Murdering Indians
Subtitle: A Documentary History of the 1897 Killings That Inspired Louise Erdrich's the Plague of Doves
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780786475643
Subjects: North dakota, history; North dakota, social conditions
Description: "In 1897 a family of six was murdered in rural North Dakota. Several Dakota Indians from Standing Rock reservation were arrested, tried, pronounced guilty, and sentenced to hanged. This work gathers together many documents, including the transcript of the trial, along with the author's commentary, telling a disturbing tale of racism and revenge in the pioneer West"--