Our Hearts Fell to the Ground: Plains Indian Views of How the West Was Lost (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)

For Marcia who came to Wyoming,/or Graeme who liked thefast wind, and for Megan, who slept in her crib beside me while I thought about this book. Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Introduction....Pages 1-30 Lone Dog’s Winter Count....Pages 31-36 Horses, Guns, and Smallpox....Pages 37-55 A Pawnee Vision of the Future....Pages 56-60 The Life and Death of Four Bears....Pages 61-70 Counting Coups and Fighting for Survival....Pages 71-88 The Agony and Anger of the Eastern Sioux....Pages 89-101 Massacres North and South....Pages 102-110 Talking to the Peace Commissioners: The Treaty of Medicine Lodge, 1867....Pages 111-120 The Slaughter of the Buffalo....Pages 121-132 The Battle on the Greasy Grass, 1876....Pages 133-149 The End of Freedom....Pages 150-167 Attending the White Man’s Schools....Pages 168-181 The Life and Death of Sitting Bull....Pages 182-195 Killing the Dream....Pages 196-204 Epilogue....Pages 205-208 Back Matter....Pages 209-226 This unique anthology chronicles the Plains Indians' struggle to maintain their traditional way of life in the changing world of the nineteenth century. Its rich variety of 34 primary sources - including narratives, myths, speeches, and transcribed oral histories - gives students the rare opportunity to view the transformation of the West from Native American perspective. Calloway's comprehensive introduction offers crucial information on western expansion, territorial struggles among Indian tribes, the slaughter of the buffalo, and forced assimilation through the reservation system. More than 30 pieces of Plains Indian art are included, along with maps, headnotes, questions for consideration, a bibliography, a chronology, and an index.