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Book Review


Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life. By Kingsley M. Bray. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. xviii, 510 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8061-3785-1.)
Kinglsey M. Bray's book provides a fascinating account of Crazy Horse and the social organization of the Lakota, as well as insight into the internal and external political tensions facing the Lakotas. Many books written about Crazy Horse romanticize his spirituality, general elusiveness, military prowess, and humble behavior. Bray, on the other hand, writes elegantly about a society being irrevocably altered by outside political forces and discusses the strategies implemented by Crazy Horse to keep his community from being devoured by despair, defeat, and, ultimately, fear at the prospect. . . .
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