A Sioux Chronicle (The Civilization of the American Indian Series)
Though confined to the great Dakota reservation in 1878, the still-defiant Sioux did not end their struggle with the white man until well into the twentieth century. Throughout the last decades of the nineteenth century the Sioux-finding themselves united for the first time in their history-waged...
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Though confined to the great Dakota reservation in 1878, the still-defiant Sioux did not end their struggle with the white man until well into the twentieth century. Throughout the last decades of the nineteenth century the Sioux-finding themselves united for the first time in their history-waged a cold war with the United States Department of the Interior, the Indian Bureau, the various Indian agents sent to supervise Sioux Reservation life, and the so-called Indian Friends of the East, who sought to "school and church" the Sioux into submission.
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780806124834 (0806124830)
ASIN: 0806124830
Publish date: 1993-12-15
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Pages no: 378
Edition language: English