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Lakota America : a new history of indigenous power /

This account of the Lakota Indians traces their rich and often surprising history from the early sixteenth to the early twenty-first century. Pekka Hamalainen explores the Lakotas' roots as marginal hunter-gatherers and reveals how they reinvented themselves twice: first as a river people who d...

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Main Author: Hämäläinen, Pekka, 1967- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019]
Series:Lamar series in western history
Subjects and Genres:
1700-1899
Lakota Indians > History.
Lakota (Indiens) > Histoire.
Lakota Indians.
Indianer
Lakota
United States > History > 18th century.
United States > History > 19th century.
États-Unis > Histoire > 18e siècle.
États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
United States.
USA.
History.
Informational works.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Dark matter of history
  • A place in the world
  • Facing west
  • The imperial cauldron
  • The Lakota meridian
  • The call of the White Buffalo Calf Woman
  • Empires
  • War
  • Shapeshifters
  • Upside-down soldiers
  • Epilogue : The Lakota struggle for indigenous sovereignty.

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