The Lakotas and the Black Hills
The Struggle for Sacred Ground

I bought this book at Devils Tower in northeastern Wyoming on a cross-country trip. What an intelligent, thorough, and heart-breaking account of the Lakota people and U.S. conduct--and misconduct--toward them. The book provides context and background for events many of us think we know about--such a......more

I was assigned this book in several of my American Indian studies classes when in college, and it's not hard at all to see why the professor preferred the book in her classes. Safe to say, it's also been one of the books that didn't get sold back at the end of the semester! It's a great piece of refe......more

Eye opening, a hard, well rounded look at the Indian conflict, which despite what most people probably think is far from over.......more

This book is about how the US took the Black Hills from the Lakota, and their battle to get it back (Spoiler Alert: They don't. In case you were wondering) The book is much more exciting in the first half, which talked about how the Lakota lived, and how the Black Hills came to be the sacred land of......more

As a native South Dakotan, I was very interested in this short, readable history of the Lakotas and the Black Hills. While I knew fragments of this history and had read some of the court rulings, I was not familiar with many of the Lakota sources (including the winter counts and oral histories) as w......more