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Our Hearts Fell to the Ground: Plains Indian Views of How the West Was Lost (Bedford Series in History and Culture)
Our Hearts Fell to the Ground Plains Indian Views of How the West Was Lost - Bedford Series in History and Culture Author:Colin G. Calloway This unique anthology chronicles the Plains Indians' struggle to maintain their traditional way of life in the changing world of the nineteenth century. Its rich variety of 34 primary sources - including narratives, myths, speeches, and transcribed oral histories - gives students the rare opportunity to view the transformation of the West fr... more »om Native American perspective.
Calloway's comprehensive introduction offers crucial information on western expansion, territorial struggles among Indian tribes, the slaughter of the buffalo, and forced assimilation through the reservation system. More than 30 pieces of Plains Indian art are included, along with maps, headnotes, questions for consideration, a bibliography, a chronology, and an index.
A Sioux archive --
Horses, guns, and smallpox --
The life and death of Four Bears --
Counting coups and fighting for survival in Crow country --
Massacres North and South --
Talking to the Peace Commissioners: the Treaty of Medicine Lodge, 1867 --
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This wonderful book was required reading in my Penn State Native Cultures of NA class. Its a very moving, sad and yet soulful book. I highly recommend.