In The Footsteps Of Crazy Horse (2015) - Plot & Excerpts
Needless to say, he is my hero. Therefore, I am grateful to Howard Reeves at Abrams Books for this opportunity to write about my hero again, this time for a younger audience. Growing up on the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation in South Dakota, with some time spent on the Pine Ridge Reservation as well, I heard the name Tasunke Witko frequently. Some of what I heard was from descendants of Lakota people who lived in his time. By no means am I an authority on Crazy Horse—I am merely a student of his life and times, and I continue to learn more. However, as a Lakota, I do feel a connection to him because he was a real person, not an imagined hero. One aspect of my life that connects me to Crazy Horse is bows and arrows. My maternal grandfather made primitive-style Lakota bows and arrows. Fortunately, he passed on to me the knowledge and information necessary to make them, but the skills to do so I had to develop on my own. Each time I start the process and finish a bow and a set of arrows, and each time I shoot a primitive-style Lakota bow and arrows that I have crafted with my own hands, I cannot help but think of my hero.
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