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"I am looking to the North for my life"--Sitting Bull, 1876-1881, Joseph Manzione

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"I am looking to the North for my life"--Sitting Bull, 1876-1881, Joseph Manzione

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 154-157) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

resource.governmentPublication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

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illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

"I am looking to the North for my life"--Sitting Bull, 1876-1881

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

21764046

Responsibility statement

Joseph Manzione

Series statement

University of Utah publications in the American West, v. 25

Summary

What happened to the Sioux after the Little Bighorn. Illustrates how two countries, the United States and Canada, struggled to control their potentially explosive common border

Table Of Contents

Peace is much more fatal to Indians than war : initial military operations in eastern Montana, 1876-1877 -- In another world, white men, but different from any I ever saw before : the Sioux seek asylum in the northwest Territories, winter 1877 -- A dangerous precedent : the Canadian Minister of the Interior visits Washington, D.C., summer 1877 -- You belong on the other side, this side belongs to us : the Terry Commission meets with the exiled Sioux, autumn 1877 -- These reports are wholly unfounded : rumors of invasion and war, winter and spring 1878 -- When there are no more buffalo or game, I will send my children to hunt and live on prairie mice : the politics of hunger, 1878-1880 -- The return of the Gall-Hearted Warriors : the Sioux surrender, 1880-1881

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