From Back Cover

Storyteller, rebel, medicine man, Lame Deer was born almost eight years ago on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota.  A full-blooded Sioux, he has been many things in the white man's world --- rodeo clown, painter, prisoner.  But, above all, he is a holy man of the Lakota tribe.

The story he tells is one of harsh youth and reckless manhood, shotgun marriage and divorce, history and folklore as rich today as ever --- and of his fierce struggle to keep pride alive, though living as a stranger in his own ancestral land.