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The Dull Knifes of Pine Ridge :

by Starita, Joe
Published by : G. P. Putnam's Sons, (New York :) Physical details: x, 388 p. : ill., maps (some col.) ; 24 cm. ISBN:0399140107 (acid-free paper). Year: 1995
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900 - 999 973.0497500922 Sta (Browse shelf) Available 73185

Coloured maps on endpapers.

Awards:Mountains & Plains Book Award, 1996.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-374) and index.

The old man in the nursing home --
A chief called Dull Knife --
End of the old, beginning of the new --
On the hill above Wounded Knee Creek --
From Pine Ridge to Paris --
When the old man was a boy --
The schoolboy soldier from Yellow Bear --
Mothers and daughters --
Walking the red and white road --
A Lakota in the Que Son Valley --
The Badlands --
A century after Wounded Knee.

Told through the voices of one family--the Dull Knifes of Pine Ridge, South Dakota--the true story of Lakota Sioux life chronicles four generations from Little Bighorn to Desert Storm on a journey of lost and reclaimed cultural identity.

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