Richard Moves Camp\'s My Grandfather\'s Altar is an oral-literary narrative account of Five Generations of Lakota religious tradition.
My Grandfather\'s Altar offers the rare opportunity to learn firsthand how one family\'s descendants played a pivotal role in revitalizing Lakota religion in the twentieth century..
Wóptuȟ\'a, his two sons, James Moves Camp and Charles Horn Chips, his grandson Sam Moves Camp, and his great-great-grandson Richard Moves Camp all became well-respected Lakota spiritual leaders.
Indian Religious Crimes Code outlawed Indian religious ceremonies with the threat of imprisonment.
The Lakota remember the descendants of Wóptuȟ\'a for their roles in preserving Lakota ceremonial traditions during the official prohibition period (1883-1934), when the U.
S.
Moves Camp is the great-great-grandson of Wóptuȟ\'a (Chips), the Holy man remembered for providing Crazy Horse with war medicines of power and protection.
Richard Moves Camp\'s My Grandfather\'s Altar is an oral-literary narrative account of Five Generations of Lakota religious tradition
