Native Americans performing ritual Ghost Dance. One standing woman is wearing a white dress, a special costume for the ritual dance, 1890. Photo by James Mooney, an ethnologist with US Dept. of ...
On a scorching June afternoon in 1876, the Lakota - along with their Cheyenne and Arapaho allies - defeated the U.S. Army at the Little Big Horn. A lot of folks said they - the Army - had it coming, ...
Anthropologists divide the Lakota Sioux into seven bands. One band is called the Brulé or the Sicangu, or the Burnt Thighs. In August of 1854, a village of the Brulé people, led by chief Conquering ...
A woman from He-Dog -- Invisible fathers -- Civilize them with a stick -- Drinking and fighting -- Aimlessness -- We AIM not to please -- Crying for a dream -- Cankpe Opi Wakpala -- The siege -- The ...
Introduction : making the promise -- White Thunder to Yellow Robe -- Chauncey Yellow Robe -- Life in South Dakota -- New York -- Jones Beach -- Later years ...