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There are many stories and many story tellers. Most will tell you what you want to hear but only a few will tell you what the Blue Man forces don't want you to know. --Thunder Owl, Mdewakanton Sioux The Sun Dance and all similar dances and so-called religious ceremonies are considered Indian Offenses under existing regulations, and corrective penalties are provided.--Charles H. Burke, Commissioner, Office of Indian Affairs, Circular No. 1665, April 26, 1921 They will teach us to quarrel about God, as Christians do on the Nez Perce Reservation and other places. We do not want to do that. We may quarrel with men sometimes about things on earth, but we never quarrel about the Great Spirit. We do not want to learn that.--Chief Joseph | |
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To my older sisters, LaVerne Heiter and Chick Cutschall who were both raised in the boarding schools. One must always appreicate being blessed with a pleasant, fulfinning mate, and daughters and sons that make you proud. But to be granted sisters as well...two, who know your very soul down through all your time, your journeys, your missions, your mistakes, your foolish errors, your triumphs, romances, laughter, tears, harrowing escapes and all those other far away ports and places a few fortunate men are cast by a mysterious, magical fate. Indeed, that warrior is truly blessed! But most important are their memories of characters and places, happenings and rich history. Of course, to the brave holy men, the old time sun dancers and the grandmothers. To Buddie Red Bow and Sonny Larive, the first of the young sundancers to bring back the Way. | |
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High aloft, a pair of eagles scanned a prairie dog town. | |
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It is my duty to see that this powerful story goes out to all the world. The Nation, the environment, Mother Earth and your children seeking Nature's health-filled solitude, its freedom and vast mysteries, all will be better for it. Non-Indian writers lamented our past yet avoided the real past. Too often they wrote in a superior, paternalistic style. Some exceptions, however, were the truthful, respectful works of Neihardt, J. Epes Brown and Jack Weatherford. Too often, Native writers, story tellers and artists had to patronize non-Indian publishers in order to be published or, customarily had the white man write their books for them. Other Native writers simply avoided religious and historical oppression, knowing that they stood little chance of being published. Some have touched on the edge but none have donned their warbonnets and plunged headlong into what really happened. This is an Indian book. It has an Indian Publisher, an extremely talented Indian Artist who does not hold back and a fearless Indian Author - who tells a true story of a people who regained their Hoop. There is no dilution! What is fictional of 'mystery' within these pages - is obvious. - Joe Brewer (from book's back cover) | |
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Follows Kyle Charging Shield's experiences from Catholic boarding school as a child to Vietnam pilot to Sundancer. Includes synchronistic experiences of himself as an Eagle and a Meadowlark/Eagle mate, and interpretation of events a presaging future events. Gives full description of Kyle's first experiences in yuwipi, sweat lodge, sundance, and vision fast ceremonies. Tied in to the recounting of a life is a mystical mission to fight the Blue Man, known to the holy men as a potent force disrupting the harmony of the people.
It was very interesting to read the inclusion of real holy men, e.g. Catches (see Pete Catches' memoir & teachings in Sacred Fireplace: Oceti Wakan) and Fools Crow (see Thomas Mails' biography based on interviews of him). And to read the experience of students in a school run by Father Buchwald, who seems to have been modeled after Rev Eugene Buechel, S.J., the compiler of a Lakota dictionary. ( )