List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Sitting Bull -- 2. James Morrow Walsh -- 3. The Sitting Bull Commission -- 4. Fall and Rise -- 5. Creeping Uncertainty -- 6. Indecision -- 7. Jean Louis -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
The Last Sovereigns is the story of how Sitting Bull resisted the white man's ways as a last best hope for the survival of an indigenous way of life-a nomadic life based on the buffalo-that was sacred to him and to his people
