The Lakotas and the Black Hills: The Struggle for Sacred Ground

by Jeffrey Ostler

Book Overview

The story of the Lakota Sioux's loss of their spiritual homelands and their remarkable legal battle to regain it The Lakota Indians counted among their number some of the most famous Native Americans, including Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. Their homeland was in the magnificent Black Hills in South Dakota, where they found plentiful game and held religious ceremonies at charged locations like Devil's Tower. Bullied by settlers and the U. S. Army,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670021954
• ISBN13: 9780670021956
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Viking Books
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher