Joseph M. Marshall III

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Joseph M. Marshall III (born c. 1946,

Sicangu Oyate) son of Joseph Nelson Marshall Sr. and Hazel Lorraine Two Hawk-Marshall, is a historian, writer, teacher, craftsman, administrator, actor, and public speaker. He was a founding board member in 1971 of Sinte Gleska University, the tribal college at the Rosebud Indian Reservation
.

Marshall has published numerous non-fiction books based on Lakota oral history and culture. His book, The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn, won the 2008

PEN/Beyond Margins Award
.

Biography

Joseph Marshall III was born and raised on the

Sicangu Oyate (Rosebud Sioux, Lakota) tribe. He was raised in a traditional Lakota household by his maternal grandparents, where his first language was Lakota.[1] He grew up in the Horse Creek Community near White River (Maka Izita Wakpa, meaning "Smoking Earth River"). He learned English as a second language, and writes and publishes in English.[2]

After college, Marshall worked primarily as an English teacher at Todd County High School in

tribal college located at the reservation. He later taught at the college, helping develop a Native American studies curriculum.[2]

Marshall helped form a non-profit advocacy group for Native American students and parents. He has also worked as an educational and health programs administrator for the Rosebud Sioux Tribe. Along the way, he became a craftsman of traditional Lakota bows and arrows.[2]

Television

Marshall has also worked as an actor, appearing in several episodes of

Turner Network Television mini-series Into the West
.

Writing

Marshall writes mainly historical non-fiction about Lakota history and culture. In 1998, Scholar Mona Kratzert praised his work for its intimate presentation of Lakota culture.[3]

His works include the following:

  • Keep Going
  • Soldiers Falling into Camp: The Battles at the Rosebud and the Little Big Horn (1992, with Robert Kammen and Frederick Lefthand)
  • Winter of the Holy Iron (1994)
  • On Behalf of the Wolf and the First Peoples (1995)
  • The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History (2004)
  • The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn (2008)

He has also written essays based on Lakota culture and collected stories:

  • The Dance House: Stories from Rosebud (1998)
  • How Not to Catch Fish: And Other Adventures of Iktomi
  • The Lakota Way: Stories and Lessons for Living, (2012)
  • Walking with Grandfather: The Wisdom of Lakota Elders (2005)
  • Keep Going - The Art of Perseverance (2006)
  • The Power of Four: Leadership Lessons of Crazy Horse

In 2008, his book, The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn, won the

PEN/Beyond Margins Arts.[4] His fifth book, The Lakota Way: Stories and Lessons for Living (2002), was a finalist in the spiritual category for the prestigious "Books for a Better Life Award" from the Multiple Sclerosis Society of New York. It was also a finalist in the creative non-fiction category for the "PEN Center USA" award.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ Joseph Marshall website
  2. ^ a b c d "Joseph Marshal III", Akta Lakota Museum; accessed 16 July 2016
  3. ^ Kratzert 1998
  4. ^ "Joseph M. Marshall III: The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn."[permanent dead link], PEN American Center, Retrieved 19 July 2012.

References

  • Kratzert, Mona. "Native American Literature: Expanding the Canon," Collection Building Vol. 17, 1, 1998, p. 4

External links

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