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In the first full biography of Spotted Tail, a prominent leader amongst the Sicangu Lakotas, since the 1960s, Richmond L. Clow uses firsthand accounts from tribal and nontribal sources, government records, and published works to establish Spotted Tail as both a warrior and a statesman. The author's voluminous research into contemporary news accounts, including interviews with Spotted Tail, provides a wealth of information about his views and actions that, until now, have been remarkably underutilised.
About the author
Richmond L. Clow is professor emeritus of Native American Studies at the University of Montana in Missoula. A graduate of the University of South Dakota, he received his doctorate in history from the University of New Mexico. Clow has written extensively on the American Indians of the Northern Great Plains in addition to the history of the Black Hills. A longtime contributor to South Dakota History, he is the editor of The Sioux in South Dakota History: A Twentieth-Century Reader from the South Dakota Historical Society Press. He received the Robinson Award from the South Dakota State Historical Society for lifetime achievement in history.
Summary
"In the first modern biography of the Sicangu Lakota leader Spotted Tail (1823-1881), Richmond L. Clow establishes the man as both a warrior and a statesman, weighing tribal and nontribal first-hand accounts with government records to understand how Spotted Tail shaped the world around him in life and death"--
