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Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee
Paul Chaat Smith, Robert Allen Warrior / Hardcover / Published 1996
New Press; ISBN: 1565843169 Synopsis: "Drawing on a wealth of archival material, interviews, and the authors' own experiences of these events, Like a Hurricane offers a rare, unflinchingly honest assessment of the brief but brilliant season, beginning in the late 1960s, when American Indians seized national attention in a series of radical acts of resistance."

Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee
Paul Chaat Smith, Robert Allen Warrior / Paperback / Published 1997
New Press; ISBN: 1565844025 Synopsis: "Two Native American authors combine federal archival material and interviews with numerous insiders to describe the growth of the American Indian Movement, focusing on the occupation of Alcatraz, the 1972 storming of Washington's BIA office, and the seizure of Wounded Knee."

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Dee Brown / Paperback / Published 1991
Henry Holt (Paper); ISBN: 0805017305 Synopsis: "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, fully documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the 19th century. When it was first published in 1971, both reviewers and the reading public responded first with shock, then a deep sense of shame, calling it "shattering" (Washington Post), and "heartbreaking" (The New York Times). It went on to sell over a million copies in hardcover and four million copies in paperback, and was translated into 15 languages around the world."

Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Dee Brown, Amy Erlich / Paperback / Published 1993
Henry Holt (Paper); ISBN: 0805027009 Synopsis: "Dee Brown's bestselling adult book, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, opened the eyes of a generation to the Indian struggle to survive the white man's expansion. This young adult edition relates the profoundly disturbing story of the plunder of the great Indian nations."

Lakota Woman
Mary Crow Dog, Richard Erdoes / Paperback / Published 1994
Harperperennial Library; ISBN: 0060973897 Synopsis: "This is the powerful autobiography of Mary Brave Bird, who grew up in the misery of a South Dakota reservation. Rebelling against the violence and hopelessness of reservation life, she joined the tribal pride movement in an effort to bring about much-needed changes. Now a major movie from TNT. Photos."

Lakota Woman - Siege at Wounded Knee (1994)
ASIN: 6303359094, NTSC format, Number of tapes:1 Review: From Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide: All-Native American cast brings alive Mary Crow Dog's moving autobiography. Bedard is especially fine as the woman who went from an abused childhood through intra-tribal politics to become an eyewitness at the famed 1973 siege at Wounded Knee." Copyright© Leonard Maltin, 1998.

After Wounded Knee: Correspondence of Major and Surgeon John Vance Lauderdale While Serving With the Army Occupying the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
John Vance Lauderdale, Jerry Green (Editor) / Hardcover / Published 1995
Michigan State Univ Pr; ISBN: 0870134051 Review: Midwest Book Review "The Wounded Knee Massacre of December 29, 1890, known to the U. S. military historians as the last battle in "the Indian Wars," was in reality another tragic event in a larger pattern of conquest, destruction, killing, and broken promises that continues to characterize U. S. policies toward Native Americans. Arriving to take up his duties at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota only days after this encounter between the Seventh Cavalry and Lakota Civilians, in which more than 260 Lakota men, women, and children were killed, Army Surgeon John Vance Lauderdale wrote a series of extended letters to his wife describing what happened."

Trial of Leonard Peltier
Jim Messerschmidt / Paperback / Published 1983
South End Pr; ISBN: 089608163X (NAI/U.S. Government Relations) Recomendation: A must read! Do you know or remember a man named Leonard Peltier? This book tells the true story behind the incarceration of political prisoner, Leonard Peltier. See background, as well as, updated information at the following path: Leonard Peltier & AIM Information

A Boy Becomes a Man at Wounded Knee
Ted Wood, et al / Paperback / Published 1995
Walker and Company; ISBN: 0802774466 Synopsis: "Describes the events that led to the massacre of Lakota (Sioux) Indians at Wounded Knee in 1890 and the experiences of a young boy as he rides with his people to commemorate this event one hundred years later." (Recomended Reading level: Ages 9-12)

Chronicle of the Indian Wars: From Colonial Times to Wounded Knee
Alan Axelrod / Hardcover / Published 1993
Macmillan General Reference; ISBN: 0671846507 Synopsis: "From the movie screen to the printed page, Native American culture and history have earned a significant place in the country's imagination. Now, in a fast-paced and authoritative narrative sure to become a standard reference in the field, historian Alan Axelrod looks back at 400 years of a violent and tragic struggle as the Indians fought to protect their lands from white colonizers. Photos, line drawings and maps."

