Hello everyone for this, my first blog post I am talking about the Book Custer's Last Battle or Custer's Last Battle: Red Hawk's account of the Battle of Little Bighorn. the author was Paul Goble with a forward by Joe Medicine Crow.
I feel the forward by Joe Medicine Crow helped get the reader ready for what they are about to read. Whenever I read about Custer's Last Stand I feel like I need to be solemn, but Joe talks about how he enjoys seeing the re-enactment and how his fascination for it which fuels his years of studying the battle. Paul Goble begins by sharing why he wrote this book. He noticed his son saw many accounts from the followers of Custer, who saw him as a hero but there were no accounts from the side of Crazy horse or Chief Sitting Bull. Paul puts the reader in the perspective of a Oglala man named Red Hawk. He reflects his past and the time when "long hair" attacked Little Bighorn. There are two different texts, one is the story that Red Hawk is saying and the other is Paul explaining the situation. The illustrations are reminiscent of the paintings that the survivors made to share the account of Little Bighorn. However the illustrations in the book were much more of a snapshot of a specific time rather than telling one large story on a canvas. The author calls his art an "Egyptian perspective" but the action reminds me more of a English tapestry from the Middle ages. It is an interesting perspective. You can trace how the story went from the book you are reading to the accounts of the survivors and approval from the scholars who studied it. I love that someone was able to record a history that wasn't represented well.
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Annette Lamb
9/5/2018 04:23:24 pm
I love your title “first book, last stand”.
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Joseph Lutholtz
11/19/2018 03:23:03 pm
Some of my favorite books always strive to consider a different perspective from the norm so this book sounds incredibly appealing. All the more so if it has an interesting art style. While I'd initially call it basic, that comment on it being "Egyptian" makes a lot of sense and not what I'd initially consider when looking at a book about a Native American perspective.
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