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The Lakotas and the Black Hills, the struggle for sacred ground, Jeffery Ostler

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The Lakotas and the Black Hills, the struggle for sacred ground, Jeffery Ostler

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-227) and index

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maps

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Lakotas and the Black Hills

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bibliography

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681497358

Responsibility statement

Jeffery Ostler

Series statement

The Penguin library of American Indian history

Sub title

the struggle for sacred ground

Summary

The Lakota Indians counted among their number some of the most famous Native Americans, including Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. Their homeland was in the magnificent Black Hills in South Dakota, where they found plentiful game and held religious ceremonies at charged locations like Devil's Tower. Bullied by settlers and the U.S. Army, they refused to relinquish the land without a fight, most famously bringing down Custer at Little Bighorn. In 1873, though, on the brink of starvation, the Lakotas surrendered the Hills. But the story does not end there. Over the next hundred years, the Lakotas waged a remarkable campaign to recover the Black Hills, this time using the weapons of the law. Ostler moves from battlefields to reservations to the Supreme Court, capturing the enduring spiritual strength that bore the Lakotas through the worst times and kept alive the dream of reclaiming their cherished homeland

Table Of Contents

Introduction : Mount Rushmore -- Part One : Paha Sapa -- Seasons -- Overlanders and rumors of gold -- The center of the earth -- The sword and the pen -- Part Two : The possibilities of history -- After the loss -- The claim -- The land -- Conclusion : next generations

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