Description: In this enthralling narrative, professor and award-winning author Jeffrey Ostler recounts the Lakota Sioux's loss of their spiritual homeland and their remarkable legal battle to regain it. Moving easily from battlefields to reservations to Supreme Court chambers, Ostler captures the strength that bore the Lakotas through the worst times and kept alive the dream of reclaiming their cherished lands.
Brief description:
Jeffrey Ostler is a professor of history at the University of Oregon. His book The Plains Sioux and US Colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee won the Caughey Western History Association Prize for the best book of 2004 in Western US History.
Review Quotes:
"Ostler is an elegant guide. This book deserves a wide leadership."
-- "Jake Page, author of In the Hands of the Great Spirit"