The story of the Lakota Sioux's loss of their spiritual homelands and their remarkable legal battle to regain itThe Lakota Indians counted among their number some of the most famous Native Americans, including Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. Their homeland was in the magnificent Black Hills in South Dakota, where they found plentiful game and held religious ceremonies at charged locations like Devil's Tower. Bullied by settlers and the U. S. Army, they refused to rel...

The first part of a sweeping two-volume history of the devastation brought to bear on Indian nations by U.S. expansionIn this book, the first part of a sweeping two-volume history, Jeffrey Ostler investigates how American democracy relied on Indian dispossession and the federally sanctioned use of force to remove or slaughter Indians in the way of U.S. expansion. He charts the losses that Indians suffered from relentless violence and upheaval and the attendant effe...

Issu des plus récentes études sur les Sioux des Plaines, cet ouvrage est à ce jour l'un des plus abouti sur cette tribu qui, presque à elle seule, synthétise sur son nom la résistance et la funeste destinée des Indiens d'Amérique du Nord.Jeffrey Ostler démontre - avec solides arguments à l'appui, témoignages irréfutables de toutes les parties et documents officiels - comment l'Histoire peut aspirer dans sa spirale, pour mieux le broyer, un peuple entier comme les Sioux lakotas, not...