Las Animas - Bent County Library District

Begins powerfully with the Sioux triumph over General Custer at Little Big Horn and goes on to center around three powerful men. Charles Eastman is a young, Dartmouth-educated Sioux doctor. Sitting Bull is the proud Lakota chief who refuses to submit to U.S. government policies designed to strip his people of their identity, dignity and sacred land. Senator Henry Dawes is one of the men responsible for the government policy on Indian affairs. While...

Ella Deloria, the bilingual and bicultural Lakota ethnologist and linguist, wrote hundreds of traditional narratives, autobiographies, anecdotes, and reminiscences in both Lakota and English during the 1920s and 1930s. Iron Hawk represents the culmination of Deloria's colloquial style of synthesizing from memory rather than transcribing from tape or written notes. The story traces the development of a culture hero, from his early education by a grandfather,...

The great grandsons of Crazy Horse take a closer look, at Crazy Horse's life both spirtually and as a warrior. In this compelling DVD they reveal for the first time where he acturally performed his visionquest, what his vision was, and his many roles in the fight to save his himeland prior to the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty. Historians from the Crazy Hoses Memorial, Fort Laramie, Fort Phil Kearny, and Fort Caspar augment the family's oral hisotry with...

Luther Standing Bear, a Lakota Sioux born in the 1860s, heard these legends in his youth, when his people were being moved to reservations. The 20 stories celebrate the old nomadic life of the Sioux when buffalo were plentiful and all nature fed the spirit.

"The second novel in Joseph M. Marshall III's acclaimed Lakota Westerns series, The Long Knives Are Crying begins ten years later, in 1875, as Sitting Bull begins gathering thousands of Lakota to face the growing problem of white incursion. What follows is a sweeping tale of the Battle of the Little Bighorn (the Greasy Grass battle) and the remarkable defeat of General George Custer and the Seventh Cavalry, including the days and weeks leading up...