Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
1992
Abstract
Bighorse The Warrior recounts the story of Gus Bighorse, a Navajo warrior who lived through attacks by Kit Carson and the United States Army, the Navajos' Long Walk, and the death of thousands of his people in the nineteenth century. In the oral history tradition of the Navajo people, Bighorse passed his stories on to his children, and this book stands as a tribute to the clarity and accuracy of that tradition. In this interesting and readable personal account, his daughter Tiana Bighorse gives voice to his memory. This book is not the story of a tragic victimization of the Navajos but of the triumph of human vision and courage.
Comments
Published in Great Plains Quarterly 12:1 (Winter 1992). Copyright © 1992 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.