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The Last Sovereigns - Sitting Bull and the Resistance of the Free Lakotas (Hardcover)
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The Last Sovereigns - Sitting Bull and the Resistance of the Free Lakotas (Hardcover)
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2021 Spur Award Winner for Best Historical Nonfiction from the
Western Writers of America True West Magazine's 2020 Best Author
and Historical Nonfiction Book of the Year The Last Sovereigns is
the story of how Sioux chief Sitting Bull resisted the white man's
ways as a last best hope for the survival of an indigenous way of
life on the Great Plains-a nomadic life based on buffalo and
indigenous plants scattered across the Sioux's historical
territories that were sacred to him and his people. Robert M. Utley
explores the final four years of Sitting Bull's life of freedom,
from 1877 to 1881. To escape American vengeance for his assumed
role in the annihilation of Gen. George Armstrong Custer's command
at the Little Bighorn, Sitting Bull led his Hunkpapa following into
Canada. There he and his people interacted with the North-West
Mounted Police, in particular Maj. James M. Walsh. The Mounties
welcomed the Lakota and permitted them to remain if they promised
to abide by the laws and rules of Queen Victoria, the White Mother.
But the Canadian government wanted the Indians to return to their
homeland and the police made every effort to persuade them to
leave. They were aided by the diminishing herds of buffalo on which
the Indians relied for sustenance and by the aggressions of
Canadian Native groups that also relied on the buffalo. Sitting
Bull and his people endured hostility, tragedy, heartache,
indecision, uncertainty, and starvation and responded with stubborn
resistance to the loss of their freedom and way of life. In the
end, starvation doomed their sovereignty. This is their story.
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