From the river's edge

"John Tatekeya, a Dakotah and a cattleman in Missouri River country, searches for a way to reconcile the legacies of his people with the contradictory ways of the white culture."
"Seeing the Missouri River country of the Sioux is like seeing where the earth first recognized humanity. Yet the white man's humanity is forcing wrenching change upon the land: the time is the late sixties, and the Missouri River Power Project, just completed, is unleashing water on the lands that have nourished the Sioux, physically and spiritually, for countless generations. It is a new world, and this is called progress."@en
"Seeing the Missouri River country of the Sioux is like seeing where the earth first recognized humanity. Yet the white man's humanity is forcing wrenching change upon the land: the time is the late sixties, and the Missouri River Power Project, just completed, is unleashing water on the lands that have nourished the Sioux, physically and spiritually, for countless generations. It is a new world, and this is called progress."