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Helene E. Hagan

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Description:PRESS RELEASE : NEW BOOK October 1, 2017RUSSELL C. MEANS: The European Ancestry of a Militant Indian (1939-2012) by Helene E. Hagan This book examines the origin of many Plains Indian families, which began with the union of French trappers and traders with young Indian women in the early days of contact between Europeans and American Indians of the Dakota Territory and the Sioux Indian Territory of Nebraska. Twenty-one photographs illustrate the text. The famous Indian activist, Russell C. Means, who made a name for himself through the activities of the American Indian Movement, the 1973 occupation of the Village of Wounded Knee, an unsuccessful political career, and a more successful Hollywood movie career, though he proclaimed he was “an Oglala Lakota Patriot,” was actually a very European descendant of mostly French-Indian intermarriages on both paternal and maternal sides of his family. Indeed, he was far more French than Indian, as documented in the carefully researched genealogy presented by anthropologist Hélène E. Hagan. The genealogy she composed also addresses the fictitious claims fantasized by Russell C. Means about his father’s and mother’s family surnames in the autobiographical account he wrote with the help of independent author Marvin J. Wolf, Where White Men Fear to Tread (St Martin’s Press, 1996), as well as in the unfortunate use of fictitious material attributed to Chief Seattle for the publication of a small book purportedly on ancestral Indian spirituality, If You’ve Forgotten the Names of the Clouds, You Lost Your Way published under his name shortly before he succumbed to a fatal cancer of throat and mouth in 2012. In addition, the author evokes her fieldwork among the Oglala Lakota people of Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the 1980s, the research she conducted with traditional Oglala Lakota elders as a volunteer with the archives of the Oglala Lakota College in her reservation-wide photo project covering years 1890 to World War II of the history of Pine Ridge families, her involvement with the Yellow Thunder Camp in the Black Hills of South Dakota, and her friendships with numerous American Indians throughout more than thirty years, including the French Indian AIM militant Russell C. Means, his two brothers Ted (Theodore Lyle) and Bill (William A.) Means, their wives, Lorelei De Cora Means and Dolly Means, and some of their children. Her life was profoundly impacted by their friendship.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Russell C. Means: The European Ancestry of a Militant Indian (1939-2012). To get started finding Russell C. Means: The European Ancestry of a Militant Indian (1939-2012), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: PRESS RELEASE : NEW BOOK October 1, 2017RUSSELL C. MEANS: The European Ancestry of a Militant Indian (1939-2012) by Helene E. Hagan This book examines the origin of many Plains Indian families, which began with the union of French trappers and traders with young Indian women in the early days of contact between Europeans and American Indians of the Dakota Territory and the Sioux Indian Territory of Nebraska. Twenty-one photographs illustrate the text. The famous Indian activist, Russell C. Means, who made a name for himself through the activities of the American Indian Movement, the 1973 occupation of the Village of Wounded Knee, an unsuccessful political career, and a more successful Hollywood movie career, though he proclaimed he was “an Oglala Lakota Patriot,” was actually a very European descendant of mostly French-Indian intermarriages on both paternal and maternal sides of his family. Indeed, he was far more French than Indian, as documented in the carefully researched genealogy presented by anthropologist Hélène E. Hagan. The genealogy she composed also addresses the fictitious claims fantasized by Russell C. Means about his father’s and mother’s family surnames in the autobiographical account he wrote with the help of independent author Marvin J. Wolf, Where White Men Fear to Tread (St Martin’s Press, 1996), as well as in the unfortunate use of fictitious material attributed to Chief Seattle for the publication of a small book purportedly on ancestral Indian spirituality, If You’ve Forgotten the Names of the Clouds, You Lost Your Way published under his name shortly before he succumbed to a fatal cancer of throat and mouth in 2012. In addition, the author evokes her fieldwork among the Oglala Lakota people of Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the 1980s, the research she conducted with traditional Oglala Lakota elders as a volunteer with the archives of the Oglala Lakota College in her reservation-wide photo project covering years 1890 to World War II of the history of Pine Ridge families, her involvement with the Yellow Thunder Camp in the Black Hills of South Dakota, and her friendships with numerous American Indians throughout more than thirty years, including the French Indian AIM militant Russell C. Means, his two brothers Ted (Theodore Lyle) and Bill (William A.) Means, their wives, Lorelei De Cora Means and Dolly Means, and some of their children. Her life was profoundly impacted by their friendship.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Russell C. Means: The European Ancestry of a Militant Indian (1939-2012). To get started finding Russell C. Means: The European Ancestry of a Militant Indian (1939-2012), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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