My Grandfather's Altar
Five Generations of Lakota Holy Men
- 220 pages
- English
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About This Book
Richard Moves Camp's My Grandfather's Altar is an oral-literary narrative account of five generations of Lakota religious tradition. Moves Camp is the great-great-grandson of WĆ³ptu?'a ("Chips"), the holy man remembered for providing Crazy Horse with war medicines of power and protection. The Lakota remember the descendants of WĆ³ptu?'a for their roles in preserving Lakota ceremonial traditions during the official prohibition period (1883ā1934), when the U.S. Indian Religious Crimes Code outlawed Indian religious ceremonies with the threat of imprisonment. WĆ³ptu?'a, 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. My Grandfather's Altar offers the rare opportunity to learn firsthand how one family's descendants played a pivotal role in revitalizing Lakota religion in the twentieth century.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Editorās Note
- Prologue
- Introduction
- 1. My Grandfatherās Altar
- 2. WĆ³ptuāa
- 3. Moves Camp and Horn Chips
- 4. Grandpa Sam
- 5. Present Times
- Epilogue
- Appendix
- Glossary
- Notes
- About Richard Moves Camp
- About Simon J. Joseph
- Series List
- Illustrations