![]() ![]() In the meantime, Frazier renews his acquaintance with an Oglala Sioux named Le War Lance, whom he met on a street Frazier mentions her early on, but many pages go by before she actually appears. The principal hero of this book is one SueAnne Big Crow. Say, has to do with the Indians' insistence on individual freedom, and more generally with their tradition of embracing ''heroism.'' ''What I want is just as 'Indian,' ''he writes, ''just as traditional, but harder to pin down.'' This special thing, he seems to ![]() He doesn't want to adopt their religion or copy their dress or collect theirĪrt, though he admires all of those. Indeed, he says he wants to be like an Indian, and the Oglala Sioux are his favorite tribe. The place holds powerful attractions for him. ''The only word for it, I'm afraid, is evil.'' And yet ''Beneath all that is something bigger and darker and harder to look at straight on,'' Frazier writes. Violence, poverty, alcoholism, intertribal feuding, all afflict The setting of his latest book, ''On the Rez,'' is the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, the headquarters of the Oglala Sioux. Ne virtue of lengthy reporting is that it tends to enlarge a writer's view of humanity, and it seems to have had that effect on Ian Frazier.
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