ANTHMAI copy purchased with funds from the Lloyd and Charlotte Wineland Library Endowment for Native American and Western Exploration Literature.
Contents:
List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1 -- making the arrangements, June 26-August 29, 1875 -- Part 2 -- Palavering, prognosticating, and procrastinating, September 1-9, 1875 -- Part 3 -- getting down to business, September 20-27, 1875 -- Part 4 -- frustration and failure, September 29 -- October 7, 1875 -- Appendixes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary:
Transcribed dispatches from the 1875 Black Hills Council where U.S. government agents met with Native American leaders from plains and mountain tribes including the Lakota, Cheyenne, Western Sioux, Crow, Shoshone to negotiate ownership of the Black Hills. Dispatches are grouped chronologically by byline date rather than actual publication date