A Creek Called Wounded Knee (G K Hall Large Print Book Series (Cloth))
Douglas C. Jones / Cloth - Western Large Print Edition / Published 1997
G K Hall & Co; ISBN: 0783882319 Book Description: "It is December 1890 and the Lakota Sioux are closely watched as they live a seemingly docile life on reservations and Indian agencies. But some wont be subdued. Army troops are sent in to contain the hostiles. And Big Foot, called Peacemaker among the Sioux, struggles against old age and illness to bring Indian and white man together. Yet still, it is the beginning of the end in a portrayal of men soon to be caught in the ultimate test of their valor, as they ride, unknowing, to the Battle of Wounded Knee."

Eyewitness at Wounded Knee
Richard E. Jensen, R. Eli Paul (Contributor) / Hardcover /Published 1991
Univ of Nebraska Pr; ISBN: 080321409X

From Fort Laramie to Wounded Knee: In the West That Was
by Charles W. Allen, Richard E. Jensen (Editor) / Hardcover /Published 1997
Univ of Nebraska Pr; ISBN: 0803210450

Ghost Dancing the Law: The Wounded Knee Trials
John William Sayer / Hardcover /Published 1997
Harvard Univ Pr; ISBN: 0674354338

The Ghost-Dance Religion and Wounded Knee
James Mooney / Paperback /Published 1991
Dover Pubns; ISBN: 0486267598

Indian Lives: A Photographic Record from the Civil War to Wounded Knee
Ulrich W. Hiesinger, Joseph Medicine Crow / Hardcover /Published 1997
International Book Import Service, Inc.; ISBN: 379131422X Midwest Book Review: "Indian Lives: A Photographic Record from the Civil War to Wounded Knee presents a selection of powerful photographs of Native Americans, not as adjuncts to an historical discourse but as visually compelling images in their own right. Coinciding with the beginnings of photography in the field, the period covered here (1861-1890) witnessed the end of unhindered traditional life for most Native Americans. Contemporary cameras captured that life as it was in the process of being eradicated."

Lost Bird of Wounded Knee: Spirit of the Lakota
Renee Sansom Flood / Paperback / Published 1998
Da Capo Pr; ISBN: 0306808226 Synopsis: "This never-before-told story of a Lakota Indian child kidnapped from the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee and raised as a white child offers the stunning portrait of a young girl robbed of her roots and lost in an alien culture, and a powerful symbol of this nation's tragic relations with Native Americans."

Lost Bird of Wounded Knee: Spirit of the Lakota
Renee Sansom Flood / Hardcover / Published 1995
Scribner Book Company; ISBN: 0684195127 Review: From Booklist , June 1, 1995 "A heartrending biography of one of the few Native American survivors of the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890. Discovered amid a field of corpses, sheltered by the lifeless body of her slain mother, Lost Bird, an infant Lakota, emerged from the shameful slaughter miraculously unscathed. Adopted by General Leonard Wright Colby, a corrupt and unscrupulous army officer and attorney, and his wife, prominent suffrage leader, Clara B. Colby, Lost Bird was financially exploited and sexually abused by the general and patronized by the well-meaning but misguided Mrs. Colby. Rejected by and alienated from two cultures and traumatized by the nightmarish quality of her rootless childhood, Lost Bird went on to face one devastating misfortune after another during her brief and bitter adulthood. Utilizing a host of Lakota sources, Flood, a noted Native American historian, provides a haunting account of an authentic American tragedy." Margaret Flanagan Copyright© 1995, American Library Association. All rights reserved

Moon of Popping Trees
Rex Alan Smith / Paperback / Published 1981
Univ of Nebraska Pr; ISBN: 0803291205 Review: The author, Rex Alan Smith, Prodigy address NRJW09A , January 21, 1998 "In a 1976 Senate hearing on Wounded Knee reparations Alvin Josephy, Jr., then editor of American Heritage Magazine, described Moon of Popping Trees as "the most definitive and unbiased" work ever done on the history of Wounded Knee."

