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My Grandfather's Altar: Five Generations of Lakota Holy Men (American Indian Lives) by Richard Moves Camp, Simon J. Joseph (editor) is a biography available to read on EtoBox.

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Richard Moves Camp’s <i>My Grandfather’s Altar</i> is an oral-literary narrative account of five generations of Lakota religious tradition. Moves Camp is the great-great-grandson of Wóptuȟ’a (“Chips”), the holy man remembered for providing Crazy Horse with war medicines of power and protection. The Lakota remember the descendants of Wóptuȟ’a for their roles in preserving Lakota ceremonial traditions during the official prohibition period (1883–1934), when the U.S. Indian Religious Crimes Code ou

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Author

Richard Moves Camp, Simon J. Joseph (editor)

Publisher

University of Nebraska Press

Published

2024

Language

EN

ISBN

9781496236913

Category

biography

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir

Updated

2026-03-25