Moon of Popping Trees - Rex Alan Smith

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Title
Moon of Popping Trees
Author
Rex Alan Smith
format
Paperback / softback
Publisher
Bison Books
Language
English
UK Publication Date
19810425

The last significant clash of arms in the American Indian Wars took place on December 29, 1890, on the banks of Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. Of the 350 Teton Sioux Indians there, two-thirds were women and children. When the smoke cleared, 84 men and 62 women and children lay dead, their bodies scatteredalong a stretch of more than a mile where they had been trying to flee. Of some 500 soldiers and scouts, about 30 were dead-some, probably, from their own crossfire. Wounded Knee has excited contradictory accounts and heated emotions. To answer whether it was a battle or a massacre, Rex Alan Smith goes further into the historical records and cultural traditions of the combatants than anyone has gone before. His work results in what Alvin Josephy Jr., editor of American Heritage, calls "the most definitive and unbiased" account of all, Moon of Popping Trees.

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Type
BOOK
Keyword Index
Wounded Knee Massacre, S.D., 1890.|Teton Indians - History.|Ghost dance.
Country of Publication
Nevada
Number of Pages
219

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