A life-changing solo voyage of discovery across the blood-soaked Great Plains. A pilgrimage to momentous sites of Native American heritage. Meet the amazing “invisible warriors” fighting impossible odds to reclaim their heritage and share in the American Dream without losing their unique identity, much as their ancestors fought on the battlefields to save their way of life.
Nurturing a half-century obsession with Native America and the Old Frontier, this now-retired corporate CEO takes the reader along on his astonishing solo road-trip through haunting places of intense tragedy and stunning triumphs, through Native American spiritual experiences that shook the atheist in him, plunging into the rough and tumble worlds that were Deadwood and Dodge City, chuckling gently over modern American idiosyncrasies. Neither a “white historian” nor a “red commentator, ” he visits both sides of the Native American experience and, in the most depressed Native Reservations, discovers exciting sparks of a brighter, more hopeful future emerging — a very different take on the usual Reservation stereotypes and stories of misery. This is an unusual and enthralling odyssey effortlessly plaiting space and time, easy to read, without pompous sermonizing.
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Acknowledgments
Foreword
Timelines & maps
Day 0 Dawn
Day 1 Westward Ho!
Day 2 Trail of Tears
Day 3 Landlocked Submarine
Day 4 Comanche Attack!
Day 5 A Missing Head
Day 6 Remington and the Chuck-wagons
Day 7 Death at Dawn
Day 8 Get the heck out of Dodge!
Day 9 Tornado on my tail
Day 10 Nabbed!
Day 11 Treachery
Day 12 Murder Most Foul
Day 13 Requiem
Day 14 The Last Medicine Man
Day 15 Invisible Warriors
Day 16 To the Missouri!
Day 17 Back to the Future
Day 18 The Berlin Wall…in South Dakota?
Day 19 Behold, the Holy Mountain
Day 20 Tasunko Witko
Day 21 Choo Choo Train
Day 22 Sin and Debauchery
Day 23 Witness to Murder
Day 24 One for the Underdog; Zero for Hubris
Day 25 Glory in Sunset
Day 26 Hippies and Hell’s Angels
Day 27 Trail’s End
Day 28 The Steaming Earth
Day 29 Bear Encounter
Day 30 Toksha Akhay
Afterword
Lakota Words Used in this Book
A Few Little-Known Facts
A brief reading and viewing list
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Chandra Lahiri is an ‘Indian from India’ who lives in the Sultanate of Oman. After many years as a global CEO, he now focuses on his lifelong passion for Native American heritage and the Old West. His wife is a Special Needs Educator in Oman, and his two sons live in the USA. He loves hearing from like-minded readers, at www.dawnvoyager.com
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