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Lakota America : a new history of indigenous power  Cover Image Book Book

Lakota America : a new history of indigenous power / Pekka Hämäläinen.

Summary:

This account of the Lakota Indians traces their rich and often surprising history from the early sixteenth to the early twenty-first century. Pekka Hamalainen 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. Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull are iconic figures in the American imagination, but in this 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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780300215953
  • ISBN: 0300215959
  • Physical Description: ix, 530 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
  • Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Contains bibliographical references (pages 399-505) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction: Dark matter of history -- A place in the world -- Facing west -- The imperial cauldron -- The Lakota meridian -- The call of the White Buffalo Calf Woman -- Empires -- War -- Shapeshifters -- Upside-down soldiers -- Epilogue: The Lakota struggle for indigenous sovereignty.
Subject: Lakota Indians > History.
United States > History > 18th century.
United States > History > 19th century.
Lakota Indians.
United States.
Indianer
Lakota
USA
Genre: History.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

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  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Lummi Library E 99 .T34 H35 2019 678631 Stacks Available -


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