The Dull Knifes of Pine Ridge

An award-winning investigative journalist and former New York bureau chief for The Miami Herald, Joe Starita is now an associate professor of journalism at the University of Nebraska.

"This is a living, heartbreaking account of four generations of a Lakota Sioux family... A truly fine book rich in historical and personal detail of a family and a people."-The Boston Globe. "No superfluous sentimentality impedes this saga; it moves across the pages with an immediacy that belies its century-plus timespan... The Dull Knifes of Pine Ridge is a story of raw endurance and of a passion for the honorable freedom of mind, heart and body."-The Miami Herald. "A fine story of cultural survival and a history that should find a place alongside those of a Crazy Horse or a Sitting Bull-integral parts of the American experience."-Booklist. "You get to know four generations of Dull Knifes as intimately as the characters of a good novel... [Starita] has written a compassionate book, but an angry book."-The Seattle Times & Post-Intelligencer.