Books

March, 1983

Peter Matthiessen has thoughtfully produced In the Spirit of Crazy Horse (Viking), a sad and detailed look at an unromantic part of the wild West legacy. Crazy Horse was the 19th Century Dakota Sioux who liked to point out that the white man--and the Bureau of Indian Affairs-- had a keen sense of real-estate values. This book is about his modern counterparts in the American Indian Movement of the Seventies, primarily those on the huge Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, and the old at...