translation into German inspired Jung and others, and a new English edition in 1961 reached a wider audience that peaked in the 70’s. Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice. You lived first, and you are older than all need, older than all prayer. All things belong to you --- the two-leggeds, the four-leggeds, the wings of the air and all green things that live. You have set the powers of the four quarters to cross each other. The good road and the road of difficulties you have made to cross; and where they cross the place is holy. Day in and day out, forever, you are the life of things. It's a sad tale. There were a few helpful and kind people mentioned, like John Neihardt, but the good discovered is minuscule compared to the near total destruction. During the period 1850 to 1900, a great clash of cultures and civilizations occurred on the high western plains of the United States. One culture was that of the plains Indians, a culture of nomadic, hunter gathers. It was a culture imbued with a mythology that believed the natural world was undergirded by a world in which all creatures including humans and inanimate objects were representations, impowered and interconnected to and by an underlying spiritual world. The other culture, that of white Europeans was a culture that believed that the natural world was separate from the human world, a world meant to be under the dominion and domination of human beings, a world to be extracted from and exploited by humans for the creation of wealth. The denouement of this conflict of cultures was in the end never in doubt but it resulted in one of the more shameful and tragic episodes of American history.

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Les Wasichus nous ont mis dans ces boites carrées (maisons), notre pouvoir s'en est allé et nous allons mourir parce que le pouvoir n'est plus en nous. I could see that the Wasichus did not care for each other the way our people did before the nation’s hoop was broken. They would take everything from each other if they could, and so there were some who had more of everything than they could use, while crowds of people had nothing at all and maybe were starving. They had forgotten that the earth was their mother.Now what I did like about this book was that part of the Sioux history that I have not read before, their life once confined to reservations. While the book did deal with the tribe's history before the end of hostilities and included the incidents of Sand Creek, Fetterman's Ambush, Little Big Horn, and Wounded Knee, this history has been treated with greater depth and detail in other works. This earlier history, however, did set the stage for the tragedy of reservation life and the degradation of the Sioux culture. This part of Indian history can easily provoke discussion and debate and this part of the book is what really saved it for me. I can understand the harsh treatment of Indians in the 19th century when memories of the hostilities were still fresh and the participants still alive but the treatment persisted into the 20th century with no real improvement. The very idea of the need for change doesn't even seem to exist until after Neihardt's book is published and read by a few people in positions to affect change. Another sad part of our history with Native Americans. Arī šajā grāmatā ir faktu materiāls par to, piemēram, viņi karo pat savā starpā, nogalina, rituālos upurē dzīvniekus, necienīgi izturas pret ienaidnieka līķiem - noskalpē, savāc apģērbu... Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side.” ~ George Orwell All of the metaphorical + verbal clichés used relative to the time period this was written in are extremely annoying to read repeatedly & makes this feel even more inauthentic & embellished than I already know it is.

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What a sad, sad book. I can't help but think what a horrible time to have been alive as a Native to witness your entire world collapse in front of your own eyes. Clash of cultures was and is inevitable in human civilization but there are lessons to be learned from the losing side. This book achieves that. Therefore I am sending a voice Great Spirit, my Grandfather, forgetting nothing you have made, the stars of the universe and the grasses of the earth.

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John Neihardt's classic is a problematic read to be sure. On the one hand, Neihardt was a sympathetic interlocutor who elicited a fascinating account from an extraordinary man who lived through several major episodes in late-19th-century history. On the other hand, his poetic pretensions led him to rearrange and dress up that testimony, adorning it with his own mediocre neo-Romantic insight, and altogether distorting the historical and cultural record.