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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)

Colin G. Calloway

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Description: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 from 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 --The slaughter of the buffalo --The battle of the Greasy Grass, 1876 --The end of freedom --Going home --Attending the white man's schools --Killing the dreamWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Our Hearts Fell to the Ground: Plains Indian Views of How the West Was Lost (Bedford Series in History and Culture). To get started finding Our Hearts Fell to the Ground: Plains Indian Views of How the West Was Lost (Bedford Series in History and Culture), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: 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 from 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 --The slaughter of the buffalo --The battle of the Greasy Grass, 1876 --The end of freedom --Going home --Attending the white man's schools --Killing the dreamWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Our Hearts Fell to the Ground: Plains Indian Views of How the West Was Lost (Bedford Series in History and Culture). To get started finding Our Hearts Fell to the Ground: Plains Indian Views of How the West Was Lost (Bedford Series in History and Culture), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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