Sister to the Sioux The Memoirs of Elaine Goodale Eastman, 1885-1891

Name: Sister to the Sioux The Memoirs of Elaine Goodale Eastman, 1885-1891
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ISBN: 9780803267527

ISBN-10: 0803267525

ISBN-13: 9780803267527

Edition: 2nd 2004

Authors: Elaine Goodale Eastman, Kay Graber, Theodore D. Sargent, Elaine Eastman

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In 1885 a genteel New England girl traveled to the western frontier to open a school on the Great Sioux Reservation. For six years, Elaine Goodale Eastman taught, hunted with, and lived among the Lakotas, who were experiencing profound changes as buffalo herds dwindled and they were forced to adjust to reservation life. Her informative and sometimes poignant recollections of those years tell much about the daily lives of the Lakotas and how they grappled with challenges to their way of life. Goodale Eastman witnessed the arrival and flowering of the Ghost Dance religion, visited with Sitting Bull shortly before his death, and in December 1890 was at Pine Ridge, where she and her future…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 5/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 184
Size: 5.24" wide x 7.91" long x 0.55" tall
Weight: 0.550