Wars 1890 1891 Books
Books con argomento Wars 1890 1891
Surviving Wounded Knee
Grua David W.
edizioni Oxford University Press collana Oxford Univ Pr (Hardcover) , 2016
On December 29, 1890, the US Seventh Cavalry killed more than two hundred Lakotà Ghost Dancers -- including men, women, and children -- at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakotà. After the work of death ceased at Wounded Knee Creek, the work of memory commenced. For the US Army and some whites, Wounded Knee represented the...
Walker and the Ghost Dance
Walcott Derek
edizioni Farrar Straus & Giroux collana Farrar Straus & Giroux (Paperback) , 2002
Dazzling dramas on American themes from the Nobel laureateOn a cold winter's day on the Dakotà plains, Catherine Weldon receives a caller, Kicking Bear, bringing news of Indian rebellion. In the fort nearby, a tiny community splinters apart over how to react. In Ghost Dance, first performed in 1989, Walcott turns a...
Soldiering in the Shadow of Wounded Knee
Clark Hartford G.
Greene Jerome A. (EDT)
edizioni Arthur H Clark collana Arthur H Clark (Hardcover) , 2016
Eyewitness at Wounded Knee
Jensen Richard E.
Paul R. Eli
Carter John E. M.D.
Richardson Heather Cox (INT)
edizioni Bison Books collana Bison Books (Paperback) , 2011
On a wintry day in December 1890, near a creek named Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, the Seventh Cavalry of the U.S. Army opened fire on an encampment of Sioux Indians. This assault claimed more than 250 lives, including those of many Indian women and children. The tragedy at Wounded Knee...
In the Shadow of Wounded Knee
Disilvestro Roger L.
edizioni St Martins Pr collana St Martins Pr (Hardcover) , 2005
The story of the last deaths in the American Indian wars and their far-reaching ramificationsThe massacre of at least 150 Indians by the U.S. Army along Wounded Knee Creek in the Lakotà reservation on December 29, 1890 generally is considered the closing salvo in America's Indian Wars. But as Roger L. Di Silvestro...