Peter Nabokov is on the faculty of the Department of Anthropology and the American Indian Studies Program, University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the author of Native American Architecture (1988) and editor of Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian and White Relations from Prophecy to the Present, 1492–1992 (1991).
"Two Leggings . . . was one of the last Crow Warriors. From 1919 to
1923 he told his story of Crow life and wars to William Wildschut,
an ethnologist with the Museum of the American Indian . . . . This
is the poignant story of the end of traditional Crow life and
attitudes, which Two Leggings saw ending with the last warfare
rather than the death of the buffalo."—Pacific Historian
"This is the story of Two Leggings’ desire for fame, his rise as a
warrior, and his efforts to achieve a spiritual vision. He takes us
along on buffalo hunts, war parties against the Piegans, and horse
stealing raids against the Piegans and Sioux. His obsession to
become a chief and famous warrior drove him to repeated forays
against enemy tribes for scalps and horses. He relates the
religious relationship between vision fasts, medicine bundles, and
a war raid’s outcome, sun dances in which performers pierced their
breast muscles with wooden skewers, and wife stealing between rival
warrior societies. . . . It is a remarkable story."—Chicago
Tribune
"This is a rare piece of Americana—a first-person account of the
psychological, religious, and social life of a nineteenth century
Indian. The dramatic recital is a real contribution to our native
biography, history, and ethnology, and an important treatise in a
fascinating but curiously neglected field."—Baltimore Sun
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