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Reviewed by Jamie Michele for Readers' Favorite
Joe Starita’s The Dull Knifes of Pine Ridge traces four generations of one Oglala Lakota family across a century. The book begins with Guy Dull Knife Sr., nearly ninety-five in a Colorado nursing home, then reaches back to Chief Dull Knife and the Northern Cheyenne flight from Indian Territory toward their homeland. His son George grows up after Wounded Knee before traveling through Europe with Buffalo Bill. Guy Sr. is raised at Pine Ridge, attends government schools, then serves in the First World War. His son, Guy Dull Knife Jr., later returns from Vietnam to a reservation divided by political violence. Through each generation, Starita follows the family’s efforts to keep the Lakota language moving forward while ceremony survives beside it, even as the world around Pine Ridge repeatedly changes.
Joe Starita’s The Dull Knifes of Pine Ridge is a spectacular biography and fleshed-out genealogy compilation, and Starita is excellent at keeping America’s past inside one family. The best part is how often a documented event returns through someone who lived with its aftermath. My favorite part comes in what feels like a true full-circle moment, when Guy Dull Knife Jr. takes his children to Fort Robinson. Nellie sees the 1873 White House photograph of Chief Dull Knife in the museum and tells nearby visitors, “That’s my great-great-grandfather.” Later, Guy teaches the children how to dig a wild turnip from the hillside, then watches them find one on their own. Starita makes that final journey beautiful because the past is still being handed forward in ordinary moments. Exhaustively researched and beautifully written, readers who enjoy American history will adore this book. Very highly recommended.
