The Lakota Way Summary

According to Tyler Troudt once said, “The past cannot be changed forgotten to edit or erased it can only be accepted.” In the book The Lakota Way, it is talking about all the old stories that no one talks about anymore. Some of the stories are about respect, honor, love, sacrifice, truth, bravery. Joseph M. Marshall the third wrote this story so that young adults around the world and mainly the Lakota people know their culture, so they knew all the stories about the people long ago. What the author is writing about is all information that today’s generation will never know about because most of the elder that even knew or know the stories have passed away or the young people just aren’t interested in listening to them anymore. The first story …show more content…
The first wife gets jealous because she never thought she would have to share her husband, the second wife was younger and her grandparents came up to the man name White Wing. They told White Wing that they want to see her married and happy. The first wife finally bore a child, a son after many years. So when the husband left to get the second wife named Necklace, the first wife Red Shawl left that night intending to go visit her cousin. Some of the people have seen this before where the first wife gets jealous and leaves. Red Shawl traveled many days she decided to stop. When a storm came, it was a flash flood, she did not have time to climb out of the gully she was in but she spotted a sturdy cottonwood. She put her son up there and strapped him to the tree, and then the water washed her away. The next day she wakes up, she only remember certain things. Then she remembers her son left in the cottonwood, she begins to get scared and hope that he is okay. So she gets up and begins her journey back to the gully when she came across the cottonwood tree she did not find her son. She begins to cry, she thought about how her girlish jealousy caused this. She begins to think about what she would tell White Wing and that he might banish her for killing their son. So she starts walking from where she came from looking for the cradleboard. She …show more content…
This young boy at the age of twelve he could make arrows better than most grown men can; and by the time he was fourteen he was deadly with a bow. He also could look at a pair of tracks and tell you what it was and when it traveled there. He was quiet and almost always alone because of this his father worried. One day his uncle decided to put his skills to work and invited him hunting, he helped set up camp this first day and the second he watched the camp and the meat and hide they got on the first day. He went to get water and when he was going back to camp there was a bear there. He was thinking about what he should do if whether or not he could kill it. When he realized his heart was beating really loud, then he hears a loud growl behind him, he turns around with his bow drawn and it was a bear. He shot at the bear not knowing if he it or not, but he searched and he found blood and that he injured the bear. The other hunters returned and asked him how it went he did not know if he should tell them about the bear or not. They called the hunter that was keeping guard Hoka, he grew into a fine young man and later in his ceremony his father and his uncle gave him the name Naicinji, the defender. This name he never dishonored, he was a skilled hunter and a strong warrior. His family well fed and dressed, he also saw to the needy. As a fighting man he won many war honors, but he always