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American Carnage
Wounded Knee, 1890
Norman, Oklahoma : University of Oklahoma Press, [2014]
Format: Book
Description: xviii, 599 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
"American Carnage--the first comprehensive account of Wounded Knee to appear in more than fifty years--explores the complex events preceding the tragedy, the killings, and their troubled legacy"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Wild Indians -- New World -- Broken faith -- Trauma -- Seeking to endure -- Perception -- Deployment -- Stronghold -- Grand River -- Pursuit -- Bloodbath -- Place of the big killings -- Direct corollaries -- Close out -- Aftermath -- Survivors -- Appendix A. Treaty with the Sioux-- Brulé, Oglala, Miniconjou, Yanktonai, Hunkpapa, Blackfeet, Cuthead, Two Kettle, Sans Arcs, and Santee -- and Arapaho, [April 29,] 1868 [ratified February 16, 1869] -- Appendix B. Ghost Dance leaders recommended for arrest and confinement -- Appendix C. Standing Rock police who arrested Sitting Bull -- Appendix D. U.S. Army casualties, Sioux Campaign, 1890 -- Appendix E. U.S. Army estimate of Lakota casualties at Wounded Knee -- Appendix F. Lakota casualties -- Appendix G. Medals of Honor for the Pine Ridge Campaign, 1890-91 -- Appendix H. General Miles's congratulatory message to his troops at the conclusion of the Sioux Campaign -- Appendix I. List of Wounded Knee survivors as of May 1941, compiled by James Pipe On Head.
ISBN:
9780806144481 (hardback)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.