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Archie Fire Lame Deer , 1935-

Lakota
Sioux

Archie Fire Lame Deer grew up on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. The son and grandson of medicine men, Lame Deer left the reservation at the age of fourteen. He served in the Korean War and was a stuntman in Hollywood. Lame Deer is a lecturer on the Sioux religion and culture, travelling around the world to teach the Native American spirituality.

 

Books by Archie Fire Lame Deer:

Lame Deer, Archie Fire. Gift of power : the life and teachings of a Lakota medicine man
Santa Fe, N.M. : Bear & Co, 1992.
Genre: Biography
Description: 280 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Dakota Indians -- Biography. Shamans -- South Dakota -- Biography. Dakota Indians -- Religion. Dakota Indians -- Medicine. Erdoes, Richard.
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 0939680874 :
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