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Book Review of Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions

Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions
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Storyteller, rebel, medicine man, Lame Deer was born almost eighty years ago on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. A full-blooded Sioux, he has been many things in the white man's world--rodeo clown, painter, prisoner. But, above all, he is a holy man of the Lakota tribe.
The story he tells is one of harsh youth and reckless manhood, shotgun marriage and divorce, history and folklore as rich today as ever--and of his fierce struggle to keep pride alive, though living as a stranger in his own ancestral land.