Lance and the Shield
Most Americans have some vague idea of who Sitting Bull was - some image that can be dredged up out of memory of a solemn man, sitting very upright, with all the cares of a people written across his face.
But most of us do not have any comprehensive sense of what his contributions were to his own people or to the American nation as a whole. Robert Utley helps fill in the gaps in our collective memory with The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull. The book is an example of what is often called "new history" in that the style is quite literary. Utley has also written, at least to some extent, from the perspective of the Lakota Sioux: This is not an entirely objective portrait of Sitting Bull. However, this should not be interpreted to be a criticism of Utley because the thoroughness and depth of his scholarship give one faith that his version of the story of the life of Sitting Bull is both fair and accurate.
The title of the book comes from what Utley sees as Sitting Bull's wise - if in the end unsuccessful - attempt to protect his people using both defensive means (represented by the shield of the title) as well as offensive ones (represented by the lance of the title). Sitting Bull pursued these offensive and defensive strategies in both military and economic terms. This metaphor of defense combined with offense runs throughout the book, and Utley describes both why Sitting Bull chose the strategy he did at various points in his life as well as why this twinned strategy was ultimately unsuccessful in saving more of Sioux culture - as well as why it was successful in salvaging some of this nation's heritage.
In addition to the metaphorical conceit of the shield and the lance that Utley writes about in this book, he also writes continuously about the four central "virtues" of Sioux life as a way of demonstrating the most important cultural influences on Sitting Bull. These Lakota Sioux values are: wisdom, bravery, fortitude and generosity. Sitting Bull tried to incorporate these virtues into each of his actions, recognizing that if he failed to do so - if he acted...
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