Dee Brown

Saint Louis Herald journalist Sam Morrison, heading upriver on the Missouri in 1866, finds a story in Civil War hero Charles Tawley.

Begins powerfully with the Sioux triumph over General Custer at Little Big Horn and goes on to center around three powerful men. Charles Eastman is a young, Dartmouth-educated Sioux doctor. Sitting Bull is the proud Lakota chief who refuses to submit to U.S. government policies designed to strip his people of their identity, dignity and sacred land. Senator Henry Dawes is one of the men responsible for the government policy on Indian affairs. While...

Reports, diaries, letters and photographs combine to give an authentic account of the battle and the events leading up to it. Grades 6-9.

Chronicles the tragic saga of the Sioux nation from 1860 to the 1890 massacre through the experiences of its chiefs and warriors, allowing their voices to be heard about what befell their people.

Fictionalized account of the forced annexation and assimilation of Native Americans in the nineteenth century West.