Moon of Popping Trees

Name: Moon of Popping Trees
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ISBN: 9780803291201

ISBN-10: 0803291205

ISBN-13: 9780803291201

Edition: 1981

Authors: Rex Alan Smith, Rex Smith, Rex Alan Smith

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The last significant clash of arms in the American Indian Wars took place on December 29, 1890, on the banks of Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. Of the 350 Teton Sioux Indians there, two-thirds were women and children. When the smoke cleared, 84 men and 62 women and children lay dead, their bodies scattered along a stretch of more than a mile where they had been trying to flee. Of some 500 soldiers and scouts, about 30 were dead—some, probably, from their own crossfire. Wounded Knee has excited contradictory accounts and heated emotions. To answer whether it was a battle or a massacre, Rex Alan Smith goes further into the historical records and cultural traditions of the combatants than…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 1981
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 4/1/1981
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 219
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



Preface


Erratum


Foreword



In the Moon of Popping Trees



The Holy Road



Growing Conflict



Collision



""God Damn a Potato!""



Messiah



Ghost Dance (The Spreading of the Gospel)



Panic in the North



""Indians Are Dancing in the Snow ...""



Sitting Bull



The Flight of Big Foot



Wounded Knee


Epilogue


Bibliography


Index