Fools Crow

Mails, Thomas E.

ISBN 10: 0385113323 / ISBN 13: 9780385113328

Published by Doubleday, Garden City, 1979

About this Item

Garden City: Doubleday, 1979. Biography of the famous Sioux Ceremonial Chief. A Fine copy of the First Edition (stated). Near Fine DJ is unclipped, shows a bit of edgewear and wrinkling at the margins. Spine is starting to tone. In a protective plastic cover. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine.

Seller Inventory # 000725

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fools Crow
• Publisher: Doubleday, Garden City
• Publication Date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385113323
• ISBN 13: 9780385113328
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • American Western History

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Synopsis

Frank Fools Crow, a spiritual and civic leader of the Teton Sioux, spent nearly a century helping those of every race. A disciplined, gentle man who upheld the old ways, he was aggrieved by the social ills he saw besetting his own people and forthright in denouncing them. When he died in 1989 at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, he was widely loved and respected.

Fools Crow is based on interviews conducted in the 1970s. The holy man tells Thomas E. Mails about his eventful life, from early reservation days when the Sioux were learning to farm, to later times when alcoholism, the cash economy, and World War II were fast eroding the old customs. He describes his vision quests and his becoming a medicine man. His spiritual life―the Yuwipi and sweatlodge ceremonies, the Sun Dance, and instances of physical healing―is related in memorable detail. And because Fools Crow lived joyfully in this world, he also recounts his travels abroad and with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, his happy marriages, his movie work, and his tribal leadership. He lived long enough to mediate between the U.S. government and Indian activists at Wounded Knee in 1973 and to plead before a congressional subcommittee for the return of the Black Hills to his people.

From the Back Cover

Fools Crow is based on interviews conducted in the 1970s. The holy man tells Thomas E. Mails about his eventful life, from early reservation days when the Sioux were learning to farm, to later times when alcoholism, the cash economy, and World War II were fast eroding the old customs. He describes this vision quests and his becoming a medicine man.