"Before our white brothers arrived to make us civilized men…"

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70. I think it's ironic that you say so, considering that Lame Deer spent most of his life living

'white' until the 60s, at which time he turned into an Indian shaman type and met up with an Austrian writer at MLK's March on Washington and collaborated with him to write some books.

An assignment for Life in 1967 took Erdoes to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation for the first time, and marked the beginning of the work for which he would be best known. Erdoes was fascinated by Native American culture, outraged at the conditions on the reservation and deeply moved by the struggle for civil rights that was raging at the time. He wrote histories, collections of Native American stories and myths, and developed profound editor/collaborator creative partnerships with such voices of the Native American Renaissance as Leonard and Mary Crow Dog and John Fire Lame Deer.[6] The Erdoes' New York City apartment was a well known hub of the American Indian Movement (AIM) in the early 1970s and he became involved in the legal defense of several AIM members. In 1975 the family moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico where Erdoes continued to write and remained active in the movement for Native American civil rights

"Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions" came out 4 years after Carlos Castenada's first book.

There is no way to separate the authentic from the romantized at such a time, in such a climate.

Great sioux reservation was created in 1868; rosebud was a division of that, in 1889. Lame deer never experienced the pre-contact, pre-reservation life he talked about.