Wounded Knee by Heather Cox Richardson

Author:Heather Cox Richardson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2010-04-08T04:00:00+00:00

Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa Sioux. Sitting Bull led Sioux resistance to the U.S. Army from the time of the Civil War until he surrendered in 1881. Settled on the Great Sioux Reservation in 1883, Sitting Bull refused to sign the agreement that ceded Sioux land to white settlers. He became a symbol of traditional resistance to American society. Denver Public Library, Western History Collection, D. F. Barry, B-119

Harvesting on the Oleson farm, Brookings, South Dakota. In the late 1870s, settlers began to pour into Dakota Territory, carving the prairies into fields.

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