De m?moire indienne Unknown - 1977

Paris, France: Plon/Terre Humaine, 1977. First French Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Text/BRAND NEW & BRIGHT. Silver embossed, black linen boards/Fine. DJ/Good; intact w/nips, chips, closed tears to edges. French translation of "Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions", 1972. 332 pgs w/illustrations. 16 chapters. Biography & memoir. American history through the life Sioux American-Indian holy man, John Fire Lame Deer (1903 - 1976) of the Lakotas. Text based on extensive interviews with friend, European born journalist, editor, illustrator and author Richard Erdoes Erdos (1912 - 2008) who described himself as "equal parts Austrian, Hungarian and German, as well as equal parts Catholic, Protestant and Jew". Colaboration to two men of divergent heritage. Lame Deer was a Mineconju-Lakota Sioux born on the Rosebud Indian Reservation. At 14 he relugated to a Bureau fo Indian Affairs' boarding school after which he joined a rodeo circuit. drank, gambled,… Leer más