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would be interesting to read her daughter's book about
her life with her mother and father. . . . She was born
in 1859 to James Bordeaux, a trader at Fort Laramie, and
Hunjtkalutawin or Red Cormorant Woman, who was
prominent in the Brul Lakota community, Bettelyoun here
recollects 19th-century Sioux life. In the 1930s, she
worked with Waggoner, a younger coresident of the Old
Soldiers' Home in South Dakota and another mixed-race
Sioux, who recorded Bettelyoun's reminiscences on paper.
The manuscript, although used by several scholars, remained
unpublished until Levine, a freelance researcher and University
of Nebraska employee, became interested in it. This book
is quite unusual in being a firsthand account of 19th-century
Sioux life by a woman. It is also a very readable and
fascinating account of a key period in Plains Indian life.
It will fit nicely into two areas of current popular and
academic interest, women's studies and American Indian
history, and is highly recommended for collections in
those areas.
Photo by W. R. Cross, Nebraska
— liverpoolannie
