Gary Clayton Anderson

Little Crow

Spokesman for the Sioux

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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 avo… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-87351-679-2
EAN: 9780873516792
Produktnummer: 22135706
Verlag: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Seitenangabe: 259 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 3'511 KB
Auflage: 1. Auflage

Über den Autor

Gary Clayton Anderson is professor of history at the University of Oklahoma, author of Kinsmen of Another Kind: Dakota-White Relations in the Upper Mississippi Valley, 1650-1862, and co-editor with Alan R. Woolworth of Through Dakota Eyes: Narrative Accounts of the Minnesota Indian War of 1862.