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Sand Creek and the Tragic End of a Lifeway (Hardcover)
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Sand Creek and the Tragic End of a Lifeway (Hardcover)
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Nothing can change the terrible facts of the Sand Creek Massacre.
The human toll of this horrific event and the ensuing loss of a way
of life have never been fully recounted until now. In Sand Creek
and the Tragic End of a Lifeway, Louis Kraft tells this story,
drawing on the words and actions of those who participated in the
events at this critical time. The history that culminated in the
end of a lifeway begins with the arrival of Algonquin-speaking
peoples in North America, proceeds through the emergence of the
Cheyennes and Arapahos on the Central Plains, and ends with the
incursion of white people seeking land and gold. Beginning in the
earliest days of the Southern Cheyennes, Kraft brings the voices of
the past to bear on the events leading to the brutal murder of
people and its disastrous aftermath. Through their testimony and
their deeds as reported by contemporaries, major and supporting
players give us a broad and nuanced view of the discovery of gold
on Cheyenne and Arapaho land in the 1850s, followed by the land
theft condoned by the U.S. government. The peace treaties and
perfidy, the unfolding massacre and the investigations that
followed, the devastating end of the Indians' already-circumscribed
freedom - all are revealed through the eyes of government
officials, newspapers, and the military; Cheyennes and Arapahos who
sought peace with or who fought Anglo-Americans; whites and Indians
who intermarried and their offspring; and whites who dared to
question what they considered heinous actions. As instructive as it
is harrowing, the history recounted here lives on in the telling,
along with a way of life destroyed in all but cultural memory. To
that memory this book gives eloquent, resonating voice.
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