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1 online resource (373 pages) |
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text file |
| Contents |
Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Foreword; Chapter 1: In the Moon of Popping Trees; Chapter 2: The Holy Road; Chapter 3: The Mormon Cow; Chapter 4: Growing Conflict; Chapter 5: Collision; Chapter 6: "God Damn a Potato!"; Chapter 7: Messiah; Chapter 8: Ghost Dance; Chapter 9: Panic in the North; Chapter 10: "Indians are Dancing in the Snow ... "; Chapter 11: Sitting Bull; Chapter 12: The Flight of Big Foot; Chapter 13: Wounded Knee; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover. |
| Summary |
The last significant clash of arms in the American Indian Wars took place on December 29, 1890, on the banks of Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. Of the 350 Teton Sioux Indians there, two-thirds were women and children. When the smoke cleared, 84 men and 62 women and children lay dead, their bodies scattered along a stretch of more than a mile where they had been trying to flee. Of some 500 soldiers and scouts, about 30 were dead-some, probably, from their own crossfire. Wounded Knee has excited contradictory accounts and heated emotions. To answer whether it was a battle or a massacre. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Wounded Knee Massacre, S.D., 1890.
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Lakota Indians -- History.
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Lakota Indians. |
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History. |
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Ghost dance.
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Ghost dance. |
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South Dakota. |
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Wounded Knee Massacre (South Dakota : 1890) |
| Chronological Term |
1890 |
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Smith, Rex Alan. Moon of Popping Trees. Lincoln : UNP - Nebraska, ©2014 9780803241237 |
| ISBN |
0803293801 |
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9780803293809 (electronic book) |
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