The Movement and the Sixties
Protest in America from Greensboro to Wounded Knee
Terry H. Anderson / Hardcover / Published 1995
Oxford University Press; ISBN: 0195074092 Synopsis: "Drawing on interviews and "underground" manuscripts, Anderson begins with the Greensboro sit-ins of 1960 and reveals how one event built upon another and exploded into a kaleidoscope of activism that defined a generation of young Americans. This book is a compelling and fascinating account of a defining era that remains a significant part of our lives today."

Song of Wovoka: A Novel
Earl Murray / Mass Market Paperback / Published 1993
Tor Books; ISBN: 0812513185 Synopsis: Twenty years after the time of Dances with Wolves, Father Mark Thomas finds life with the Cheyenne River Sioux and a beautiful woman named Fawn more compelling than his Jesuit training. But as Father Thomas's new life is beginning, the old life of the Sioux is about to end. Their last hope is Wovoka, a prophet who may be their savior...or may lead them to slaughter. Father Mark Thomas worries about the legitimacy of Wovoka, a self-professed savior of the Cheyenne."

Tunkashila: From the Birth of Turtle Island to the Blood of Wounded Knee
Gerald Hausman / Paperback / Published 1994
St. Martin's Press; ISBN: 0312113455 Review: The author, May 28, 1996 "The mythological history of the American Indian. "The epic story of American Indian mythology in one sweeping narrative, a book that gathers and recounts over fifty native myths as it tells in fairy-tale form the story of Native America. Edward However, in "The New York Times Book Review" called this collection, "...an eloquent tribute to the first great storytellers of America." N. Scott Momaday, the Pulitzer Prize winning Kiowa novelist called it, "...a book to be read slowly and with deep respect...it is like the wind one hears on the plains, steady, running, full of music. "Tunkashila" is really the summation of that experience, and the stories told in the book all came from tribal people in different parts of the country."

We Are a People in This World: The Lakota Sioux and the Massacre at Wounded Knee
Conger Beasley / Paperback / Published 1995
Univ of Arkansas Pr; ISBN: 1557283869 Reviews: Booknews, Inc. , March 1, 1996 "Beasley, an award-winning journalist, alternately recounts the events of the 1890 massacre of the Lakota Sioux at Wounded Knee, drawing on oral accounts of survivors, and his experience in the 1990 commemorative Big Foot Memorial Ride, in which people of all races participated."

Wounded Knee 1890: The End of the Plains Indian Wars
(Library of American Indian History)
Tom Streissguth, Thomas Streissguth / Hardcover / Published 1998
Facts on File, Inc.; ISBN: 0816036004 Synopsis: "Narrates the events leading up to the massacre which marked the end of a long succession of wars between whites and Indians, and concludes with a description of the battle itself."

Wounded Knee 1973 : A Personal Account
Stanley David Lyman, et al / Paperback / Published 1993
Univ of Nebraska Pr; ISBN: 0803279337 Synopsis: "Stanley Lyman, who was the Bureau of Indian Affairs superintendent at the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1973, gives an inside view of what happened when AIM (American Indian Movement) activists occupied the village of Wounded Knee. Photos. Map. Bibliography. Index."

Wounded Knee: The Death of a Dream (Spotlight on American History)
Laurie O'Neill / School & Library Binding / Published 1993
Millbrook Pr; ISBN: 1562942530 Reviews: From Horn Book "A brief, clear account, illustrated with reproductions and black-and-white photographs, of the Battle of Wounded Knee, during which Chief Big Foot and almost his entire band of Lakotas were slaughtered by the United States Cavalry. Information about key military figures and well-known Native-American leaders and the roles they played keep the human element at the forefront of this narrative." Bib., ind. -- Copyright © 1993 The Horn Book, Inc. All rights reserved.

Wounded Knee: The Death of a Dream (Spotlight on American History)
Laurie A. O'Neill, Laurie A. O'Niell / Paperback / Published 1994
Millbrook Pr Trade; ISBN: 1562947486 Synopsis: "An illustrated examination of the Wounded Knee massacre in South Dakota, in which the U.S. cavalry killed hundreds of Sioux, looks at the haunting 1890 event in terms of the long struggle between native Americans and settlers."

