About this ebook
On June 25, 1876, Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer led 210 soldiers into battle in Montana Territory. Within an hour, every man was dead - the most decisive Native victory in American history.
Fifteen years later, U.S. soldiers massacred more than 200 Lakota men, women, and children at Wounded Knee Creek. The people who had ruled the northern Great Plains were confined to reservations, their buffalo gone, their language forbidden.
Lakota Warrior: The Rise and Fall of the Sioux Empire tells the full story. From their 1600s origins through their transformation into the most formidable cavalry force in North America, you'll witness Red Cloud's War - the only conflict where the United States sued for peace after losing to an Indian nation - and stand on the ridgeline at Little Bighorn as Custer realizes too late what he faces.
But the Lakota won nearly every battle and still lost the war - not to military force, but to the systematic destruction of the buffalo. Between 1872 and 1883, hunters killed more than 10 million buffalo, leaving the Lakota a devastating choice: the reservation or starvation.
The story doesn't end with defeat. These pages also chronicle survival - through forced assimilation, boarding schools, and the long road to the 1973 Wounded Knee occupation and the ongoing fight for sovereignty.
Honest, thorough, and deeply human. Every American should know this history.
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