The Chapter called "New Ways. New Words" was particularly enlightening as the auther explains how the Lakota language adapted to American/European culture. I highly recommend this book.
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December 2008
The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn. A Lakota History
by Joseph M. Marshall III (245 pages). This book caught my eye because it was a visit to the Little Bighorn
Battlefield in 1979 that began my hunger for reading history. Beyond just a re-telling of the famous battle
from the point of view of the Lakota, this book goes beyond the recitation of names and dates and gives the
reader real insight into the thinking of the Lakota and Cheyenne at the time of the battle, and how their
culture and language adapted to the world with which they were faced at the end of the 19th Century.
I've not read any other book that reports or mentions how the Lakotas' path moved into the 20th and
21st Centuries. The Chapter called "New Ways. New Words" was particularly enlightening as the auther explains how the Lakota language adapted to American/European culture. I highly recommend this book. |
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