Crazy Horse scholar to speak Tuesday night

Marshall’s talk, which will be open to the public without charge, will set the stage for the Mari Sandoz Heritage Society’s annual conference at CSC later in the week. Mari Sandoz’ book, “Crazy Horse, Strange Man of the Oglalas” was selected as the featured book for this year’s conference,

. Marshall also plans to be at Fort Robinson, the site of Crazy Horse’s bayoneting, early Saturday morning to help start the tour that will conclude the conference.

Marshall was born and raised on the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation. His first language is Lakota as he was raised in a traditional native household by his maternal grandparents. In that environment, he also learned the ancient tradition of oral storytelling.

Marshall is a prolific writer. “The Journey of Crazy Horse: A Lakota History” is a biography from the Lakota viewpoint and is based primarily on oral accounts. It was his sixth book and is now in its fifth hard-cover printing. It has been featured twice on the C-SPAN Book TV broadcast.

An earlier book, “The Lakota Way: Stories and Lessons for Living,” is in its 15th printing.

In March 2005, Marshall released “Quiet Thunder: The Wisdom of Crazy Horse,” a six-part audio teaching series. Later that year, he also released “Walking with Grandfather: The Wisdom of Lakota Elders,” a book and audio CD combination.

Five more of his books are due for release in 2007 and 2008. They include “The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn,” which is due out in May 2007.

Another book in the pipeline is “The Power of Four: Crazy Horse on Leadership.”

Several of Marshall’s books and audio versions have received national awards. He has appeared in several television documentaries and was a technical advisor and narrator for the Turner Network Television and Dreamworks six-part mini-series “Into the West” in 2005.

Marshall is a practitioner of primitive Lakota archery, which he learned from his grandfather, and is a specialist in wilderness survival. He also is one of the founders and a charter board member of Sinte Gleska University on the Rosebud Reservation.