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Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
Analyzes the characters and contributions of the Plains Indians leader and forefront Union cavalry officer while explaining how the conflict forged a Native American alliance and set the stage for the reservation confinement of major tribal leaders.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
In this enthralling narrative, professor and award-winning author Jeffrey Ostler recounts the Lakota Sioux's loss of their spiritual homeland and their remarkable legal battle to regain it. Moving easily from battlefields to reservations to Supreme Court chambers, Ostler captures the strength that bore the Lakotas through the worst times and kept alive the dream of reclaiming their cherished lands.
Author
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1866 Know County, NE witnessed the arrival of approximately a thousand thoroughly defeated Dakota Indians. There new home was the Santee Reservation. Carefully researched and documented, this book will shock readers with the bloody, violent details of Santee's past that all sides have conveniently chosen to forget.
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