We are a spiritual people, and a spiritual people are never beaten.” Crazy Horse once said that ‘a people without a history are like blades of grass in the wind.’ We are Lakota. We would like to see our people throw off the yoke of those educated in other cultures who claim to have the knowledge to define our people and our people’s history. Our Nation has no future if it does not know its past. On the last page of this riveting book, Matson writes in the words of the Clown/Crazy Horse family: “We are happy that we finally have gotten our oral history into print. In their own words we hear the history of the Lakota peoples as passed down through the generations as a part of their oral history method of archiving and retaining a detailed memory of the past. There have been many books (such as Mari Sandoz’s 1942 biography Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas) and many accounts of the life and adventures of Crazy Horse, but not until now has there been a book about the Lakota warrior and spiritual leader written by members of his own family.
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