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Crazy Horse Suite
The Black Hills, Dakota Territory, 1870s: a time of blood and magic.
Compelled by a Vision, the warrior Crazy Horse swears to drive the whites from Lakota land.
These poems recount his exploits, his personal turmoil, and the travails of his people.
The imagery is dreamlike, the story irresistible.
In the 1870s large deposits of gold were found in the Black Hills of the U.S. Territory of Dakota. By treaty the land belonged to the indigenous people, the Sioux. But when thousands of prospectors flooded into the Black Hills the U.S. Cavalry was dispatched to protect them. So began the bloody conflict that would lead to the displacement and humiliation of the original inhabitants of this area.
The Crazy Horse Suite uses the voices of three characters besides Crazy Horse: Crazy Horse’s friend, Little Big Man; Crazy Horse’s lover, Black Buffalo Woman; and George Armstrong Custer, who led his cavalry battalion to annihilation at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
Compelled by a Vision, the warrior Crazy Horse swears to drive the whites from Lakota land.
These poems recount his exploits, his personal turmoil, and the travails of his people.
The imagery is dreamlike, the story irresistible.
In the 1870s large deposits of gold were found in the Black Hills of the U.S. Territory of Dakota. By treaty the land belonged to the indigenous people, the Sioux. But when thousands of prospectors flooded into the Black Hills the U.S. Cavalry was dispatched to protect them. So began the bloody conflict that would lead to the displacement and humiliation of the original inhabitants of this area.
The Crazy Horse Suite uses the voices of three characters besides Crazy Horse: Crazy Horse’s friend, Little Big Man; Crazy Horse’s lover, Black Buffalo Woman; and George Armstrong Custer, who led his cavalry battalion to annihilation at the Battle of the Little Big Horn.
94 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 10, 2019
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About the author
Morgan Nyberg
17 books174 followersMorgan Nyberg was born in Ontario, Canada and grew up in farming country in southern British Columbia. After graduating from the University of British Columbia he worked as a laborer for a decade before finally settling into teaching. For most of the last 30 years he has lived abroad, teaching English as a Foreign Language in Ecuador, Portugal and the Sultanate of Oman.
His first book, The Crazy Horse Suite, a verse play, was performed on the stage in New York and was broadcast on CBC Radio. Soon after that a memoir won the CBC Literary Competition. His first venture into book-length fiction, a children's novel, Galahad Schwartz and the Cockroach Army, won Canada's prestigious Governor General's Award. Since then he has added a further children's novel, Bad Day in Gladland; two literary novels for adults, El Dorado Shuffle and Mr. Millennium; and the post-apocalyptic Raincoast Saga, comprising The Fixer, Since Tomorrow, Birds of Passage, Medicine and Frost Oysterson. He currently lives on Vancouver Island, Canada.
His first book, The Crazy Horse Suite, a verse play, was performed on the stage in New York and was broadcast on CBC Radio. Soon after that a memoir won the CBC Literary Competition. His first venture into book-length fiction, a children's novel, Galahad Schwartz and the Cockroach Army, won Canada's prestigious Governor General's Award. Since then he has added a further children's novel, Bad Day in Gladland; two literary novels for adults, El Dorado Shuffle and Mr. Millennium; and the post-apocalyptic Raincoast Saga, comprising The Fixer, Since Tomorrow, Birds of Passage, Medicine and Frost Oysterson. He currently lives on Vancouver Island, Canada.
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