Foreword |
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Preface |
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Introduction: How the West Was Lost |
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The Indian Peoples of the Plains |
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2 | (6) |
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The Conquest of the Plains |
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8 | (6) |
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The Reservations and the Era of Forced Acculturation |
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14 | (5) |
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Native Responses and the Search for Hope |
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19 | (2) |
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21 | (10) |
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31 | (6) |
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Horses, Guns, and Smallpox |
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37 | (19) |
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How the Blackfeet Got Horses, Guns, and Smallpox |
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41 | (6) |
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Saukamappee, Memories of War and Smallpox, 1787--1788 |
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43 | (4) |
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Howling Wolf: Trading Guns for Horses |
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47 | (3) |
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``I Bring Death'': The Kiowas Meet Smallpox |
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50 | (6) |
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51 | (5) |
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A Pawnee Vision of the Future |
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56 | (5) |
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Sharitarish, ``We Are Not Starving Yet,'' 1822 |
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57 | (4) |
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The Life and Death of Four Bears |
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61 | (10) |
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Four Bears's Buffalo Robe |
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64 | (2) |
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Four Bears Kills a Cheyenne Chief |
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66 | (1) |
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The Death Speech of Four Bears |
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66 | (5) |
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Four Bears, Speech to the Arikaras and Mandans, July 30, 1837 |
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68 | (3) |
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Counting Coups and Fighting for Survival |
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71 | (18) |
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Account of Three Coyotes's Expedition |
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72 | (4) |
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Four Dancers, Three Coyotes Leads a Skirmish |
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73 | (3) |
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Fighting for Crow Country |
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76 | (2) |
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Arapooish, Speech on Crow Country |
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77 | (1) |
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Two Leggings's Quest for Power |
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78 | (6) |
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Two Leggings, The Dream and Reality of a Raid |
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79 | (5) |
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84 | (1) |
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Pretty Shield, ``Like Talking to Winter-Winds'' |
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85 | (1) |
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``The Only Way Open to Us'' |
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85 | (4) |
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Plenty Coups, On Alliance with the United States |
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86 | (3) |
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The Agony and Anger of the Eastern Sioux |
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89 | (13) |
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Big Eagle's Account of the Great Sioux Uprising |
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90 | (6) |
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Jerome Big Eagle, A Sioux Story of the War, ca. 1894 |
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91 | (5) |
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The Complaints of Strike the Ree, Medicine Cow, and Passing Hail |
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96 | (6) |
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Strike the Ree, Medicine Cow, and Passing Hail, Speeches to the Special Joint Committee on the Condition of the Indian Tribes, 1865 |
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97 | (5) |
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Massacres North and South |
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102 | (9) |
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102 | (3) |
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Little Bear, The Sand Creek Massacre, 1864 |
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104 | (1) |
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The Massacre on the Marias (1870) |
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105 | (6) |
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Bear Head, Account of the Massacre on the Marias |
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108 | (3) |
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Talking to the Peace Commissioners: The Treaty of Medicine Lodge, 1867 |
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111 | (10) |
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``When We Settle Down We Grow Pale and Die.'' |
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113 | (2) |
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Satanta, Speech at the Treaty of Medicine Lodge |
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114 | (1) |
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``I Want to Live and Die as I Was Brought Up.'' |
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115 | (1) |
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Ten Bears, Speech at the Treaty of Medicine Lodge |
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116 | (1) |
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``Teach Us the Road to Travel.'' |
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116 | (5) |
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Satank, Speech at the Treaty of Medicine Lodge |
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117 | (4) |
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The Slaughter of the Buffalo |
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121 | (12) |
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125 | (1) |
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Luther Standing Bear, ``The Plains Were Covered with Dead Bison.'' |
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125 | (1) |
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The End of the Buffalo Road |
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126 | (2) |
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Carl Sweezy, On Taking ``the New Road'' |
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127 | (1) |
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``War Between the Buffalo and the White Men'' |
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128 | (2) |
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Old Lady Horse, The Last Buffalo Herd |
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129 | (1) |
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``They Stared at the Plains, as though Dreaming.'' |
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130 | (3) |
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Pretty Shield, When the Buffalo Went Away |
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130 | (3) |
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The Battle on the Greasy Grass, 1876 |
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133 | (17) |
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Sioux Signs and Arikara Premonitions |
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135 | (2) |
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Red Star, Reading the Sioux Signs |
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136 | (1) |
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137 | (3) |
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Wooden Leg, A Cheyenne Account of the Battle |
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137 | (3) |
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Red Horse: Pictorial Record of the Battle |
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140 | (4) |
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``The Soldiers Were All Rubbed Out.'' |
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144 | (2) |
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Iron Hawk, Killing Custer's Men |
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144 | (2) |
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``The Women and Children Cried.'' |
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146 | (4) |
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Mrs. Spotted Horn Bull, A View from the Village |
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146 | (4) |
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150 | (18) |
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``We Are Melting Like Snow on the Hillside.'' |
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153 | (2) |
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Red Cloud, Speech to the Secretary of the Interior, 1870 |
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154 | (1) |
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155 | (1) |
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Buffalo Bird Woman, Recalling the Old Days |
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156 | (1) |
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``I Just Listened, Said Nothing, and Did Nothing.'' |
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156 | (3) |
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Wooden Leg, Serving as Judge |
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157 | (2) |
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159 | (9) |
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Carl Sweezy, Learning the White Man's Ways |
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160 | (8) |
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Attending the White Man's Schools |
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168 | (14) |
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171 | (7) |
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Luther Standing Bear, Life at Boarding School, 1879 |
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172 | (6) |
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178 | (4) |
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The Life and Death of Sitting Bull |
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182 | (14) |
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Scenes from a Warrior's Life |
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183 | (4) |
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Sitting Bull's Surrender Song |
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187 | (1) |
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``It Is Your Own Doing That I Am Here.'' |
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187 | (4) |
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Sitting Bull, Report to the Senate Committee, 1883 |
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189 | (2) |
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``Lieut. Bullhead Fired into Sitting Bull.'' |
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191 | (5) |
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Lone Man, The Death of Sitting Bull, 1890 |
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191 | (5) |
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196 | (22) |
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197 | (2) |
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Wovoka, Message to the Cheyennes and the Arapahos, ca. 1890 |
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198 | (1) |
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``Something Terrible Happened.'' |
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199 | (6) |
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Black Elk, Massacre at Wounded Knee, 1890 |
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200 | (5) |
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205 | (4) |
APPENDICES |
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Chronology of How the West Was Lost |
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209 | (2) |
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Question for Consideration |
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211 | (2) |
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213 | (5) |
Index |
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