Bibliograph

Voices of Wounded Knee, by William S.E. Coleman

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Voices of Wounded Knee, by William S.E. Coleman

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-421) and index

resource.governmentPublication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

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mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Voices of Wounded Knee

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

43096760

Responsibility statement

by William S.E. Coleman

Review

"In Voices of Wounded Knee, William S.E. Coleman brings together for the first time all of the available sources - Lakota, military, and civilian. He recreates the Ghost Dance in detail and shows how it related to the events leading up to the massacre. Using accounts of participants and observers, Coleman reconstructs the massacre moment by moment. He places contradictory accounts in direct juxtaposition, allowing the reader to decide who was telling the truth. His balanced treatment suggests that the massacre grew out of decades of broken treaties, cultural misunderstandings, power struggles between the Department of the Interior and the U.S. Army and erroneous and inflammatory reports by irresponsible members of the press."--Jacket

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