Full name: Killing Custer: The Battle of the Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians

Author: James Welch Year: 1994 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Western Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780393329391 0393329399

General George Custer's 1876 attack on a huge encampment of Plains Indians has gone down as the most disastrous defeat in American history. Much less understood is how disastrous it was for the "victors, " the Sioux and Cheyenne under the leadership of Sitting Bull: within fifteen years all Native Americans were confined to reservations, their culture in ruins. James Welch poignantly resurrects their side of the story from beneath a mountain of myth and misinterpretation, relating in masterful prose the pride and desperation of a people stripped of treaty rights and hounded from ancestral hunting grounds into wretched reservations. Through this critical missing piece that tells the Indian side of the story, " Killing Custer" rethinks the meaning of the Little Bighorn for a multicultural society. Similar books: The Greatest Stories Never Told by Rick Beyer Cheyenne Autumn by Mari Sandoz 1492 by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto The Evolution of Civilizations by Carroll Quigley Indian Givers by Jack Weatherford A Brief History of the Western World by Thomas H. Greer Catastrophe by David Keys Unnatural Murder by Anne Somerset Civilization by Roger Osborne Captain Bligh's Portable Nightmare by John Toohey Cotton by Stephen Yafa The Twentieth Century by Howard Zinn Legends, Lies, and Cherished Myths of American History by Richard Shenkman Love Stories by Jonathan Ned Katz Napoleon's Privates by Tony Perrottet The Legacy of Conquest by Patricia Nelson Limerick Virgin Land by Henry Nash Smith Fools Crow by James Welch Blood and Thunder by Hampton Sides The Heart of Everything That Is by Bob Drury