Sioux or Dakota Nation / W.E. Rosenfelt.  Minneapolis : T.S. Denison & Co., 1973.  (Grades 4-6) 

Rosenfelt collaborated with Ed McGaa, Oglala  Sioux, and as a result we have a straightforward 
and sensitive text  which strives for honesty.  Unfortunately, illustrations are very  mediocre pen 
and ink drawings; the text would have been much better  served by photographs.  Although the 
title implies an end to the  Lakota Nation, Rosenfelt points out that the culture is very much  alive.
  The section on religion is especially well-done.  Highly  recommended. Reviewd by: Lisa Mitten 
  and Naomi Caldwell-Wood 

A second Look: First, it's probably impossible to find; that company doesn't even exist any more. 
And that's just as well.  Second, at the time it was written and for quite a few years afterwards, 
some of us who know him don't think Ed McGaa, then a Northwest Airlines pilot and involved in 
local real-estate politics (airport land,money, nothing to do with Native people) is sensitive or 
culturally knowledgeable. Many of us cannot foget he was the only Native person (there were 
dozens of SD white people) to testify in favor of the death penalty for Thomas White Hawk in 
South Dakota in 1970, not long before this so-called "sensitive" book was written. 

Not long after it, McGaa was parlaying his financial expertise hustling hazardous waste disposal 
companies to go out to South Dakota and dump on Pine Ridge rez land, thus avoiding federal 
environmental regulations of hazardous waste.  He was ahead of his time, but a good many 
Lakotas were ahead of him then, too; it didn't happen. 

Lately, he has taken to promoting himself (now retired from NWA) as a spiritual elder. His latest 
literary production is a book about how to do a sweat-lodge by the numbers for New Agers. 
So it's guilt by association, or source, I guess, because I haven't actually seen this little book. 
If in fact it's sensitive or has any kind of authentic culture, that must have come from the 
non-Indian actual writer. Not a book to seek out, in short. McGaa is basically a rich former 
commercial pilot, much involved in real estate investments, who  wants to be an Indian now 
that he's retired with plenty of money.  During the time when South Dakota Pine Ridge Lakota 
were enduring a terrorism and death rate that amounted to a secret war on Native Pine Ridge 
families, McGaa was looking out for No. 1, And that was right when somebody wrote this book 
he put his name on. New Agers, now, like him fine, though. Paula Giese