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Lost Bird of Wounded Knee : spirit of the Lakota

Lost Bird of Wounded Knee : spirit of the Lakota

Flood, Reneé S., author.
Book 1995

In December 1890 the U.S. Seventh Cavalry massacred a band of Lakota men, women, and children at Wounded Knee, South Dakota. Miraculously, after a four-day blizzard, an infant was found alive under the frozen body of her dead mother. The dashing brigadier general (and future Assistant Attorney General of the United States) Leonard W. Colby kidnapped and then adopted the baby girl named Lost Bird (1890-1920) as a "living curio," and exploited her...

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Dakota youth Biography
Dakota youth Cultural assimilation
Dakota youth Ethnic identity
Lost Bird, -1920
Wounded Knee Massacre, S.D., 1890
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ISBN:
9780684195124
0684195127
Description:
384 pages 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-376) and index
Contents:
The Massacre at Wounded Knee
The Lost Bird
A Trophy of War
The Suffrage Mother
The Nebraska Frontier
The Lion of the Party
Kicking Bearʼs Prayer
The Heart Wound
Back Alleys
Scandal
Whites Only
Cuba Libre!
The Trip Abroad
The Missing Bond
"My Heartʼs Blood"
Boarding School
"Chi"
"No One Need Ever Know"
The Brideʼs Gift
The Nation of the Lakotah
Movies and Militants
The Barbary Coast
The Voice of the Spirit
A Lonely Grave
LCCN:
95007652
Control Number:
56159
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