Which chosen people?
Subtitle: manifest destiny meets the Sioux as seen by Frank Fiske, frontier photographer
By: Robert V. Dodge
Publisher: Algora Publishing
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9781628940275; 9781628940282; 9781628940299
Subjects: Dakota Indians; History; Wars, 1890-1891; Treatment of Indians; Government relations; Relocation; Photographers; Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-189) and index.
Table of contents: title: The new chosen people and the obsession; title: What led to Sitting Bull's hostility; title: The Sioux challenge to white empire; title: Sitting Bull as leader of the Sioux Nation; title: The Indians' final victory; title: Rounding up the Sioux after Little Big Horn; title: The 1880s, closing gates and "civilizing" Indians; title: Showdown between the chosen; title: Sitting Bull's murder and Frank's reaction; title: The American empire complete at Wounded Knee; title: Life goes on at standing rock; title: Frank growing up, discovering interests new and old; title: American exceptionalism moves overseas; title: Frank begins his career and revives his past; title: Riverboat travel, viewing the past and reflecting; title: Life as an adult at Standing Rock; title: Epilogue.