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Yellowtail, Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief: An Autobiography

by Thomas Yellowtail , Thomas Yellowtail , Fred Voget (Illustrator)

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Medicine man and Sun Dance chief Thomas Yellowtail is a pivotal figure in Crow tribal life. As a youth he lived in the presence of old warriors, hunters, and medicine men who knew the freedom and sacred ways of pre-reservation life. As the principal figure in the Crow-Shoshone Sun Dance religion, Yellowtail has preserved traditional values in the face of the constantly enc ...more

Paperback , 270 pages

Published March 15th 1994 by University of Oklahoma Press (first published December 31st 1991)

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