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

Ostler, Jeffrey. (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0521793467
ISBN: 9780521793469
ISBN: 0521605903 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780521605908 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
viii, 387 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

"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.