Growing up in a traditional Lakota family on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota (USA) in the 1950s, Garry (a.k.a. Theȟíya Kté) tells about becoming a warrior at the age of twelve, followed by his involvement in history-making events such as the seventy-one-day takeover of Wounded Knee in 1973 and the Mní Wičóni movement to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016/17. This book is a result of a long-term co-working between the author and Corina. Delia J. Welch and Juanita Schmalnauer also helped a lot and contributed pictures. Eventually, Ronny brought everything together in a beautiful design and got the book ready for print and release. It’s Only The Beginning is a memoir written in English while using words and terms of the Lakota language. It also includes various pictures and is printed on high-quality natural paper. Available worldwide in bookstores and online shops such as Amazon.com, Hugendubel.de, Amazon.de, and bod.de. Update: Sadly, Garry Rowland passed on to the spirit world on September 3, 2018. One of his visions was the reinstallment of his museum, the Holocaust Museum At Wounded Knee, which is a museum for the fading culture of the Lakota people. So all proceeds from the book sales go to his children and may help to make his dream come true.
Garry Rowland was a descendant of great chiefs like Crazy Horse and Red Cloud. As a close friend of Russell Means‘ and as an Indian patriot and diplomat from the Republic of Lakotah, he fought for his people’s treaty rights all his adult life.