the Battle of the Greasy Grass…

Book review:

Lakota America:

A New History of Indigenous Power

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019

530 pages

It’s just fabulously interesting to learn more and more about the lives, the cultures, and the civilizations of the American Indians who were in quite a number of catbird seats in the continental United States until well into the 19th century.

Don’t forget that the Battle of the Little Bighorn—“Custer’s Last Stand”—known to Indian survivors as the Battle of the Greasy Grass—played out on June 25, 1876, more than a decade after the Civil War, in the same year that Alexander Graham Bell patented his telephone.

The Lakota, one of three major groups of the Sioux Indians, were dominant in the high plains west of the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River. They became a culture on horseback, and they depended on the buffalo.

In Lakota America you’ll learn that the Lakota were not tyrants, and they were not masters of every moment and every cluster of people in their domain, but mostly they called the shots for a long time.

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Book review: The Comanche Empire

the other story of the American West…

by Pekka Hämäläinen

click here

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