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Book The Sitting Bull Affair

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  • Author : Robert Stewart
  • Publisher : Archway Publishing
  • Release : 2017-01-30
  • ISBN : 1480837164
  • Pages : 456 pages

Download or read book The Sitting Bull Affair written by Robert Stewart and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the Battle of the Little Bighorn is a legendary episode in American history, what happened to Sitting Bull and his followers afterward is less well known. Ruthlessly harried by US troops, roughly twenty-five hundred Sioux Indians sought refuge in Canada. They crossed at the Cypress Hills near Fort Walsh, a North-West Mounted Police post that was under the command of Major James Walsh. Faced with the possibility of a full-scale war uniting all the tribes in the area, Walsh laid down the law to Sitting Bull, promising to help the Sioux with food and ammunition strictly for hunting. Walsh was in command of the situationbut only because Sitting Bull recognized him as a true friend who would do everything possible to help the Sioux. Although the Americans wanted the Sioux back and the Canadians wanted them to go back, the Canadian government was bound by its promise to grant refuge to the Indians as long as they obeyed the law. Narrating actual events and depicting Sitting Bull and his followers, this historical novel describes the war against the Sioux and other tribes in the late nineteenth century.

Book Woman Walking Ahead

Download or read book Woman Walking Ahead written by Eileen Pollack and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her efforts were counterproductive; she was ordered to leave the reservation, and the Standing Rock Sioux were bullied into signing away their land. But she returned with her teen-age son, settling at Sitting Bull's camp on the Grand River. In recognition of her unusual qualities, Sitting Bull's people called her Toka heya mani win, Woman Walking Ahead.".

Book Blood Brothers

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  • Author : Deanne Stillman
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2017-10-24
  • ISBN : 1476773548
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Blood Brothers written by Deanne Stillman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2018 Ohioana Book Award for Nonfiction “Deanne Stillman’s splendid Blood Brothers eloquently explores the clash of cultures on the Great Plains that initially united the two legends and how this shared experience contributed to the creation of their ironic political alliance.” —Bobby Bridger, Austin Chronicle It was in Brooklyn, New York, in 1883 that William F. Cody—known across the land as Buffalo Bill—conceived of his Wild West show, an “equestrian extravaganza” featuring cowboys and Indians. It was a great success, and for four months in 1885 the Lakota chief Sitting Bull appeared in the show. Blood Brothers tells the story of these two iconic figures through their brief but important collaboration, in “a compelling narrative that reads like a novel” (Orange County Register). “Thoroughly researched, Deanne Stillman’s account of this period in American history is elucidating as well as entertaining” (Booklist), complete with little-told details about the two men whose alliance was eased by none other than Annie Oakley. When Sitting Bull joined the Wild West, the event spawned one of the earliest advertising slogans: “Foes in ’76, Friends in ’85.” Cody paid his performers well, and he treated the Indians no differently from white performers. During this time, the Native American rights movement began to flourish. But with their way of life in tatters, the Lakota and others availed themselves of the chance to perform in the Wild West show. When Cody died in 1917, a large contingent of Native Americans attended his public funeral. An iconic friendship tale like no other, Blood Brothers is a timeless story of people from different cultures who crossed barriers to engage each other as human beings. Here, Stillman provides “an account of the tragic murder of Sitting Bull that’s as good as any in the literature…Thoughtful and thoroughly well-told—just the right treatment for a subject about which many books have been written before, few so successfully” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

Book Sitting Bull

Download or read book Sitting Bull written by Edward J. Rielly and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2007-08-30 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the life story of nineteenth-century Sioux leader Sitting Bull, describing his abilities as a warrior, the Fort Laramie Treaty, the Battle of the Little Bighorn, his experiences with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, and his death.

Book Prairie Man

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  • Author : Norman E. Matteoni
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2015-06-16
  • ISBN : 1442244763
  • Pages : 393 pages

Download or read book Prairie Man written by Norman E. Matteoni and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One week after the infamous June 1876 Battle of the Little Big Horn, when news of the defeat of General George Armstrong Custer and his 7th Cavalry troops reached the American public, Sitting Bull became the most wanted hostile Indian in America. He had resisted the United States’ intrusions into Lakota prairie land for years, refused to sign treaties, and called for a gathering of tribes at Little Big Horn. He epitomized resistance. Sitting Bull’s role at Little Big Horn has been the subject of hundreds of historical works, but while Sitting Bull was in fact present, he did not engage in the battle. The conflict with Custer was a benchmark to the subsequent events. There are other battles than those of war, and the conflict between Sitting Bull and Indian Agent James McLaughlin was one of those battles. Theirs was a fight over the hearts and minds of the Lakota. U.S. Government policy toward Native Americans after Little Big Horn was to give them a makeover as Americans after finally and firmly displacing them from their lands. They were to be reconstituted as Christian, civilized and made farmers. Sitting Bull, when forced to accept reservation life, understood who was in control, but his view of reservation life was very different from that of the Indian Bureau and its agents. His people’s birth right was their native heritage and culture. Although redrawn by the Government, he believed that the prairie land still held a special meaning of place for the Lakota. Those in power dictated a contrary view – with the closing of the frontier, the Indian was challenged to accept the white road or vanish, in the case of the Lakota, that position was given personification in the form of Agent James McLaughlin. This book explores the story within their conflict and offers new perspectives and insights.

