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Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
1963.
Language
English
Description
This history of the Sioux in the 19th century ranges from its forced migration to the reservation to the Wounded Knee Massacre.
First published in 1963, Robert M. Utley's classic study of the Sioux Nation was a landmark achievement in Native American historical research. The St. Louis Dispatch called it "by far the best treatment of the complex and controversial relationship between the Sioux and their conquerors yet presented and should be must...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[1973]
Language
English
Description
Classic of American anthropology explores messianic cult behind Indian resistance, from Pontiac to the 1890s. Extremely detailed, thorough account, citing many primary documents as well as Mooney's own anthropological data. Originally published in 1896 as Part Two of Bureau of American Ethnology Report XIV. 38 plates, 49 other illustrations.
Author
Publisher
University of Nevada Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Lyman "Bean" Wilson, a half-breed Nevada Indian and middle-aged professor of journalism at Lakota University in South Dakota, reassesses his life. The result is a string of family reconnections, sexual adventures, crises at work, pipe and sweat-lodge ceremonies, and-through his membership in the secret Ghost Dancers Society-political activism, culminating in a successful plot to blow the nose off of the George Washington statue on Mt. Rushmore"--...
