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Author Matteoni, Norman E., author

Title Prairie man : the struggle between Sitting Bull and Indian Agent James McLaughlin / Norman E. Matteoni
Published Guilford, Connecticut : TwoDot, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 369 pages)
Contents Timeline of events -- Principals to the story -- Fort Yates, North Dakota -- The northern plains -- Minnesota River Valley Uprising -- Powder River War -- Papa Sapa -- The 1876 Yellowstone Campaign -- Soldiers falling upside down -- Reaction and retaliation -- In search of Indians -- Northern sanctuary -- The making of an outlier -- Surrender at Buford -- POW at Fort Randall -- On the reservation -- Chief on tour (Standing Rock Star) -- Obstructionist -- Bait and switch legislation -- Ghost Dance and disobedience -- White squaw -- The plot -- Arrest at Grand River -- The report -- Burial -- Afterword
Summary One week after the June 1876 Battle of the Little Big Horn, when news of the defeat of Custer and his 7th Cavalry troops reached the American public, Lakota Chief Sitting Bull became the most wanted hostile Indian in America. He had resisted intrusions into Lakota land for years, refused to sign treaties, and had called for a gathering of tribes at Little Big Horn. He epitomized resistance. But there are other battles than those of war, and the conflict between Sitting Bull and Indian Agent James McLaughlin was one of those battles. Theirs was a fight over the hearts and minds of the Lakota
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-362) and index
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Subject Sitting Bull, 1831-1890.
McLaughlin, James, 1842-1923.
SUBJECT McLaughlin, James, 1842-1923. fast (OCoLC)fst00034453
Sitting Bull, 1831-1890. fast (OCoLC)fst01733032
Subject Dakota Indians -- Government relations.
Dakota Indians -- Wars.
Dakota Indians -- Kings and rulers -- Biography
Indian agents -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
Dakota Indians -- Government relations.
Dakota Indians -- Kings and rulers.
Dakota Indians -- Wars.
Indian agents.
SUBJECT Standing Rock Indian Reservation (N.D. and S.D.) -- History -- 19th century
Subject United States -- Standing Rock Indian Reservation.
Genre/Form Biographies.
History.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021676997
ISBN 9781442244764
1442244763
Other Titles Struggle between Sitting Bull and Indian Agent James McLaughlin