The Last Sovereigns: Sitting Bull and the Resistance of the Free Lakotas PDF

by : Robert M. Utley

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The Last Sovereigns: Sitting Bull and the Resistance of the Free Lakotas

Read Online and Download The Last Sovereigns: Sitting Bull and the Resistance of the Free Lakotas. 2021 Spur Award Winner for Best Historical Nonfiction from the Western Writers of America True West Magazine's 2020 Best Author and Historical Nonfiction Book of the YearThe Last Sovereigns is the story of how Sioux chief Sitting Bull resisted the white man?s ways as a last best hope for the survival of an indigenous way of life on the Great Plains?a nomadic life based on buffalo and indigenous plants scattered across the Sioux?s historical territories that were sacred to him and his people. Robert M. Utley explores the final four years of Sitting Bull?s life of freedom, from 1877 to 1881. To escape American vengeance for his assumed role in the annihilation of Gen. George Armstrong Custer?s command at the Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull led his Hunkpapa following into Canada. There he and his people interacted with the North-West Mounted Police, in particular Maj. James M. Walsh. The Mounties welcomed the Lakota and permitted them to remain if they promised to abide by the laws and .

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