New Sources of Indian History 1850 1891 the Ghost Dance the Prairie Sioux a Miscellany, Paperback - Stanley Vestal

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Nephew to Sitting Bull, chief of the Sioux, Pte San Hunka (White Bull) was a famous warrior in his own right. He had been on the warpath against wh...

Reducere. The fifteen Sioux (and one Cheyenne) who speak in Lakota Recollections of the Custer Fight witnessed Custer's Last Stand. Their testimony sheds lig...

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Reducere. In 1885 a genteel New England girl traveled to the western frontier to open a school on the Great Sioux Reservation. For six years, Elaine Goodale ...

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Reducere. An angel has returned to Paris. But is it the Angel of Music...or Death?Two years have passed since Christine fled the opera house, put the memorie...

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Fourth and final volume in a series documenting Anglo-Finnish relations and acclaimed by the TLS as 'a fascinating prism through which to view mode...

Reducere. The 1870 Ghost Dance was a significant but too often disregarded transformative historical movement with particular impact on the Native peoples of...

Reducere. The inception of the Ghost Dance religion in 1890 marked a critical moment in Lakota history. Yet, because this movement alarmed government officia...

Reducere. BEGINNING WITH THE GEOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION of Indian Valley, Pat continues with descriptions of Mountain Maidu life upon the arrival of white men ...

DescriptionIn 1890, the United States government outlawed the Ghost Dance. The ceremony remained illegal until 1978. Why? Did the authorities fear ...

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Reducere. The Dakota War (1862) was a searing event in Minnesota history as well as a signal event in the lives of Dakota people. Sarah F. Wakefield was caug...

Reducere. The Great Sioux War of 1876-1877 is memorable to most Americans because of Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer's last stand at the Battle of the Li...

The 50 years of artistic and mass photography taken into consideration in this volume are unquestionably the most important in the twentieth centur...

Reducere. On March 30, 1891--less than four months after the military suppression of the Lakota Ghost Dance at Wounded Knee, South Dakota--twenty-three Lakot...

An anthology of primary documents for the study of Central Asian history. It illustrates important aspects of the social, cultural, political, and ...

Reducere. In the late 1880s, John A. Anderson, a young Swedish-born settler near Fort Niobrara, Nebraska, bought a camera with earnings from carpentry work. ...

Reducere. In 1981, while working as New Mexico State Historian, Stanley M. Hordes began to hear stories of Hispanos who lit candles on Friday night and absta...

Reducere. One week after the infamous June 1876 Battle of the Little Big Horn, when news of the defeat of General George Armstrong Custer and his 7th Cavalry...

Reducere. Edwin Thompson Denig, for more than twenty years a fur trader on the Upper Missouri and married to an Assiniboine woman, was an acute and objective...

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Reducere. In the 1860s and 1870s, the United States government forced most western Native Americans to settle on reservations. These ever-shrinking pieces of...

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Reducere. NEVADA, 1872. Out of the merciless 40-Mile Desert, a stranger appears in the town of Golgotha, home to the blessed and the damned. He carries with ...

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Reducere. The Indian War fought during the American Civil WarThe Dakota Sioux War (also known as the Little Crow Uprising and Little Crow's War, named after ...

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Over three hundred years ago, the last king of Golconda entrusted his faithful companion with a secret before charging out to meet his enemies in a...

Reducere. Established in 1884 and operative for nearly a century, the Chilocco Indian School in Oklahoma was one of a series of off-reservation boarding scho...

Reducere. This useful guidebook surveys more than eighty ghost towns, grouped by geographic area. First published in 1981 and now available only from the Uni...