The Dull Knifes of Pine Ridge: A Lakota Odyssey

Joe Starita tells the triumphant and moving story of a Lakota-Northern Cheyenne family. In 1878, the renowned Chief Dull Knife, who fought alongside Crazy Horse, escaped from forced relocation in Indian Territory and led followers on a desperate six-hundred-mile freedom flight back to their homeland. His son, George Dull Knife survived the Wounded Knee Massacre and later toured in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show. Guy Dull Knife Sr. fought in World War I and took part in the Siege of Wounded Knee in

1973. Guy Dull Knife Jr. fought in Vietnam and is now an accomplished artist. Starita updates the Dull Knife family history in his new afterword for this Bison Books edition.

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Author: Joe Starita
Language: English
Vendor: Commercial
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 2002
ISBN: 9780803292949
Category: Book
Subcategory: Paperback
Added: April 9, 2018

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