With My Own Eyes represents her attempt to correct misconceptions about Lakota history. Bettelyoun's narrative was recorded during the 1930s another Lakota historian, Josephine Waggoner. This detailed, insightful account of Lakota history was never previously published.Emily Levine is a longtime landscaper in Lincoln, Nebraska. With My Own Eyes tells the history of the nineteenth-century Lakotas. Susan Bordeaux Bettelyoun (1857?1945), the daughter of a French-American fur trader and a Brul