Track.11: Lakota Spirit
Music by Chris Fisher. Lyrics by Andrew Hogarth.

For more than three decades from one of the earliest incidents in 1854, through to their victory at the Little Bighorn in 1876 and finally their defeat at Wounded Knee in 1890, the Lakota of the Great Plains resisted the intrusion of the white man into their lands and way of life.

The twentieth century witnessed their desperate struggle to maintain their identity within a foreign culture. The healing of the wounds of their ancestors continues to be a long and painful journey but the Lakota have emerged victorious. There is hope for the future.

Lakota Spirit is a tribute to the indomitable spirit of the Lakota Nation and to the memory of Oglala Brule Lakota Jack Little (1920 -1985), a straight talking man whose own story chronicles much of the turbulent history of the Lakota.

Andrew Hogarth.