Lakotas And The Black Hills : The Struggle for Sacred Ground (Penguin's Library of American Indian History) (Penguin Library of American Indian History) - Hardcover

Jeffrey Ostler

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670021954 ISBN 13: 9780670021956

Publisher: Viking, 2010

Synopsis

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. In THE LAKOTAS AND THE BLACK HILLS, Jeffrey Ostler moves with ease 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.

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HardCover and the Pub Date: July. 2010 Pages: 256 Publisher: Viking Adult of The story of the Lakota Sioux's Loss of Their withspiritual homelands and their remarkable Legal Battle to regain it 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 US Army. they refused to relinquish the land without a fight. most famously inging down Custer at Little Bighorn. In 1873. though. on the ink 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. In T...

About the Author:

Jeffrey Ostler is professor of history at the University of Oregon.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0670021954
• ISBN 13: 9780670021956
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256