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The first comprehensive history of the Lakota Indians and their profound role in shaping America's history. This first complete account of the Lakota Indians traces their rich and often surprising history from the early sixteenth to the early twenty-first century. Pekka Hämäläinen explores the Lakotas' roots as marginal hunter-gatherers and reveals how they reinvented themselves twice: first as a river people who dominated the Missouri Valley, America's great commercial artery, and then-in what was America's first sweeping westward expansion-as a horse people who ruled supreme on the vast high plains. The Lakotas are imprinted in American historical memory. Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull are iconic figures in the American imagination, but in this groundbreaking book they emerge as something different: the architects of Lakota America, an expansive and enduring Indigenous regime that commanded human fates in the North American interior for generations. Hämäläinen's deeply researched and engagingly written history places the Lakotas at the center of American history, and the results are revelatory.
Lakota Indians --- History. --- United States --- History
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Teton Indians --- Dakota Indians --- Indians of North America --- Lakota Indians. --- Lakota Indians --- Dakota Indians - South Dakota --- Indians of North America - South Dakota
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The first comprehensive history of the Lakota Indians and their profound role in shaping America's history. This first complete account of the Lakota Indians traces their rich and often surprising history from the early sixteenth to the early twenty-first century. Pekka Hämäläinen explores the Lakotas' roots as marginal hunter-gatherers and reveals how they reinvented themselves twice: first as a river people who dominated the Missouri Valley, America's great commercial artery, and then-in what was America's first sweeping westward expansion-as a horse people who ruled supreme on the vast high plains. The Lakotas are imprinted in American historical memory. Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull are iconic figures in the American imagination, but in this groundbreaking book they emerge as something different: the architects of Lakota America, an expansive and enduring Indigenous regime that commanded human fates in the North American interior for generations. Hämäläinen's deeply researched and engagingly written history places the Lakotas at the center of American history, and the results are revelatory.
History of North America --- Indios de América --- Historia --- Estados Unidos --- Lakota Indians --- History. --- United States --- History
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The last significant clash of arms in the American Indian Wars took place on December 29, 1890, on the banks of Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. Of the 350 Teton Sioux Indians there, two-thirds were women and children. When the smoke cleared, 84 men and 62 women and children lay dead, their bodies scattered along a stretch of more than a mile where they had been trying to flee. Of some 500 soldiers and scouts, about 30 were dead-some, probably, from their own crossfire. Wounded Knee has excited contradictory accounts and heated emotions. To answer whether it was a battle or a massacre,
Wounded Knee Massacre, S.D., 1890. --- Lakota Indians --- Ghost dance. --- History.
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Lakota Indians. --- Lakota Indians --- Indians of North America --- Lakota Sioux Indians --- Lakotah Indians --- Prairie dweller Indians --- Sioux Indians, Western --- Teton Indians --- Teton Sioux Indians --- Thítunwan Indians --- Titunwan Indians --- Western Sioux Indians --- Siouan Indians --- Indian inspectors --- Government relations. --- Government policy
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"The expansive ancestral territory of the Blackfoot Nation ranged from the North Saskatchewan River in Alberta to the Missouri River in Montana and from the Rocky Mountains east to the Cypress Hills. This buffalo-rich land sustained the Blackfoot for generations until the arrival of whiskey traders, unscrupulous wolfers, smallpox epidemics, and the encroachment of white settlers on traditional hunting grounds. These factors led to widespread poverty and demoralization, forcing the Blackfoot to appeal to the Canadian government for protection. The result of this appeal was Treaty Seven, one of eleven numbered treaties signed across western Canada between 1871 and 1921. Under its terms, the Blackfoot gave up all of southern Alberta in exchange for reserves based upon five people per square mile. In practice, the treaty rendered the Blackfoot powerless and wholly dependent on the government. The Great Blackfoot Treaties examines the context and enormous impact of Treaty Seven, as well as other treaties affecting the Blackfoot during this time period."--Publisher.
Sihasapa Indians --- Blackfeet Indians (Dakota) --- Blackfoot Indians (Dakota) --- Indians of North America --- Lakota Indians --- Government relations. --- Treaties.
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Broken Treaties is a comparative assessment of Indian treaty negotiation and implementation focusing on the first decade following the United States-Lakota Treaty of 1868 and Treaty Six between Canada and the Plains Cree (1876). Jill St. Germain argues that the "broken treaties" label imposed by nineteenth-century observers and perpetuated in the historical literature has obscured the implementation experience of both Native and non-Native participants and distorted our understanding of the relationships between them. As a result, historians have ignored the role of the Treaty of 1868 as the i
Cree Indians --- Lakota Indians --- Lakota Sioux Indians --- Lakotah Indians --- Prairie dweller Indians --- Sioux Indians, Western --- Teton Indians --- Teton Sioux Indians --- Thítunwan Indians --- Titunwan Indians --- Western Sioux Indians --- Siouan Indians --- Indians of North America --- Algonquian Indians --- Treaties. --- History --- Government relations.
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Wakinyan is an excellent overview of Lakota religious thought and practice, introducing readers to its essential components. Through finely detailed descriptions of rituals and various types of religious figures, Stephen E. Feraca explains the significance of such practices as the Sun Dance, sweat lodge ritual, vision quest, Yuwipi ritual, and peyote use. He also discusses the significance of herbs and religious artifacts and objects and explains the roles and responsibilities of medicine men and other religious practitioners. First written as a report for the Department of the Interior in 1963, Wakinyan has long been recognized as a classic study of Lakota religion. This edition retains most of the original text, with its first-rate ethnographic descriptions of religious practices. The author's new endnotes bring the reader up to date on changes in Lakota religion during the last three decades.
Lakota Indians --- Ethnic & Race Studies --- Gender & Ethnic Studies --- Social Sciences --- Lakota Sioux Indians --- Lakotah Indians --- Prairie dweller Indians --- Sioux Indians, Western --- Teton Indians --- Teton Sioux Indians --- Thítunwan Indians --- Titunwan Indians --- Western Sioux Indians --- Siouan Indians --- Indians of North America --- Religion
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