Sitting Bull

by Yenne, Bill

• ISBN13: 9781594160929
• ISBN10: 1594160929
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-03-19
• Publisher: Westholme Pub Llc

Summary

Sitting Bull's name is still the best known of any American Indian leader, but his life and legacy have been shrouded with misinformation and half-truths. In Sitting Bull, Bill Yenne follows the history of this remarkable man from his headstrong youth and first contact with encroaching settlers, through his ascension as the spiritual and military leader of the Lakota, friendship with a Swiss-American widow from New York, negotiations with the U.S. military and government, to his death at the hands of the Indian police on the eve of Wounded Knee. In Sitting Bull, we find a man whose life spanned the destruction of his peoples' culture, and whose greatest legacy was to help ensure their survival in the face of an uncertain future. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Bill Yenne is author of many books, including Indian Wars: The Campaign for the American West, also available from Westholme Publishing.

Table of Contents

Note on Terms	p. xi
Prologue	p. xiii
Waniyetu Wowapi	p. 1
Wasichu Encroaching	p. 31
Collision	p. 67
The Fugitive	p. 107
The Celebrity	p. 167
Fade to Black	p. 261
Light Come Shining	p. 303
Blood, Spirit, And Bones	p. 319
Epilogue: Legacy	p. 349
Appendices	p. 355
Bibliography	p. 361
Index	p. 367
Acknowledgments	p. 379
About the Author	p. 381
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