The Lakota Way: Stories and Lessons in Living

The author is from the Lakota tribe and grew up on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. His maternal grandparents raised him, and many of his stories feature them and the lessons they taught him. His grandparents practiced the traditional way of life, and they taught him lessons through patience. For example, his grandmother asked him to help her bead during a windstorm to help comfort him, and his grandfather allowed him to participate in the construction of a log house. He also writes about his father, Joseph Marshall II, who fought during World War II on Okinawa. His father later was able to recover from alcoholism. Marshall is a writer whose stories are intended to transmit and preserve Lakota culture. He writes about traditional Lakota lore, as well as about the history of the Lakota people battling white encroachment and fighting to retain their culture.