The Pine Ridge Reservation

The Pine Ridge Reservation
Title The Pine Ridge Reservation PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 76
Release 1909
Genre Indians of North America
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On the Rez

On the Rez
Title On the Rez PDF eBook
Author Ian Frazier
Publisher Macmillan
Pages 332
Release 2001-05-04
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780312278595

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Raw account of modern day Oglala Sioux who now live on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation.

Welcome to the Oglala Nation

Welcome to the Oglala Nation
Title Welcome to the Oglala Nation PDF eBook
Author Akim D. Reinhardt
Publisher U of Nebraska Press
Pages 307
Release 2015-09
Genre History
ISBN 0803284365

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Popular culture largely perceives the tragedy at Wounded Knee in 1890 as the end of Native American resistance in the West, and for many years historians viewed this event as the end of Indian history altogether. The Dawes Act of 1887 and the reservation system dramatically changed daily life and political dynamics, particularly for the Oglala Lakotas. As Akim D. Reinhardt demonstrates in this volume, however, the twentieth century continued to be politically dynamic. Even today, as life continues for the Oglalas on the Pine Ridge Reservation in southwestern South Dakota, politics remain an integral component of the Lakota past and future. Reinhardt charts the political history of the Oglala Lakota people from the fifteenth century to the present with this edited collection of primary documents, a historical narrative, and a contemporary bibliographic essay. Throughout the twentieth century, residents on Pine Ridge and other reservations confronted, resisted, and adapted to the continuing effects of U.S. colonialism. During the modern reservation era, reservation councils, grassroots and national political movements, courtroom victories and losses, and cultural battles have shaped indigenous populations. Both a documentary reader and a Lakota history, Welcome to the Oglala Nation is an indispensable volume on Lakota politics.

Ruling Pine Ridge

Ruling Pine Ridge
Title Ruling Pine Ridge PDF eBook
Author Akim D. Reinhardt
Publisher Plains Histories
Pages 276
Release 2009
Genre History
ISBN 9780896726567

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Incorporating previously overlooked materials, including tribal council records, oral histories, and reservation newspapers, Ruling Pine Ridge explores the political history of South Dakota’s Oglala Lakota reservation during the mid-twentieth century. Akim D. Reinhardt examines the reservation’s transition from the direct colonialism of the pre-1934 era to the indirect colonial policies of the controversial Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) and the advent of the tribal council governing system still in place today on Pine Ridge and on many other reservations. Reinhardt demonstrates how conflicting political values foregrounded by the new governing format led to an aggravation of social divisions on the reservation and eventually came to a head in 1973 with the occupation and siege of Wounded Knee. The siege is best understood, he claims, not as a political stunt of the American Indian Movement (AIM) but as a spontaneous, grassroots protest at least forty years in the making.

Good Friday on the Rez

Good Friday on the Rez
Title Good Friday on the Rez PDF eBook
Author David Hugh Bunnell
Publisher Macmillan + ORM
Pages 249
Release 2017-04-25
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1250112540

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Good Friday on the Rez follows the author on a one-day, 280-mile round-trip from his boyhood Nebraska hometown of Alliance to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, where he reconnects with his longtime friend and blood brother, Vernell White Thunder. In a compelling mix of personal memoir and recent American Indian history, David Hugh Bunnell debunks the prevalent myth that all is hopeless for these descendants of Crazy Horse, Red Cloud, and Sitting Bull and shows how the Lakota people have recovered their pride and dignity and why they will ultimately triumph. What makes this narrative special is Bunnell's own personal experience of close to forty years of friendships and connections on the Rez, as well as his firsthand exposure to some of the historic events. When he lived on Pine Ridge at the same time of the American Indian Movement's seventy-one-day siege at Wounded Knee in 1973, he met Russell Means and got a glimpse behind the barricades. Bunnell has also seen the more recent cultural resurgence firsthand, attending powwows and celebrations, and even getting into the business of raising a herd of bison. Substantive and raw, Good Friday on the Rez is for readers who care about the historical struggles and the ongoing plight of Native Americans, and in particular, that of the Lakota Sioux, who defeated the U.S. Army twice, and whose leaders have become recognized as among America's greatest historical figures. Good Friday on the Rez is a dramatic page-turner, an incredible true story that tracks the torment and miraculous resurrection of Native American pride, spirituality, and culture—how things got to be the way they are, where they are going, and why we should care.

Descendants of Wounded Knee

Descendants of Wounded Knee
Title Descendants of Wounded Knee PDF eBook
Author Alan Hafer
Publisher Johnson Books
Pages 324
Release 2015-04
Genre History
ISBN 9781555664619

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"One of the seven branches of the Lakota, the Oglala were members of the wealthiest and mightiest Native American nations. Led by giants such as Red Cloud and Crazy Horse, these are the people that brought America to the table and signed the Treaty of 1868 and destroyed Custer at the Little Big Horn eight years later. ... Descendants of Wounded Knee is an unvarnished account of life on the Pine Ridge. Told around the 1999 unsolved murder of Wally Black Elk and Ronnie Hard Heart, Descendants tells how the United States has sought the destruction of a people and a way of life that had existed for thousands of years"--Publisher's description.

After Wounded Knee

After Wounded Knee
Title After Wounded Knee PDF eBook
Author John Vance Lauderdale
Publisher MSU Press
Pages 208
Release 1996-04-30
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN

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Shocked by what he encountered, he wrote numerous letters to his closest family members detailing the events, aftermath, and daily life on the Reservation under military occupation. He also treated the wounded, both Cavalry soldiers and Lakota civilians.