Red Cloud and the Sioux ProblemFrom the mid-1860s until the end of organized resistance on the Great Plains, Red Cloud, the noted Oglala Sioux, epitomized for many the Indian problem. Centered on Red Cloud?s career, this is an admirably impartial, circumstantial, and rigorously documented study of the relations between the Sioux and the United States government during the years after the Civil War. |
Contents
ABBREVIATIONS IN FOOTNOTES | 2 |
THE PROBLEM | 3 |
THE RISE OF A LEADER | 15 |
A LASTING PEACEFort Laramie 1866 | 27 |
CARRINGTON Reaps the WHIRLWIND | 41 |
RED CLOUD SIGNS THE TREATY | 58 |
WHAT DOES THE TREATY MEAN? | 83 |
RED CLOUD VISITS THE GREAT WHITE FATHER | 96 |
THE ARMY TAKES OVER | 214 |
MISSOURI River Interlude | 247 |
THE STRUGGLE WITH MCGILLYCUDDY | 264 |
A TEMPORARY TRIUMPH | 286 |
THE SIOUX BILL | 306 |
GHOST DANCE AND WOUNDED Knee | 320 |
THE END OF THE ROAD | 335 |
APPENDIX | 341 |
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