The Odyssey Of Chief Standing Buffalo And The Northern Sisseton Sioux

Author : Mark Diedrich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015045988402

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The Odyssey of Chief Standing Buffalo and the Northern Sisseton Sioux by Mark Diedrich Pdf

This is the first book-length biography of Standing Buffalo, the last great Sisseton chief. Although he was a strong proponent of maintaining peaceful relations with the whites, he found himself inextricably caught up in events which led up to and included the Dakota War of 1862. For the following nine years he wandered the upper great plains, a man without a country. He finally died a suicidal-warrior's death in a battle with the Gros Ventres in Montana. His son and band were given a reserve in Saskatchewan, Canada, where their descendents remain today.

Author : Roy Willard Meyer
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803282036

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History of the Santee Sioux by Roy Willard Meyer Pdf

Since its original publication by the University of Nebraska Press in 1967, History of the Santee Sioux has become known as the definitive work on its subject. Now, in a revised edition, Roy W. Meyer brings the story of the Santees up to date.

Author : David G. McCrady
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442609907

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Living with Strangers by David G. McCrady Pdf

In The Pension Fund Revolution, originally published nearly two decades ago under the title The Unseen Revolution, Drucker reports that institutional investors, especially pension funds, have become the controlling owners of America's large companies, the country's only capitalists. He maintains that the shift began in 1952 with the establishment of the first modern pension fund by General Motors. By 1960 it had become so obvious that a group of young men decided to found a stock-exchange firm catering exclusively to these new investors. Ten years later this firm (Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette) became the most successful, and one of the biggest, Wall Street firms. Drucker's argument, that through pension funds ownership of the means of production had become socialized without becoming nationalized, was unacceptable to the conventional wisdom of the country in the 1970s. Even less acceptable was the second theme of the book: the aging of America. Among the predictions made by Drucker in The Pension Fund Revolution are: that a major health care issue would be longevity; that pensions and social security would be central to American economy and society; that the retirement age would have to be extended; and that altogether American politics would increasingly be dominated by middle-class issues and the values of elderly people. While readers of the original edition found these conclusions hard to accept, Drucker's work has proven to be prescient. In the new epilogue, Drucker discusses how the increasing dominance of pension funds represents one of the most startling power shifts in economic history, and he examines their present-day Impact. The Pension Fund Revolution is now considered a classic text regarding the effects of pension fund ownership on the governance of the American corporation and on the structure of the American economy altogether. The reissuing of this book is more timely now than ever. It provides a wealth of information for sociologists, economists, and political theorists.

Author : Kingsley M. Bray
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806183749

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Crazy Horse by Kingsley M. Bray Pdf

Crazy Horse was as much feared by tribal foes as he was honored by allies. His war record was unmatched by any of his peers, and his rout of Custer at the Little Bighorn reverberates through history. Yet so much about him is unknown or steeped in legend. Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life corrects older, idealized accounts—and draws on a greater variety of sources than other recent biographies—to expose the real Crazy Horse: not the brash Sioux warrior we have come to expect but a modest, reflective man whose courage was anchored in Lakota piety. Kingsley M. Bray has plumbed interviews of Crazy Horse’s contemporaries and consulted modern Lakotas to fill in vital details of Crazy Horse’s inner and public life. Bray places Crazy Horse within the rich context of the nineteenth-century Lakota world. He reassesses the war chief’s achievements in numerous battles and retraces the tragic sequence of misunderstandings, betrayals, and misjudgments that led to his death. Bray also explores the private tragedies that marred Crazy Horse’s childhood and the network of relationships that shaped his adult life. To this day, Crazy Horse remains a compelling symbol of resistance for modern Lakotas. Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life is a singular achievement, scholarly and authoritative, offering a complete portrait of the man and a fuller understanding of his place in American Indian and United States history.

