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Author:

Ostler, Jeffrey.

Title:

The Plains Sioux and U.S. colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee / Jeffrey Ostler.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2004

Description:

viii, 387 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Dakota Indians--History--19th century.
Dakota Indians--Government relations.
Indians, Treatment of--Great Plains--History.
Ghost dance--History.
United States--Race relations.
United States--Politics and government--19th century.
United States--Colonization.
Dakota (Indiens)--Histoire--19e siècle.
Dakota (Indiens)--Relations avec l'État.
Indiens d'Amérique, Attitudes envers les--Grandes Plaines--Histoire.
Danse des esprits--Histoire.
États-Unis--Relations raciales.
États-Unis--Politique et gouvernement--19e siècle.
Sioux (volk)
Behandeling.
Expansie (macht)
Kolonisatie.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

"Vilest miscreants of the savage race: : the Plains Sioux in an empire of liberty -- "Futile efforts to subjugate them" : failures of conquest -- "Doubtless an unauthorized promise" : the politics of the Great Sioux war -- "Force is the only thing" : the killing of Crazy Horse -- "We were raised in this country" : claiming place -- "I work so much it makes me poor" : the reservation economy -- "Just as well with my hair on" : colonial education -- "All men are different" : the politics of religion and culture -- "Great trouble and bad feeling" : government agents and Sioux leaders -- "Enough to crush us down" : struggles for land -- "When the earth shakes do not be afraid" : the ghost dance as an anticolonial movement -- "To bring my people back into the hoop" : the development of the Lakota ghost dance -- "The most serious Indian war of our history" : the army's invasion -- "If he fights, destroy him" : the road to Wounded Knee -- "A valley of death" : Wounded Knee.

Series:

Studies in North American Indian history

ISBN:

9780521605908 (pbk.)
0521605903 (pbk.)
9780521793469
0521793467

LCCN:

2003070009

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OSAX771 -- Grand View University Library (Des Moines)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

N2AX314 -- Divine Word College - Matthew Jacoby Library (Epworth)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)