Contributions

  • Waggoner, Josephine, 1872-1943. - Contributor
  • Levine, Emily, 1956- - Contributor

Publication

1998 - University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska

Language

English

Word Count

46,750 words, Guess

Page Count

187 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing3210609
  • Goodreads4763169

Classifications

  • DDC973/.04975
  • LCCE99.B8 B473 1998

Description

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.

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Other Editions

  • With my own eyes: a Lakota woman tells her people's historyUniversity of Nebraska Press1998-01-01

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