We Need to Dream All This Again : An Account of Crazy Horse, Custer and the Battle of the Black Hills - Hardcover

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A combination of poetry and prose examines the war against the Indians from the perspectives of both the Indians and the U.S. government

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Here are the chiefsRed Cloud, Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Spotted Tailmeeting to discuss a treaty that would reserve forever the Black Hills for Indian use. Six years after gold is discovered there, we meet the army: Generals Sherman, Sheridan, Crook, Terry; Colonels Custer and Miles. Pomerance, author of the play The Elephant Man, has fashioned a dramatic narrative in both prose and poetry of an infamous chapter in American history. He infuses a few modern touches, putting Custer on the Johnny Carson show and comparing a confrontation between Crazy Horse and Red Cloud to "Dr. J. driving on Bill Russell." Shifting scenes move from Washington to the battlegrounds (Rosebud Creek, Little Bighorn) and back again. At the end, we see workmen blasting out the four presidential granite heads while an aged Indian emerges from a sweat lodgea characteristically telling image in this stunning evocation of Indian-white conflict. First serial to Harper's.
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"Crazy Horse said . . . `I'm glad you are come. We are going to fight the white man again.' " So begins the prelude to this lyrically recounted story of the events surrounding the battle for the Black Hills, one of the more disturbing episodes in American history. Though the Native Americans won the major battles, their victory was short-lived. Perhaps, then, victory needs to be dreamed again, and the Native American spirit, vision, and reverence for the land along with it. Tensed against this simple desire to live is the white man's political/military capitulation to power and greed for the gold in the hills sacred to the Sioux. Pomerance, award-winning author of The Elephant Man , possesses an astute dramatic sense, skillfully wedding terse yet colorful poetry and prose as he projects past into future to powerful effect. Carol J. Lichtenberg, Washington State Univ. Lib., Pullman
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  • PublisherViking Adult
  • Publication date1987
  • ISBN 10 0670815519
  • ISBN 13 9780670815517
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages101
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