It could have happened. A descendent in the same blood line as Crazy Horse reflects on the Corps of Discovery staying alive and William Clark’s racist attitudes
Author Archives: Ben Sherman
Ben Sherman is an Indigenous member of the Oglala Lakota (Sioux) Nation, born and raised on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He is a founding board member and Chairman of the World Indigenous Tourism Alliance. A national leader in the development of indigenous tourism efforts in the US with a master's degree in business management, he also is co-founder of the American Indian/Alaska Native Tourism Association. Sherman has spoken at numerous international venues on the subject of Indigenous tourism and native arts, and has worked to create and promote a set of values for Indigenous tourism that includes cultural preservation, environmental stewardship and community development. He embraces beliefs in the kinship among all life forms, reciprocal relationships with the natural world and reverence for the earth as a living being.