Lakota America : a new history of indigenous power
Bibliographie
- Auteurs : Hämäläinen Pekka J. (1967-....) ;
- ISBN : 978-0-300-21595-3, 978-0-300-25525-6
- Sujets : Dakota (Indiens), Indiens d'Amérique, United States -- History -- 18th centuryUnited States
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 vol. (IX-530 p.), : Ill., cartes, jaquette ill. en coul., 25 cm
- Pays de publication : États-Unis, Royaume-Uni
- Collection (notice d'ensemble) : The Lamar series in western history
Notes
Notes bibliogr. p. 399-505. Index
Résumé
Présentation de l'éditeur : 'This 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. Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull are iconic figures in the American imagination, but in this 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.'