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In the spirit of Crazy Horse

Title: In the spirit of Crazy Horse / Peter Matthiessen.
Author: Matthiessen, Peter.
Publication: New York : Viking Press, 1983.

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Description

xli, 628 pages : maps; 25 cm

Summary

An investigative account of the fatal shootout between FBI agents and American Indians in 1975.
On a hot June morning in 1975, a desperate shoot-out between FBI agents and Native Americans near Wounded Knee, South Dakota, left an Indian and two federal agents dead. Four members of the American Indian Movement were indicted on murder charges, and one, Leonard Peltier, was convicted and is now serving consecutive life sentences in a federal penitentiary. Behind this violent chain of events lie issues of great complexity and profound historical resonance, brilliantly explicated by Peter Matthiessen in this controversial book. Kept off the shelves for eight years because of one of the most protracted and bitterly fought legal cases in publishing history, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse reveals the Lakota tribe's long struggle with the U.S. government, and makes clear why the traditional Indian concept of the earth is so important at a time when increasing populations are destroying the precious resources of our world.--From publisher description.

Subject

Note

Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Partial: The Oglala Lakota, 1835-1965 -- American Indian Movement -- To Wounded Knee, February-May 1973 -- New Indian Wars: AIM versus the FBI, 1972-75 -- Pine Ridge and Dick Wilson -- The shoot-out, June 26, 1975.

ISBN

0670397024
9780670397020

LCCN

82008466

OCLC

ocm08475580
8475580
SCSB-9483360

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library