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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 288 pp., frontis, photographs, illustrations. Introduction by William S. Hart. A fine , unmarked, sharp cornered copy in a good+ clipped dust jacket as phtographed. No one is able to understand the Indian race like an Indian. The author of this remarkable book is an hereditary Chief of the Ogalala Tribe of the Sioux Nation. This is a fascinating account of the life of an Indian boy and tribal life. Of special interest are the glimpses of Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and other leaders in the Indian uprisings, and the story of the Custer massacre, the Ghost Dance craze of 1890, and the Battle of Wounded Knee.