Book The Arrest and Killing of Sitting Bull

Download or read book The Arrest and Killing of Sitting Bull written by John Melvin Carroll and published by Arthur H. Clark Company. This book was released on 1986 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Last Sovereigns

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  • Author : Robert M. Utley
  • Publisher : Bison Books
  • Release : 2020-10-01
  • ISBN : 1496220226
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book The Last Sovereigns written by Robert M. Utley and published by Bison Books. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Last Sovereigns is the story of how Sioux chief Sitting Bull resisted the white man’s ways as a last best hope for the survival of an indigenous way of life on the Great Plains—a nomadic life based on buffalo and indigenous plants scattered across the Sioux’s historical territories that were sacred to him and his people. Robert M. Utley explores the final four years of Sitting Bull’s life of freedom, from 1877 to 1881. To escape American vengeance for his assumed role in the annihilation of Gen. George Armstrong Custer’s command at the Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull led his Hunkpapa following into Canada. There he and his people interacted with the North-West Mounted Police, in particular Maj. James M. Walsh. The Mounties welcomed the Lakota and permitted them to remain if they promised to abide by the laws and rules of Queen Victoria, the White Mother. But the Canadian government wanted the Indians to return to their homeland and the police made every effort to persuade them to leave. They were aided by the diminishing herds of buffalo on which the Indians relied for sustenance and by the aggressions of Canadian Native groups that also relied on the buffalo. Sitting Bull and his people endured hostility, tragedy, heartache, indecision, uncertainty, and starvation and responded with stubborn resistance to the loss of their freedom and way of life. In the end, starvation doomed their sovereignty. This is their story.

Book Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs  for the Year

Download or read book Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for the Year written by United States. Office of Indian Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Life of Sitting Bull

Download or read book Life of Sitting Bull written by Johnson W. Fletcher and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the Indian war of 1890-91. A graphic account of the life of the great medcine man and chief Sitting Bull; his tragic death, story of the Sioux nation, their manners and customs, ghost dance ... also a very complete history of the Sanguinar.

Book The Sitting Bull Fraud

Download or read book The Sitting Bull Fraud written by and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Standoff at Standing Rock

Download or read book Standoff at Standing Rock written by Patricia Calvert and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parallel biographies of Sioux leader Sitting Bull and Indian Agent James McLaughlin show how the representatives of their two nations came into conflict as their cultures clashed.

Book Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior

Download or read book Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior written by United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sitting Bull

Download or read book Sitting Bull written by Ann Weil and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography examines the life of Sitting Bull. The book includes biographies of other historical people and a family tree.

Book Sitting Bull

Download or read book Sitting Bull written by Grant MacEwan and published by Hurtig. This book was released on 1973 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For many years citizens of both Canada and United States were satisfied to think of the Sioux chief, Sitting Bull, as a treacherous savage, a menace to the white man's design for the development of the country. Newspaper reports made him the most notorious figure on the western frontier. After the Custer affair of 1876 - for which he was held responsible - his reputation was for massacre and murder. ... But why the Canadian interest in Sitting Bull? ... He became a symbol of the conflict between the hordes of greedy newcomers and the frustrated native defenders."--Desc. at www.popula.com.

Book Indian Wars under the Lead of Sitting Bull

Download or read book Indian Wars under the Lead of Sitting Bull written by James P. Boyd and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-12-10 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1875, the Great Sioux War of 1876–77, the last serious Sioux war erupted, when the Dakota gold rush penetrated the Black Hills. The U.S. Government decided to stop evicting trespassers from the Black Hills, and offered to buy the land from the Sioux. When they refused, the Government decided instead to take the land, and gave the Lakota until January 31, 1876 to return to reservations. They were led in the field by Crazy Horse and inspired by Sitting Bull's earlier vision of victory. Sitting Bull was a Hunkpapa Lakota leader who led his people during years of resistance to United States government policies. He was killed by Indian agency police on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation during an attempt to arrest him, at a time when authorities feared that he would join the Ghost Dance movement. Contents: War With the Pueblos The Shoshone Uprising Wars With the California Tribes A Yuma Massacre The Rogue River Wars War With the Cheyennes Navajo Hostilities The Affair of Mountain Meadow The Spokane Wars The Fierce Apaches and Arrapahoes The Piegan Punishment Modoc and Lava Bed Custer and the Sioux The Nez Perces Wars The Utes of White River Messiah Craze and Ghost Dance Mastering the Situation Sentiment Respecting the Uprising

Book Bureau of Indian Affairs

Download or read book Bureau of Indian Affairs written by Donald L. Fixico and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-01-16 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 19th-century trade agreements and treatments to 21st-century reparations, this volume tells the story of the federal agency that shapes and enforces U.S. policy toward Native Americans. Bureau of Indian Affairs tells the fascinating and important story of an agency that currently oversees U.S. policies affecting over 584 recognized tribes, over 326 federally reserved lands, and over 5 million Native American residents. Written by one of our foremost Native American scholars, this insider's view of the BIA looks at the policies and the personalities that shaped its history, and by extension, nearly two centuries of government-tribal relations. Coverage includes the agency's forerunners and founding, the years of relocation and outright war, the movement to encourage Indian urbanization and assimilation, and the civil rights era surge of Indian activism. A concluding chapter looks at the modern BIA and its role in everything from land allotments and Indian boarding schools to tribal self-government, mineral rights, and the rise of the Indian gaming industry.

Book Report of the Special Commission Appointed to Investigate the Affairs of the Red Cloud Indian Agency  July  1875

Download or read book Report of the Special Commission Appointed to Investigate the Affairs of the Red Cloud Indian Agency July 1875 written by United States. Commission to Investigate the Affairs of the Red Cloud Indian Agency and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: