The Lakota Sioux

by Rzeczkowski, Frank; Rosier, Paul C.

• ISBN13: 9781604138009
• ISBN10: 1604138009
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-05-01
• Publisher: Facts on File

Summary

The history of the Lakota people one of the best-known Native peoples in America is often understood solely through conflict. Legendary figures such as Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, as well as the clashes with the United States at Little Big Horn and Wounded Knee, have defined the Lakota Sioux for many. However, The Lakota Sioux presents a broader history, including the Lakota's evolving relationships with other Indian groups, Europeans, and Americans and their critical role in the 19th-century fur trade. This informative book documents the Lakota Sioux's ongoing struggle to remain a distinct people and culture in a rapidly changing world to at once be part of and yet remain separate from the United States and mainstream American society. Readers will learn about this people's history, its storied clashes with American military forces, and its place in today's society.

Author Biography

Frank Rzeczkowski is a visiting assistant professor of history at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. His research focuses on Northern Plains Indians during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is the author of the forthcoming For the Protection of Our People: Tribes, Indians, and Community on the Northern Plains, 1800-1925. Paul C. Rosier currently serves as associate professor of history at Villanova University. His latest book, Serving Their Country: American Indian Politics and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century (Harvard University Press), is winner of the 2010 Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 6
Being Lakota	p. 14
Origins and the Lakota Universe	p. 22
The Lakota Heyday	p. 36
Life Inside the Circle	p. 51
A World Transformed	p. 66
Finding a New Way	p. 82
Return to Wounded Knee	p. 95
The Lakota Today	p. 109
Chronology and Timeline	p. 118
Glossary	p. 123
Bibliography	p. 125
Further Resources	p. 129
Picture Credits	p. 132
Index	p. 133
About the Contributors	p. 139
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Excerpts

The history of the Lakota people—one of the best-known Native peoples in America—is often understood solely through conflict. Legendary figures such as Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, as well as the clashes with the United States at Little Big Horn and Wounded Knee, have defined the Lakota Sioux for many. However, The Lakota Sioux presents a broader history, including the Lakota's evolving relationships with other Indian groups, Europeans, and Americans and their critical role in the 19th-century fur trade. This informative book documents the Lakota Sioux's ongoing struggle to remain a distinct people and culture in a rapidly changing world—to at once be part of and yet remain separate from the United States and mainstream American society. Readers will learn about this people's history, its storied clashes with American military forces, and its place in today's society.