The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn: A Lakota History - Hardcover

Marshall III, Joseph M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670038539 ISBN 13: 9780670038534

Publisher: Viking Adult, 2007

Synopsis

An account of the legendary battle, told from a Lakota perspective, documents key Lakota oral traditions to reveal the nuanced complexities that led up to and followed the conflict.

About this title

About the Author:

Joseph M. Marshall III is an acclaimed historian and author of six previous books, including the bestselling The Journey of Crazy Horse and The Lakota Way. Marshall was raised on the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation in South Dakota and now lives in the Southwest. Marshall was an actor in and consultant and narrator for TNTĀ’s award-winning miniseries Into the West.

From Publishers Weekly:

America's westward expansion in the 19th century was far from a foregone conclusion to the thousands of indigenous peoples, whose ancient way of life lay in its path. Historian Marshall (The Journey of Crazy Horse; The Lakota Way), who was born on South Dakota's Rosebud Sioux Reservation and has long chronicled the traditions and perspective of the Great Plains tribes, explains the context and the painful aftermath of this major turning point in his people's history. His careful description of the Greasy Grass Fight of 1876 (or the Battle of the Little Bighorn) overturns the popular misconception that the Lakota and Northern Cheyenne warriors' victory over the U.S. Seventh Cavalry was a "fluke" or, worse still, "a massacre." Yet he also registers the enormity of the change that followed—including forced settlement, assimilation and dependency—when Crazy Horse surrendered his rifle to a U.S. Army officer less than a year later. Chapters alternately emphasizing strategy, weaponry, beliefs, lifestyle and other areas lend a fractured quality and some redundancy to the narrative. But Marshall's thoughtful reflections and rich detail (much of it drawn from the oral stories of unidentified Lakota elders) also immerse the reader in the experience of a once free people wrestling with an uncertain destiny. (May)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Adult
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0670038539
• ISBN 13: 9780670038534
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288