The death of the Great Spirit;, an elegy for the American Indian
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The death of the Great Spirit;, an elegy for the American Indian
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references
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non fiction
Main title
The death of the Great Spirit;
Nature of contents
bibliography
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141925
Sub title
an elegy for the American Indian
Summary
"The destruction of the American Indian, by his enemies and by his friends. This is the story of a proud, profoundly wise culture which now seems doomed to extinction. It is the story of the American Indian, who first had his lands wrested away, and now is undergoing the final destruction of his identity. There are many actors in this drama, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and its strangling lover's embrace; the last great chiefs and medicine men [shamans], struggling to keep alive their ancient traditions ; the anthropologists and hippies, with their destructive invations ; the new Indian radicals, angry and divided ; and above all, the ordinary Indians, in the reservations and in the cities, marked by the white [whites, whiteman] spiritual death."--Back cover
Table of contents
The Sioux and the Czar -- The Children of Decrepitude and the Youth of the World -- Halfmoom Fire Place -- An Ax of Stone, An Ax of Steel -- The Three Hundred Years' War -- Big Daddy White Eyes -- And Poverty Said ... -- Crazy Horse is Alive in San Francisco -- The Savage Hopis -- The Defeat of the Rodeo -- Welcome to the Proletariat -- A School for Medicine Men -- Dialectical Spiritualism -- Indian Love Call
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