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:

Waggoner, Josephine, 1872-1943, author.

Levine, Emily, 1956- author.

Contributor:

Levine, Emily, editor, writer of introduction.

Schimmel, Caroline F., associated name, former owner.

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bettelyoun, Susan Bordeaux, 1857-1945.

Bettelyoun, Susan Bordeaux.

Brulé Indians--History.

Brulé Indians.

Brulé Indians--Biography.

Genre:

autobiographies (literary works)

Autobiographies

Biographies

History

Autobiographies.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xl, 187 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First Bison book print.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1999.

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 Brulé 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 her peoples history was being represented by non-Natives. With My Own Eyes represents her attempt to correct misconceptions about Lakota history. Bettelyouns narrative was recorded during the 1930s by another Lakota historian, Josephine Waggoner. This detailed, insightful account of Lakota history was never previously published.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Schimmel 2027 12: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2024 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel 2027 13: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2024 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

ISBN:

0803261640

9780803261648

OCLC:

43333090