A lavishly illustrated adaptation for children of Brown's meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century.
Record details
ISBN:0805093648 (hc)
ISBN:9780805093643 (hc)
ISBN:9781250050670 (softcover) :
Physical Description:print xvi, 208 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Publisher:New York : Henry Holt and Company, c2011.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction -- Oceti Sakowin: the great Sioux nation -- Who are the Sioux? -- War begins in Minnesota -- The Santees lose their homeland -- War comes to the Powder River -- Red Cloud's war -- The Fetterman massacre -- A treaty is signed -- Breaking the treaty of Fort Laramie -- Victory at Little Bighorn -- The death of Crazy Horse -- Sitting Bull returns home -- The death of Sitting Bull -- The massacre at Wounded Knee -- Bittersweet victory.