Voices of Wounded Knee

by Coleman, William S. E.

• ISBN13: 9780803264229
• ISBN10: 0803264224
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-12-01
• Publisher: Bison Books

Summary

In Voices of Wounded Knee, William S. E. Coleman brings together for the first time all the available sources - Lakota, military, and civilian - on the massacre of 29 December 1890. He recreates the Ghost Dance in detail and shows how it related to the events leading up to the massacre. Using accounts of participants and observers, Coleman reconstructs the massacre moment by moment. He places contradictory accounts in direct juxtaposition, allowing the reader to decide who was telling the truth.William S. E. Coleman is a professor emeritus of theatre at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. He and his wife spent nearly thirty years gathering documents from collections in the United States and abroad to create this book.

Author Biography

William S. E. Coleman is a professor emeritus of theatre at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. He and his wife spent nearly thirty years gathering documents from collections in the United States and abroad to create this book.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. viii
Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xix
Chronology	p. xxi
Prologue to a Tragedy	p. 1
Broken Promises, Broken Treaties	p. 12
The Second Pilgrimage	p. 25
The Ghost Dance Sweeps across the Dakotas	p. 35
A Failure in Communications	p. 46
Standoff at Standing Rock	p. 67
Confrontation at Pine Ridge	p. 85
Rumors, Restive Troops, and a New Initiative	p. 103
In the Corridors of Power	p. 130
On and Off the Reservation	p. 154
A Scapegoat Is Selected	p. 176
Dawn on Grand River	p. 197
Aftermath and Repercussions	p. 225
Surrender	p. 242
The Death of a People's Dream	p. 279
On the Field of Honor	p. 311
Aftershocks	p. 342
Notes	p. 383
Bibliography	p. 417
Index	p. 423
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