![]() ![]() In 1972, Richard Erdoes published Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions his recorded interviews with Lame Deer are part of the Richard Erdoes Papers at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. The Lakota continue to campaign for the return of the Black Hills. ![]() Supreme Court found that the federal government "decided to abandon the Nation's treaty obligation to preserve the integrity of the Sioux territory" and used military force to seize the Black Hills. The Black Hills are sacred to the Lakota and a number of other Plains tribes. The Black Hills is land that was legally owned by the Lakota until it was illegally seized by the United States government without compensation after the discovery of gold in the area. He often participated in American Indian Movement events, including sit-ins at the Black Hills. Making his home at the Pine Ridge Reservation and traveling around the country, Lame Deer became known both among the Lakota and to the American public at a time when indigenous culture and spirituality were going through a period of rebirth and the psychedelic movement of the 1960s had yet to disintegrate. According to his personal account, he drank, gambled, womanized, and once went on a several-day-long car theft and drinking binge. He was a member of the peyote church and tribal policeman as well. Lame Deer's life as a young man was rough and wild he traveled the rodeo circuit as a rider and later as a rodeo clown. His father moved north to Standing Rock Indian Reservation soon after and left Lame Deer with land and livestock, which Lame Deer quickly sold. Lame Deer's mother died of tuberculosis in 1920. ![]() These schools were designed to assimilate Native Americans into the dominant culture after their forced settlement on reservations. Bureau of Indian Affairs for Indian youth. He was then sent to a boarding school, one of many run by the U.S. He lived with his grandparents until he was 6 or 7, after which he was placed in a day school near the family until age fourteen. His father was Silas Fire Let-Them-Have-Enough. John Fire Lame Deer was a Mineconju-Lakota Sioux born on the Rosebud Indian Reservation. John Fire Lame Deer (in Lakota Tȟáȟča Hušté Ma – December 14, 1976, also known as Lame Deer, John Fire and John (Fire) Lame Deer) was a Lakota holy man, member of the Heyoka society, grandson of the Miniconjou head man Lame Deer, and father of Archie Fire Lame Deer. ![]()
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