With My Own Eyes : A Lakota Woman Tells Her People's History

by Bettelyoun, Susan Bordeaux

• ISBN13: 9780803261648
• ISBN10: 0803261640
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-08-01
• Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr

Summary

With My Own Eyestells the history of the nineteenth-century Lakotas. Susan Bordeaux Bettelyoun (1857-1945), the daughter of a French-American fur trader and a Brule Lakota woman, was raised near Fort Laramie and experienced firsthand the often devastating changes forced on the Lakotas. As Bettelyoun grew older, she became increasingly dissatisfied with the way her people's history was being represented by non-Natives.With My Own Eyesrepresents her attempt to correct misconceptions about Lakota history. Bettelyoun's narrative was recorded during the 1930s by another Lakota historian, Josephine Waggoner. This detailed, insightful account of Lakota history was never previously published.

Author Biography

Emily Levine is a longtime landscaper in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. xv
Works Cited	p. xxxvi
Editorial Policy	p. xxxix
Autobiographies of the Authors	p. 1
Susan Bordeaux Bettelyoun	p. 3
Josephine Waggoner	p. 12
Chief Lone Dog	p. 15
with My Own Eyes	p. 15
My Mother, Huŋtkalutawiŋ	p. 20
Bordeaux	p. 24
At Laramie	p. 34
Crow Butte	p. 49
Three Stories of the Battle of the Blue Water	p. 53
Conditions from 1854 Till 1868	p. 68
Two Stories of Horse Creek	p. 82
My Early Days	p. 102
Crazy Horse, Tasuŋka Witco	p. 104
On the Reservation	p. 112
Lakota Pronunciation and Phonological Key	p. 117
Lakota Social Organization	p. 118
Movement of the Brulé and Oglala Agencies	p. 120
Susan Bordeaux Bettelyoun Family Tree	p. 122
Chronology	p. 124
Notes	p. 127
Index	p. 179
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