The Politics of Hallowed Ground

by Gonzalez, Mario; Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth

• ISBN13: 9780252066696
• ISBN10: 0252066693
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr

Summary

The powerful story of the ongoing struggle of indigenous Americans in 20th-century United States and of its shift in focus from traditional battlefield and massacre sites to federal courtrooms and the halls of Congress. Mario Gonzalez has served as attorney for the Sioux Nation and Elizabeth Cook-Lynn is a Native American writer. Together their two voices will draw the reader into the continuing struggle of the Sioux people to achieve justice.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Introduction	1	(12)
Diaries and Chronicles
Introduction to Diaries and Chronicles	13	(10)
The Dilemma of Ethical Systems and Legal Ideas (May 5, 1989-October 30, 1990)	23	(56)
Word Searchers and Big Foot Riders (May 5, 1990-April 24, 1991)	79	(42)
Wocowoyake (True Stories) (April 30, 1991-October 12, 1991)	121	(72)
The Imagined Sense and the Community as Tribal Nation (October 13, 1991-April 24, 1992)	193	(177)
Epilogue	231	(4)
Appendixes
Introduction to the Appendixes	235	(2)
A. Other Readings and Dates of Significance	237	(9)
B. Brown Hat's Vision	246	(2)
C. Written Testimony of Mario Gonzalez from the September 25, 1990, Senate Hearing	248	(9)
D. The Forced Reduction of the Great Sioux Reservation	257	(35)
E. Chronology of Events Leading Up to the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre	292	(4)
F. The Wounded Knee Death List	296	(20)
G. List of Claims Paid under the Sioux Depredations Act	316	(15)
H. Chronology of Historical/Legal Events on Sioux Land Claims	331	(27)
I. A Resolution Expressing the Federal Government's Deep Regret for the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre	358	(2)
J. A Bill to Establish a Wounded Knee National Tribal Park	360	(10)
Notes	370	(43)
Sources	413	(4)
Index	417