American Carnage: Wounded Knee, 1890

American Carnage: Wounded Knee, 1890

American Carnage: Wounded Knee, 1890

American Carnage: Wounded Knee, 1890

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Overview


American Carnage—the first comprehensive account of Wounded Knee to appear in more than fifty years—explores the complex events preceding the tragedy, the killings, and their troubled legacy.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780806144481
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Publication date: 04/10/2014
Pages: 618
Product dimensions: 6.40(w) x 9.40(h) x 1.70(d)

About the Author

Jerome A. Greene is retired as Research Historian for the National Park Service. He is the author of numerous books, including Stricken Field: The Little Bighorn since 1876, Battles and Skirmishes of the Great Sioux War, 1876-1877: The Military View; Lakota and Cheyenne: Indian Views of the Great Sioux War, 1876-1877; and Morning Star Dawn: The Powder River Expedition and the Northern Cheyennes, 1876, all published by the University of Oklahoma Press.

Thomas Powers is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist. His most recent book is The Killing of Crazy Horse.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations ix

Foreword Thomas Powers xi

Preface xiii

Prologue 3

1 Wild Indians 9

2 New World 23

3 Broken Faith 37

4 Trauma 55

5 Seeking to Endure 65

6 Perception 83

7 Deployment 127

8 Stronghold 149

9 Grand River 167

10 Pursuit 191

11 Bloodbath 215

12 Place of the Big Killings 271

13 Direct Corollaries 289

14 Close Out 307

15 Aftermath 339

16 Survivors 363

Appendix A Treaty with the Sioux-Brulé, Oglala, Miniconjou, Yankronai, Hunkpapa, Blackfeet, Cuthead, Two Kettle, Sans Arcs, and Santee-and Arapaho, [April 29,] 1868 [Ratified February 16,1869] 381

Appendix B Ghost Dance Leaders Recommended for Arrest and Confinement 390

Appendix C Standing Rock Police Who Arrested Sitting Bull 392

Appendix D U.S. Army Casualties, Sioux Campaign, 1890 394

Appendix E U.S. Army Estimate of Lakota Casualties at Wounded Knee 399

Appendix F Lakota Casualties 402

Appendix G Medals of Honor for the Pine Ridge Campaign, 1890-91 417

Appendix H General Miles's Congratulatory Message to His Troops at the Conclusion of the Sioux Campaign 419

Appendix I List of Wounded Knee Survivors as of May 1941, Compiled by James Pipe On Head 423

Notes 425

Bibliography 535

Index 575

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