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The real Rosebud : the triumph of a Lakota woman by Marjorie Weinberg is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The real Rosebud : the triumph of a Lakota woman about?
Her great-grandfather was a famed Lakota warrior, her father a buffalo hunter, and Rosebud Yellow Robe hosted a CBS radio show in New York City. From buffalo hunting to the hub of twentieth-century urban life, this book chronicles the momentous changes in the life of a prominent Plains Indian family over three generations. At the center of the story is Rosebud (1907 92), whose personal recollections, family memoirs, letters, and stories form the basis of this book. Rosebud s father, Chauncey Yellow Robe, was the son of a Lakota chief and had a traditional childhood until he was sent to the Carlisle Indian School, where he became an advocate for Indian education and citizenship. He was instrumental in planning the 1927 ceremony that brought his daughter into national prominence an induction of Calvin Coolidge into the Lakota tribe, capped by Rosebud placing a feathered war bonnet on the president s head. Marjorie Weinberg follows the young woman from Rapid City, South Dakota, to New York City, where she became a noted lecturer and teller of Indian tales (and where her broadcasting career brought her name to the attention of Orson Welles, who may indeed have used her name for his fam
Who reads The real Rosebud : the triumph of a Lakota woman?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Marjorie Weinberg
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780803248083
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Biography, Memoir
