Red Road Across the Great Plains (Book) - 12/17/2019 9:07:20 AM
Your excerpt brought a tear to my eye. It is so sad that history was altered so badly by the European invaders when it came to atrocities committed against the natives who, under the United States Constitution, should have had a right to live freely.
I edited, and then published, after he died, Seven Fires by Brian Goodson, a broad ranging story about how an accidental nuclear war with the Chinese is dealt with by Native Americans who help the president of the United States prevail. From the turmoil comes a young visionary named, Promise. This young man can easily be understood as the second coming of Jesus Christ.
During my high school years, the county I lived in had the highest population of Native Americans in the state. But we never saw any on Main Street. Most lived 30 miles south in a community called, Pittsville and held an annual powwow that I never visited. In college with a church group, we spent our spring break restoring spirit houses of the dead at the Lac du Flambeau reservation. Only to learn that those wooden houses were meant to deteriorate and not restored. The following year, we returned and framed a one-room house for two elderly gentlemen whose house had caved in from heavy winter snow.
Venturing off to California for my master's degree studies in my rusty old car, my grandmother and I experienced the Black Hills where the Crazy Horse Monument was just getting started, the site of the battle where the warriors triumphed at Little Big Horn grateful that there was no monument to Custer, the sacred location of Devils Tower and the museum in Cody with so many wonderful native pictures and artifacts.
The more the true story of how the West was abused is revealed, the better off we all will be as a people.
Ron
