Sioux critics charge that bestselling Hanta Yo is demeaning
Some two dozen Sioux Indians sat in a semicircle on a pine-shaded lawn in Lincoln, Neb. One by one the Sioux rose to denounce Hanta Yo, Ruth Beebe Hill's bestselling book that reviewers have touted as the Indian version of Roots. Complained Ben Black Bear Sr., a steely-haired medicine man who addressed the crowd in his native Lakota: "I wouldn't look upon the Indian people as behaving like pte [buffalo]."
Neither would Hill, 66, who spent 30 years studying Indian culture to write her "documented novel"...
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