Killing Custer: The Battle of the Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians - Hardcover

Stekler, Paul; Welch, James

 
9780393036572: Killing Custer: The Battle of the Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 039303657X ISBN 13: 9780393036572
Verlag: WW Norton & Co, 1994

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General George Custer's ill-fated attack on a huge encampment of Plains Indians on 25th June, 1876, has gone down as one of the most disastrouos defeats in American military history. Much less understood is how disastroous the encounter was for the "victors", the Sioux and the Cheyenne under the leadership of Sitting Bull. Within 15 years no American Indians resided outside reservations and their ancient culture lay in ruins. This text recreates the events from the Indian perspective, relating the pride and desperation of a people systematically stripped of their treaty rights, hounded from their ancestral hunting grounds and herded into wretched reservations. Their final showdown with thousands of warriors against Custer's small force was, therefore, not least a "last stand", a final celebration of their waning power and freedom.

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At the time of his death in 2003, James Welch was considered one of the most important authors of the American West. His books include Fool’s Crow and Winter in the Blood.

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Verlag
WW Norton & Co
Erscheinungsdatum
1994
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
039303657X
ISBN 13 
9780393036572
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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