The Seventh Generation: Images Of The Lakota Today
Editorial Reviews Book Description On December 29, 1890, over two hundred unarmed Lakota (Sioux) Indians were killed by the United States cavalry at Wounded Knee. The massacre sealed the fate of a whole people. Black Elk, the great medicine man, prophesied that strength would not return to his people until seven generations had passed. The time has come. Swiss-born photographer Katrin Freisager's outsider status allowed her three years of unrestricted insight into the contemporary life, beliefs, and landscape of the Pine Ridge, Cheyenne River, and Standing Rock reservations in South Dakota. Her evocative and atmospheric portraits of the people, the land and the animals, the talismans and sacred spaces, segue from gritty poverty to soaring prairie sky, weaving a beguiling narrative of mysticism, beauty, and the American West with the despairing conditions of dependency and marginalization on the government-issued reservation. Freisager conducts several interviews with her portrait subjects, further illuminating the hopes, thoughts, dreams, and desires of the inheritors of the prophecy. About the Author Katrin Freisager, a freelance photographer born in Switzerland, won a World Press Photo Award in 1995 for her photographs of the Lakota. The recipient of a Swiss grant to continue her work in the United States, she is currently living and working in New York City. David Seals, a Huron-Wendat, was born in Denver, Colorado in 1947, was a member of the American Indian Movement, and is founder of the Bear Butte Council. Seals is the author of The Seven Council Fires of Sweet Medicine: Seven Acts in Five Volumes of Indigenous Mythology (Sky and Sage, 1997), Crazy Horse: The Book and Screenplay (Sky and Sage, 1996), Sweet Medicine (Crown, 1994), and Powwow Highway (Sky and Sage, 1983/Plume, 1990, also a motion picture). He lives in South Dakota's Black Hills.
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