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My Grandfather's Altar: Five Generations of Lakota Holy Men (American Indian Lives)
1496236912 pdf Richard Moves Camps My Grandfathers Altar is an oral-literary narrative account of five generations of Lakota religious tradition. Moves Camp is the great-great-grandson of Wptua (Chips), the holy man remembered for providing Crazy Horse with war medicines of power and protection. The Lakota remember the descendants of Wptua for their roles in preserving Lakota ceremonial traditions during the official prohibition period (18831934), when the U.S. Indian Religious Crimes Code outlawed Indian religious ceremonies with the threat of imprisonment. Wptua, his two sons, James Moves Camp and Charles Horn Chips, his grandson Sam Moves Camp, and his great-great-grandson Richard Moves Camp all became well-respected Lakota spiritual leaders. Read more