Research Catalog

Title

Murdering Indians : a documentary history of the 1897 killings that inspired Louise Erdrich's the Plague of Doves / Peter G. Beidler.

Author

Beidler, Peter G.

Publication

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2014]

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Additional Authors

Erdrich, Louise.

Description

x, 246 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"In 1897 a family of six was murdered in rural North Dakota. Several Dakota Indians from Standing Rock reservation were arrested, tried, pronounced guilty, and sentenced to hanged. This work gathers together many documents, including the transcript of the trial, along with the author's commentary, telling a disturbing tale of racism and revenge in the pioneer West"--

Subject

• Spicer family
• 1800-1899
• Dakota Indians > Standing Rock Indian Reservation (N.D. and S.D.) > History > 19th century
• Dakota Indians > Standing Rock Indian Reservation (N.D. and S.D.) > Social conditions
• Dakota Indians > Legal status, laws, etc. > Standing Rock Indian Reservation (N.D. and S.D.)
• Homicide > North Dakota > History > 19th century
• Frontier and pioneer life > North Dakota > History > 19th century
• Frontier and pioneer life > North Dakota > 19th century
• Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of North & South Dakota > Trials, litigation, etc
• Standing Rock Indian Reservation (N.D. and S.D.) > History > 19th century
• Standing Rock Indian Reservation (N.D. and S.D.) > Trials, litigation, etc

Genre/Form

• History
• Trials, litigation, etc.

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface: Six Murders, Then Three More -- Despair -- Murder -- Whiskey -- Confessions -- Trial -- Reversal -- Lynching -- Recollections -- Healing -- Epilogue

ISBN

• 9780786475643 (softcover : alk. paper)
• 0786475641 (softcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2013036368

OCLC

• 858610768
• SCSB-11972310

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library