Our hearts fell to the ground : Plains Indian views of how the West was lost /

This revised edition of Colin Calloway's Our Hearts Fell to the Ground continues to offer a look into the Native American views of the changing West in the nineteenth century through a selection of primary accounts, speeches and writings. With a revised introduction and a number of new document...

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Main Author: Calloway, Colin G. (Colin Gordon), 1953- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Bedford/St. Martin's, Macmillan Learning, [2018]
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Bedford series in history and culture.
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Summary:This revised edition of Colin Calloway's Our Hearts Fell to the Ground continues to offer a look into the Native American views of the changing West in the nineteenth century through a selection of primary accounts, speeches and writings. With a revised introduction and a number of new documents, this second edition now includes new coverage of the Northern Cheyennes' bid for freedom in 1878, a testimony by a Ponca chief who won a landmark court case, an Indian teacher's thoughts on Indian schools and an old woman's memory of her experience as a teenage girl at the Wounded Knee massacre. The epilogue has been expanded and the bibliography updated.
Physical Description:xv, 216 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-202) and index.
ISBN:9781319088163
1319088163