Ebook: Lakota America: a new history of indigenous power
Author: Hämäläinen Pekka
- Tags: Indianer, Lakota, Lakota Indians, Lakota Indians--History, History, Lakota Indians -- History, United States -- History -- 18th century, United States -- History -- 19th century, United States, USA
- Series: Lamar series in western history
- Year: 2019
- Publisher: Yale University Press
- City: United States;USA
- Language: English
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This account of the Lakota Indians traces their rich and often surprising history from the early sixteenth to the early twenty-first century. Pekka Hamalainen 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.;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.
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