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The road to Wounded Knee
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"In this shocking, agonizing and powerful book, Robert Burnette, the Tribal Chairman of the Rosebud Sioux Reservation, and John Koster, a white journalist who has covered Indian activism, raise imp...
"In this shocking, agonizing and powerful book, Robert Burnette, the Tribal Chairman of the Rosebud Sioux Reservation, and John Koster, a white journalist who has covered Indian activism, raise impassioned angry voices to tell the truth about Wounded Knee. Why it happened. What led up to it. And what should and must happen now."--Back cover.
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- Creator
- Robert Burnette and John Koster
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- Language
- English
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- New York : Bantam Books, 1974
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- xv, 332 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780552685382, 0552685380, 0553085387, 9780553085389
- OCLC
- ocm01025697, ocm01025697
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-322) and index.
- Introduction: the new Indian wars -- Three centuries of genocide -- The rebirth of Indian religion -- Indian education: the big whitewash -- Health and welfare: the politics of hunger -- Treaties and land: real estate deals at gunpoint -- Law and disorder -- The BIA: big brother is watching -- Tribal government: blueprint for corruption -- The trail of broken treaties -- Wounded Knee -- Business as usual -- The rebirth of the Indian