With my own eyes : a Lakota woman tells her people's history / Susan Bordeaux Bettelyoun and Josephine Waggoner ; edited and introduced by Emily Levine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bettelyoun, Susan Bordeaux, 1857-1945.

Contributor:

Waggoner, Josephine, 1872-1943.

Levine, Emily, 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brulé Indians--History.

Brulé Indians.

Bettelyoun, Susan Bordeaux, 1857-1945.

Bettelyoun, Susan Bordeaux.

Brulé Indians--Biography.

History.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xl, 187 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [1998]

Summary:

With My Own Eyes tells the history of the nineteenth-century Lakotas. Susan Bordeaux Bettelyoun (1857-1945), the daughter of a French-American fur trader and a Brule Lakota woman, was raised near Fort Laramie and experienced firsthand the often devastating changes forced on the Lakotas. As Bettelyoun grew older, she became increasingly dissatisfied with the way Lakota history was being written by non-Natives. With My Own Eyes represents Bettelyoun's attempt to correct misconceptions about Lakota history. Her narrative was recorded during the 1930s by another Lakota historian, Josephine Waggoner. The collaboration of the two women produced a detailed, insightful account of the dispossession of their people.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0803212801

OCLC:

37560059