Western buffs will appreciate this unique collection of American nostalgia that celebrates the saloon and is jam-packed with fascinating facts, anecdotes, photographs, legends, and quotes.
Richard Erdoes Books
July 7, 1912 – July 17, 2008
Richard Erdoes was an artist, photographer, illustrator, and author whose diverse career spanned continents and genres. His early artistic journey in Europe, marked by a defiant stand against Nazism through political cartoons, led him to flee persecution. Arriving in the United States, Erdoes established himself as a celebrated commercial artist, known for his intricately detailed and whimsical illustrations gracing the pages of major magazines. A pivotal assignment documenting Native American life ignited a lifelong passion, leading him to author histories and collections of indigenous stories, becoming a powerful advocate for their culture and civil rights.
The 166 legends recorded here come from the heart and soul of the native people of North America. Some have been told for thousands of years, and they are still being told and retold, reshaped and refitted to meet their audience's changing needs, even created anew out of a contemporary man's or woman's vision
Mary Brave Bird grew up fatherless in a one-room cabin, without running water or electricity, on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Rebelling against the aimless drinking, punishing missionary school, narrow strictures for women, and violence and hopeless of reservation life, she joined the new movement of tribal pride sweeping Native American communities in the sixties and seventies. Mary eventually married Leonard Crow Dog, the American Indian Movement's chief medicine man, who revived the sacred but outlawed Ghost Dance. Originally published in 1990, Lakota Woman was a national best seller and winner of the American Book Award. It is a unique document, unparalleled in American Indian literature, a story of death, of determination against all odds, of the cruelties perpetuated against American Indians, and of the Native American struggle for rights. Working with Richard Erdoes, one of the twentieth century's leading writers on Native American affairs, Brave Bird recounts her difficult upbringing and the path of her fascinating life.
Lame Deer: Memoirs of a Sioux Medicine Man
- 172 pages
- 7 hours of reading
LEST WE FORGET—memorable lives from Western history dramatized in three plays.LAME DEER. Hellraiser, philosopher, sheepherder, sheriff, rodeo clown, lover, medicine man--a Lakota Sioux holy man and sage recounts his life in a series of wry, wise, humorous and always entertaining anecdotes. ADAPTED FROM LAME DEER. SEEKER OF VISIONS. by John (Fire) Lame Deer and Richard ErdoesSITTING BULL. The life of the great Sioux chief, from youth to the Battle of the Little Bighorn to his final conflict with the US government.BUFFALO SOLDIER. Two young recruits join the proud black US Ninth Cavalry and march toward different destinies.
Il dono del potere
- 312 pages
- 11 hours of reading
