Title: We are a people in this world : the Lakota Sioux and the massacre at Wounded Knee /
Authors: Beasley, Conger,
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press,
Year: 1995
Subjects: Wounded Knee Massacre, S.D., 1890 Personal narratives.; Dakota Indians History; Dakota Indians Social life and customs; Big Foot Memorial Ride, S.D., 1990.
Abstract: Conger Beasley Jr. alternately recounts the events and details of the 1890 massacre of the Lakota Sioux at Wounded Knee and his participation, one hundred years later, in the commemorative Big Foot Memorial Ride. The counterpoint and contrast between the two events produce a powerful effect; the history, including oral accounts from survivors of the slaughter, is sometimes so brutal that the reader needs to be taken away, if only into the cold and wind of a century.