A Boy Becomes a Man at Wounded Knee
Ted Wood / Paperback / Published 1995
Walker and Company; ISBN: 0802774466 Synopsis: "A chronicle of the journey of eight-year-old Wanbli Numpa on the one-hundredth anniversary of the Wounded Knee massacre, based on his diary, retraces the gruelling journey that paid tribute to his ancestors and led him to manhood."

The Politics of Hallowed Ground
Wounded Knee and the Struggle for Indian Sovereignty
Mario Gonzalez, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn / Hardcover / Published 1999
Univ of Illinois Pr (Txt); ISBN: 0252023544 Synopsis: "The powerful story of the ongoing struggle of indigenous Americans in 20th-century United States and of its shift in focus from traditional battlefield and massacre sites to federal courtrooms and the halls of Congress. Mario Gonzalez has served as attorney for the Sioux Nation and Elizabeth Cook-Lynn is a Native American writer. Together their two voices will draw the reader into the continuing struggle of the Sioux people to achieve justice."

The Politics of Hallowed Ground
Wounded Knee and the Struggle for Indian Sovereignty
Mario Gonzalez, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn / Paperback / Published 1999
Univ of Illinois Pr (Trd); ISBN: 0252066693 Synopsis: "The powerful story of the ongoing struggle of indigenous Americans in 20th-century United States and of its shift in focus from traditional battlefield and massacre sites to federal courtrooms and the halls of Congress. Mario Gonzalez has served as attorney for the Sioux Nation and Elizabeth Cook-Lynn is a Native American writer. Together their two voices will draw the reader into the continuing struggle of the Sioux people to achieve justice."

Wounded Knee 1973 : A Personal Account Nt
Stanley David Lyman / Hardcover / Published 1991
Univ of Nebraska Pr; ISBN: 0803228899

Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Dee Brown, Amy Ehrlich / Turtleback / Published 1993
Demco Media; ISBN: 0606029982 Synopsis: "Dee Brown's bestselling adult book, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, opened the eyes of a generation to the Indian struggle to survive the white man's expansion. This young adult edition relates the profoundly disturbing story of the plunder of the great Indian nations."

Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
Dee Brown, Amy Ehrlich / Paperback / Published 1993
Henry Holt (Paper); ISBN: 0805027009 Synopsis: "Dee Brown's bestselling adult book, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, opened the eyes of a generation to the Indian struggle to survive the white man's expansion. This young adult edition relates the profoundly disturbing story of the plunder of the great Indian nations." Reviews

Wounded Knee : The Death of a Dream
Laurie A. O'Neill / School & Library Binding / Published 1993
Millbrook Pr; ISBN: 1562942530 (Recommended Reading level: Ages 9-12) Review: From Horn Book "A brief, clear account, illustrated with reproductions and black-and-white photographs, of the Battle of Wounded Knee, during which Chief Big Foot and almost his entire band of Lakotas were slaughtered by the United States Cavalry. Information about key military figures and well-known Native-American leaders and the roles they played keep the human element at the forefront of this narrative." Bib., ind. -- Copyright © 1993 The Horn Book, Inc. All rights reserved.

Wounded Knee : The Death of a Dream
Laurie A. O'Neill / Paperback / Published 1994
Millbrook Pr Trade; ISBN: 1562947486 Synopsis: "Examines the bloody confrontation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota in 1890 between U.S. Cavalry troops and the Sioux Indians."

Wounded Knee and the Ghost Dance Tragedy Memorial Edition
Jack Utter / Paperback / Published 1991
Natl Woodlands Pub Co; ISBN: 0962807516 Review: The publisher, National Woodlands Publishing Company, nwpc@traverse.com , June 16, 1996 "This brief, yet concise account of the events leading up to and including the infamous massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890 is now in its third printing. More than 14,000 copies have sold."

The FBI files on the American Indian Movement and Wounded Knee
ASIN: 0890939896 Availability: This title is out of print.

The FBI Files Available From the Leonard Peltier Defense Committee
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