Red Cloud and the Sioux Problem

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U of Nebraska Press, Jan 1, 1965 - History - 375 pages
From 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

THE GOVERNMENT GIVES IN
113
WHITE RIVER
144
10 FIASCO IN WASHINGTON
171
FAILURE OF A COMMISSION
199
BIBLIOGRAPHY
350
INDEX
360
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A distinguished historian, James C. Olson is President Emeritus of the University of Missouri.

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