02054cam a2200337 i 4500 540873000 TxGeo 20211209120000.0 190318s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018966994 9780300255256 trade pbk. 030025525X trade pbk. (OCoLC)1089959340 TxGeo rda Hämäläinen, Pekka. Lakota America : a new history of indigenous power / Pekka Hämäläinen. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2019] ix, 530 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Lamar series in western history Contains bibliographical references (pages 399-505) and index. This account of the Lakota Indians traces their rich and often surprising history from the early sixteenth to the early twenty-first century. Pekka Hamalainen explores the Lakotas' roots as marginal hunter-gatherers and reveals how they reinvented themselves twice: first as a river people who dominated the Missouri Valley, America's great commercial artery, and then -- in what was America's first sweeping westward expansion -- as a horse people who ruled supreme on the vast high plains. Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull are iconic figures in the American imagination, but in this book they emerge as something different: the architects of Lakota America, an expansive and enduring Indigenous regime that commanded human fates in the North American interior for generations. 20211229. Lakota Indians History. United States History 18th century. United States History 19th century. Lamar series in western history. QS5