Lakota America a new history of indigenous power /
This account of the Lakota Indians traces their rich and often surprising history from the early sixteenth to the early twenty-first century. Pekka Hämäläinen explores the Lakotas' roots as marginal hunter-gatherers and reveals how they reinvented themselves twice: first as a river people who d...
| Main Author: | Hämäläinen, Pekka, 1967- |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2019]
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| Physical Description: |
ix, 530 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
| Series: |
Lamar series in western history.
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| Summary: |
This account of the Lakota Indians traces their rich and often surprising history from the early sixteenth to the early twenty-first century. Pekka Hämäläinen explores the Lakotas' roots as marginal hunter-gatherers and reveals how they reinvented themselves twice: first as a river people who dominated the Missouri Valley, America's great commercial artery, and then--in what was America's first sweeping westward expansion--as a horse people who ruled supreme on the vast high plains. Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull are iconic figures in the American imagination, but in this book they emerge as something different: the architects of Lakota America, an expansive and enduring Indigenous regime that commanded human fates in the North American interior for generations. |
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| Item Description: |
Contains bibliographical references (pages 399-505) and index. Introduction : Dark matter of history -- A place in the world -- Facing west -- The imperial cauldron -- The Lakota meridian -- The call of the White Buffalo Calf Woman -- Empires -- War -- Shapeshifters -- Upside-down soldiers -- Epilogue : The Lakota struggle for indigenous sovereignty. This account of the Lakota Indians traces their rich and often surprising history from the early sixteenth to the early twenty-first century. Pekka Hämäläinen explores the Lakotas' roots as marginal hunter-gatherers and reveals how they reinvented themselves twice: first as a river people who dominated the Missouri Valley, America's great commercial artery, and then--in what was America's first sweeping westward expansion--as a horse people who ruled supreme on the vast high plains. Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull are iconic figures in the American imagination, but in this book they emerge as something different: the architects of Lakota America, an expansive and enduring Indigenous regime that commanded human fates in the North American interior for generations. FLC Reed Leisure Collection. |
| Physical Description: |
ix, 530 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: |
Contains bibliographical references (pages 399-505) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780300215953 0300215959 9780300255256 030025525X |