A Pictographic History of the Oglala Sioux

A Pictographic History of the Oglala Sioux
Author: Amos Bad Heart Bull
Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 592
Release: 1967
Genre: History
ISBN:

Pictographs show all aspects of warfare, ceremonials, hunting and daily life of this major Plains Indian tribe during the 19th century. Includes extensive text about the artist and his work, also about Dakota history and historical art.

A Pictographic History of the Oglala Sioux

A Pictographic History of the Oglala Sioux
Author: Amos Bad Heart Bull
Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 592
Release: 1967
Genre: History
ISBN:

Pictographs show all aspects of warfare, ceremonials, hunting and daily life of this major Plains Indian tribe during the 19th century. Includes extensive text about the artist and his work, also about Dakota history and historical art.

The Oglala People, 1841-1879

The Oglala People, 1841-1879
Author: Catherine Price
Publisher:
Total Pages: 272
Release: 1996
Genre: History
ISBN:

In the late nineteenth century the U.S. government attempted to reshape Lakota (Sioux) society to accord with American ideals. This acculturation effort included attempts to modify or subvert traditional Lakota political customs and to replace traditional leadership with individuals more attuned to government desires. Catherine Price charts the political strategies employed by Oglala councilors as they struggled to preserve their political customs and autonomy. She examines Lakota concepts of leadership and decision-making authority, highlighting the fluid political relationship among the several forms of Oglala leadership, such as the itancan (symbolic fathers of bands, or tiyospaye). Over the years Oglala leaders had to deal not only with their internal political questions but also with their relations to other Lakota bands, particularly those who rejected a relationship with the United States. The shifting tribal relations and the network of conflicts and accommodations were largely impenetrable to U.S. agents, who were often frustrated by their inability to understand Lakota leadership or opinions. U.S. officials' despair over apparent intransigence or mercurial changes in attitude contributed as much to misunderstanding and conflict as did internal Lakota dissension and shifts in alliance. Examining events in this period from an Oglala standpoint significantly adds to our understanding of the actions taken by the Oglala and deepens our understanding of their relations with the United States, including such conflicts as the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

On the Rez

On the Rez
Author: Ian Frazier
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2001-05-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780312278595

Raw account of modern day Oglala Sioux who now live on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation.

The Oglala People, 1841-1879

The Oglala People, 1841-1879
Author: Catherine Price
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1998-08-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780803287587

In the late nineteenth century the U.S. government attempted to reshape Lakota (Sioux) society to accord with American ideals. Catherine Price charts the political strategies employed by Oglala councilors as they struggled to preserve their autonomy.

Crazy Horse

Crazy Horse
Author: Martin S. Goldman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 208
Release: 1996
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780531112588

A biography of the Sioux leader set against the history of the Indian wars, with a full account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

Welcome to the Oglala Nation

Welcome to the Oglala Nation
Author: Akim D. Reinhardt
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2015-09-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0803284349

Popular culture largely perceives the tragedy at Wounded Knee in 1890 as the end of Native American resistance in the West, and for many years historians viewed this event as the end of Indian history altogether. The Dawes Act of 1887 and the reservation system dramatically changed daily life and political dynamics, particularly for the Oglala Lakotas. As Akim D. Reinhardt demonstrates in this volume, however, the twentieth century continued to be politically dynamic. Even today, as life continues for the Oglalas on the Pine Ridge Reservation in southwestern South Dakota, politics remain an integral component of the Lakota past and future. Reinhardt charts the political history of the Oglala Lakota people from the fifteenth century to the present with this edited collection of primary documents, a historical narrative, and a contemporary bibliographic essay. Throughout the twentieth century, residents on Pine Ridge and other reservations confronted, resisted, and adapted to the continuing effects of U.S. colonialism. During the modern reservation era, reservation councils, grassroots and national political movements, courtroom victories and losses, and cultural battles have shaped indigenous populations. Both a documentary reader and a Lakota history, Welcome to the Oglala Nation is an indispensable volume on Lakota politics.

A Doctor Among the Oglala Sioux Tribe

A Doctor Among the Oglala Sioux Tribe
Author: Robert H. Ruby
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2010-05-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0803230060

In 1953 young surgeon Robert H. Ruby began work as the chief medical officer at the hospital on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He began writing almost daily to his sister, describing the Oglala Lakota people he served, his Bureau of Indian Affairs colleagues, and day-to-day life on the reservation. Ruby and his wife were active in the social life of the non-white community, which allowed Ruby, also a self-trained ethnographer, to write in detail about the Oglala Lakota people and their culture, covering topics such as religion, art, traditions, and values. His frank and personal depiction of conditions he encountered on the reservation examines poverty, alcoholism, the educational system, and employment conditions and opportunities. Ruby also wrote critically of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, describing the bureaucracy that made it difficult for him to do his job and kept his hospital permanently understaffed and undersupplied. These engaging letters provide a compelling memoir of life at Pine Ridge in the mid-1950s.

Lakota America

Lakota America
Author: Pekka Hamalainen
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 543
Release: 2019-10-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300215959

The first comprehensive history of the Lakota Indians and their profound role in shaping America's history Named One of the New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2019 - Named One of the 10 Best History Books of 2019 by Smithsonian Magazine - Winner of the MPIBA Reading the West Book Award for narrative nonfiction "Turned many of the stories I thought I knew about our nation inside out."--Cornelia Channing, Paris Review, Favorite Books of 2019 "My favorite non-fiction book of this year."--Tyler Cowen, Bloomberg Opinion "A briliant, bold, gripping history."--Simon Sebag Montefiore, London Evening Standard, Best Books of 2019 "All nations deserve to have their stories told with this degree of attentiveness"--Parul Sehgal, New York Times This first complete account of the Lakota Indians traces their rich and often surprising history from the early sixteenth to the early twenty-first century. Pekka Hämäläinen 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. The Lakotas are imprinted in American historical memory. Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull are iconic figures in the American imagination, but in this groundbreaking 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. Hämäläinen's deeply researched and engagingly written history places the Lakotas at the center of American history, and the results are revelatory.

Lakota Portraits

Lakota Portraits
Author: Joseph Agonito
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2011-08-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 0762768290

A moving, thoughtful, beautifully illustrated look at the lives of men and women who helped shape the history of the Lakota people and the American West Lakota Portraits weaves together vignettes of Lakotas, including both prominent and ordinary individuals, to tell the story of the Lakota people. It covers the sweep of Lakota history from earliest years, focusing on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Examining the question of who the Lakota people are, Joseph Agonito explores the days of nomadic freedom on the Great Plains, Lakota culture and religion, internal struggles, the coming of European settlers, conflicts generated by waves of miners and immigrants, clashes with white authorities, war with American soldiers, the loss of freedom, the countless challenges encountered in transitioning to the reservation, and life on and off the reservations. While numerous books tell the history of the Lakota people, Lakota Portraits tells their story through the colorful lives and experiences of various notable individuals who span that history. Each vignette tells a piece of the narrative—both grand and commonplace stories of men and women. Together, these stories paint a picture of a courageous, vibrant people, full of life and love for the Lakota nation and their homeland. Unlike other books on the Lakota, Lakota Portraits spends considerable time on the reservation years, well into the twentieth century, and the characters who helped shape the difficult and painful adjustments the Lakota people made to life on and off the agencies.