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Author Ostler, Jeffrey.

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

Publication Info. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  978.004 O85P    Check Shelf
Description viii, 387 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Series Studies in North American Indian history
Cambridge studies in North American Indian history.
Bibliography 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.
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.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples, Treatment of -- Great Plains -- History.
ISBN 0521793467
0521605903 paperback
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