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A carregar... Wooden Leg: A Warrior Who Fought Custer (1931)por Wooden Leg, Thomas Bailey Marquis
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HTML: "Wooden Leg was one of the sixteen hundred warriors of the Northern Cheyennes who fought with the Sioux against Custer at the legendary Battle of the Little Bighorn. As an old man in his seventies, he related his story of the battle to Thomas B. Marquis, formerly an agency physician for the Northern Cheyennes, in scores of interviews, illustrating his statements with drawings and maps. "Some aspects of Wooden Leg's account have provoked controversy, but??as Marquis points out??soon after the battle the Sioux were settled in the Dakotas while the Cheyennes were located on the reservation in the heart of the region where had been the conflicts. Thus they have kept their memories fresh or have kept each other prompted into true recollections. This advantageous condition has rendered them the best of first-hand authorities." The author checked and corroborated or corrected all points of importance with other Cheyennes??among them Limpy, Pine, Bobtail Horse, Sun Bear, Black Horse, Two Feathers, Wolf Chief, Little Sun, Blackbird, Big Beaver, Medicine Bull, and the younger Little Wolf??"all of whom were with the hostile Indians when Custer came.""-Pr Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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The book covers almost all of Wooden Leg’s life, from his birth in 1858 to his old age (he died in 1940). Most of the book covers ordinary life among the Cheyenne – hunting, setting up camp, flirtation with the girls, contests with the other young men. There’s quite a bit of casual violence against traditional enemies – the Crow and the Shoshoni; Wooden Leg feels sorry for one of the dead Crow, comments on the bravery of an old man of the Shoshoni, and notes that an Indian should help another Indian in need, even if it’s an enemy. (In his introduction Richard Littlebear says Cheyenne still feel animosity toward some of the traditional enemies, but claims it’s now expressed in a “joking” way). The Rosebud and Custer battle accounts are personal – the battlefields were smoky and confused, and Wooden Leg didn’t see much of the “big picture”. He does comment that many of the soldiers at the Little Bighorn “went crazy” and killed themselves, which he attributes to Indian “medicine”. He was questioned about the Little Bighorn several time in later years; he doesn’t say so directly but implies that whites seemed to want him to confirm their beliefs about the battle rather than say what actually happened.
The narrative feels “authentic”, but I have to consider that may be due to my own prejudices. However the Cheyenne were allies of the Lakota and Wooden Leg’s accounts of Lakota customs generally agree with what I’ve read elsewhere (Lakota Society).
Footnotes (by Marquis); no index, which is a handicap. Drawings of the Little Bighorn battle and the Powder River campaign. Interesting and recommended. ( )