THE MEMOIRS OF CHIEF RED FOX

by Chief William Red Fox ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 1, 1971

Chief Red Fox who is an august hundred years old turned over his fourteen school tablets to Cash Asher who has prepared them for publication and contributed a short introduction. Chief Red Fox, schooled on a reservation and later at Carlisle, is better educated than Geronimo and the memoir, while also short, is also a little more developed than Geronimo's (cf. p. 536). He discusses randomly the Indian belief in the Great Spirit and his deep love of family and home; their past history (he was a nephew of Crazy Horse) which is rewritten here in Red blood -- Custer's Last Stand becomes thai of his native Sioux; his own life on tour and on show when he met all kinds of people (T.R., Jack London, Edward VII); and the degradation and deterioration of the Indian, ""a forlorn pilgrim on earth."" ""How empty is my wilderness."" Much as one would like to do so, one cannot elevate this beyond the very familiar knowns of the stand, decline and fall which it corroborates, indigenously.

Pub Date: March 1, 1971

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: McGraw-Hill

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1971

Categories: NONFICTION