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" Good Friday on the Rez introduces readers to places and people that author, writer, and entrepreneur David Bunnell encounters during his one day, 280-mile road trip from his boyhood Nebraska hometown to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation to visit his longtime friend, Vernell White Thunder, a full-blooded Oglala Lakota, descendant of a long line of prominent chiefs and medicine men. This captivating narrative is part memoir and part history. Bunnell...
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"One of the seven branches of the Lakota, the Oglala were members of the wealthiest and mightiest Native American nations. Led by giants such as Red Cloud and Crazy Horse, these are the people that brought America to the table and signed the Treaty of 1868 and destroyed Custer at the Little Big Horn eight years later. ... Descendants of Wounded Knee is an unvarnished account of life on the Pine Ridge. Told around the 1999 unsolved murder of Wally...
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The great Sioux warrior-statesman Red Cloud was the only American Indian in history to defeat the United States Army in a war, forcing the government to sue for peace on his terms. At the peak of Red Cloud's powers, the Sioux could claim control of one-fifth of the contiguous United States and the loyalty of thousands of fierce fighters. Born in 1821 near the Platte River in modern-day Nebraska, Red Cloud lived an epic life of courage, wisdom, and...
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