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The Resource Lakota America : a new history of indigenous power, Pekka Hämäläinen

Lakota America : a new history of indigenous power, Pekka Hämäläinen

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The first comprehensive history of the Lakota Indians and their profound role in shaping America's history. This first complete account of the Lakota Indians traces their rich and often surprising history from the early sixteenth to the early twenty-first century. Pekka Hamalainen explores the Lakotas' roots as marginal hunter-gatherers and reveals how they reinvented themselves twice: first as a river people who dominated the Missouri Valley, America's great commercial artery, and then--in what was America's first sweeping westward expansion--as a horse people who ruled supreme on the vast high plains. The Lakotas are imprinted in American historical memory. Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull are iconic figures in the American imagination, but in this groundbreaking book they emerge as something different: the architects of Lakota America, an expansive and enduring Indigenous regime that commanded human fates in the North American interior for generations. Hamalainen's deeply researched and engagingly written history places the Lakotas at the center of American history, and the results are revelatory
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
ix, 530 pages
Contents
  • Introduction: Dark matter of history
  • A place in the world
  • Facing west
  • The imperial cauldron
  • The Lakota meridian
  • The call of the White Buffalo Calf Woman
  • Empires
  • War
  • Shapeshifters
  • Upside-down soldiers
  • Epilogue: The Lakota struggle for indigenous sovereignty
Isbn
9780300215953
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Lakota America : a new history of indigenous power
Title
Lakota America
Title remainder
a new history of indigenous power
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Pekka Hämäläinen
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Author
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
The first comprehensive history of the Lakota Indians and their profound role in shaping America's history. This first complete account of the Lakota Indians traces their rich and often surprising history from the early sixteenth to the early twenty-first century. Pekka Hamalainen explores the Lakotas' roots as marginal hunter-gatherers and reveals how they reinvented themselves twice: first as a river people who dominated the Missouri Valley, America's great commercial artery, and then--in what was America's first sweeping westward expansion--as a horse people who ruled supreme on the vast high plains. The Lakotas are imprinted in American historical memory. Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull are iconic figures in the American imagination, but in this groundbreaking book they emerge as something different: the architects of Lakota America, an expansive and enduring Indigenous regime that commanded human fates in the North American interior for generations. Hamalainen's deeply researched and engagingly written history places the Lakotas at the center of American history, and the results are revelatory
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YDX
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1967-
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Hämäläinen, Pekka
Dewey number
978.004/975244
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
Index
index present
LC call number
E99.T34
LC item number
H35 2019
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
Series statement
The Lamar series in western history
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Lakota Indians
  • United States
  • United States
Label
Lakota America : a new history of indigenous power, Pekka Hämäläinen
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Publication
Bibliography note
Contains bibliographical references (pages 399-505) and index
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volume
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  • nc
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rdacarrier
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text
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  • txt
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rdacontent
Contents
Introduction: Dark matter of history -- A place in the world -- Facing west -- The imperial cauldron -- The Lakota meridian -- The call of the White Buffalo Calf Woman -- Empires -- War -- Shapeshifters -- Upside-down soldiers -- Epilogue: The Lakota struggle for indigenous sovereignty
Control code
on1089959340
Dimensions
25 cm.
Extent
ix, 530 pages
Isbn
9780300215953
Lccn
2018966994
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations, maps
System control number
(OCoLC)1089959340
Label
Lakota America : a new history of indigenous power, Pekka Hämäläinen
Publication
Bibliography note
Contains bibliographical references (pages 399-505) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Introduction: Dark matter of history -- A place in the world -- Facing west -- The imperial cauldron -- The Lakota meridian -- The call of the White Buffalo Calf Woman -- Empires -- War -- Shapeshifters -- Upside-down soldiers -- Epilogue: The Lakota struggle for indigenous sovereignty
Control code
on1089959340
Dimensions
25 cm.
Extent
ix, 530 pages
Isbn
9780300215953
Lccn
2018966994
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations, maps
System control number
(OCoLC)1089959340

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