Author : James William Daschuk
Publisher : University of Regina Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780889772960

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Clearing the Plains by James William Daschuk Pdf

In arresting, but harrowing, prose, James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and, most disturbingly, Canadian politics--the politics of ethnocide--played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of aboriginal people in the realization of Sir John A. Macdonald's "National Dream." It was a dream that came at great expense: the present disparity in health and economic well-being between First Nations and non-Native populations, and the lingering racism and misunderstanding that permeates the national consciousness to this day. " Clearing the Plains is a tour de force that dismantles and destroys the view that Canada has a special claim to humanity in its treatment of indigenous peoples. Daschuk shows how infectious disease and state-supported starvation combined to create a creeping, relentless catastrophe that persists to the present day. The prose is gripping, the analysis is incisive, and the narrative is so chilling that it leaves its reader stunned and disturbed. For days after reading it, I was unable to shake a profound sense of sorrow. This is fearless, evidence-driven history at its finest." -Elizabeth A. Fenn, author of Pox Americana "Required reading for all Canadians." -Candace Savage, author of A Geography of Blood "Clearly written, deeply researched, and properly contextualized history...Essential reading for everyone interested in the history of indigenous North America." -J.R. McNeill, author of Mosquito Empires

Author : Paul N. Beck
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806147697

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Columns of Vengeance by Paul N. Beck Pdf

In summer 1862, Minnesotans found themselves fighting interconnected wars—the first against the rebellious Southern states, and the second an internal war against the Sioux. While the Civil War was more important to the future of the United States, the Dakota War of 1862 proved far more destructive to the people of Minnesota—both whites and American Indians. It led to U.S. military action against the Sioux, divided the Dakotas over whether to fight or not, and left hundreds of white settlers dead. In Columns of Vengeance, historian Paul N. Beck offers a reappraisal of the Punitive Expeditions of 1863 and 1864, the U.S. Army’s response to the Dakota War of 1862. Whereas previous accounts have approached the Punitive Expeditions as a military campaign of the Indian Wars, Beck argues that the expeditions were also an extension of the Civil War. The strategy and tactics reflected those of the war in the East, and Civil War operations directly affected planning and logistics in the West. Beck also examines the devastating impact the expeditions had on the various bands and tribes of the Sioux. Whites viewed the expeditions as punishment—“columns of vengeance” sent against those Dakotas who had started the war in 1862—yet the majority of the Sioux the army encountered had little or nothing to do with the earlier uprising in Minnesota. Rather than relying only on the official records of the commanding officers involved, Beck presents a much fuller picture of the conflict by consulting the letters, diaries, and personal accounts of the common soldiers who took part in the expeditions, as well as rare personal narratives from the Dakotas. Drawing on a wealth of firsthand accounts and linking the Punitive Expeditions of 1863 and 1864 to the overall Civil War experience, Columns of Vengeance offers fresh insight into an important chapter in the development of U.S. military operations against the Sioux.

Author : David Reed Miller
Publisher : Montana Historical Society
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Assiniboine Indians
ISBN : 9780975919651

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The History of the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes, 1800-2000 by David Reed Miller Pdf

Author : Sitting Bull
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015046483338

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Sitting Bull by Sitting Bull Pdf

Author : Barry T. Klein
Publisher : West Nyack, N.Y. : Todd Publications
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0915344335

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Reference Encyclopedia of the American Indian by Barry T. Klein Pdf

Lists the names, addresses, characteristics, and functions of associations, enterprises, museums, publications, educational facilities, and services related to American Indian affairs.

Author : Gontran Laviolette
Publisher : Winnipeg, Man. : DLM Publications
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Social Science
ISBN : WISC:89065709644

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The Dakota Sioux in Canada by Gontran Laviolette Pdf

Author : Mark Diedrich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015045988410

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Dakota Oratory by Mark Diedrich Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UOM:39015037309674

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Ojibway Oratory by Anonim Pdf

This volume is devoted to the speeches (and the stories behind them) of the Ojibway, or Chippewa, people, culled from almost two centuries of their history.

Author : John Van Balen
Publisher : Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015058149983

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Great Plains Indian Illustration Index by John Van Balen Pdf

Library catalog records often do not adequately describe the contents of books or of the illustrative materials they contain, and as a result, it is often difficult to locate drawings or photographs (and far more difficult to find specific ones). Equally troublesome to historians is finding material on individual Indians scattered through numerous books. This work remedies these twin problems as they relate to books about the Great Plains Indian tribes. The index has two uses: it guides students, researchers and general readers to photographs, drawings, maps and other illustrative materials that appear in selected books about Native Americans published within the last 75 years. And it guides researchers to more than 1,200 biographical references to individuals found in these books. Tribes covered include the Arapahoe, Cheyenne, Crow, Gros Ventre, Kiowa, Omaha, Pawnee, Sioux, and Winnebago, among many others.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1044 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : South Dakota
ISBN : UVA:X002007327

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South Dakota History by Anonim Pdf

Author : Len Fulton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 994 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Books
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022595982

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Small Press Record of Books in Print by Len Fulton Pdf