Little Crow: Spokesman for the Sioux

Anderson, Gary Clayton

ISBN 10: 0873511964 / ISBN 13: 9780873511964

Published by Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1986

Seller Inventory # 0873511964-4-33988434

Synopsis:

Government officials and missionaries wanted all Sioux men to become self-sufficient farmers, wear pants, and cut their hair. The Indians, confronted by a land-hungry white population and a loss of hunting grounds, sought to exchange title to their homeland for annuities of cash and food, schools and teachers, and farms and agricultural knowledge. By 1862 the Sioux realized that their extensive kinship network and religion were in jeopardy and that the government would not fulfill its promises.

With their way of life endangered, the Sioux turned to Little Crow to lead them in a war for self-preservation, a war that Little Crow had tried to avoid during most of his adult life. Within a year, the Sioux had been evicted from Minnesota, Little Crow was dead, and a way of life had vanished. Through his life-his biography-the complex interrelationship of Indian and white can be studied and, in some measure, understood.

Synopsis: Looks at the life of the Dakota Indian chief and his difficulties with the U.S. federal government during the mid 1800s.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Little Crow: Spokesman for the Sioux
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Publication Date: 1986
Binding: paperback
Condition: Fair