The Road to Wounded KneeBantam Books, 1974 - 332 pages "In this shocking, agonizing and powerful book, Robert Burnette, the Tribal Chairman of the Rosebud Sioux Reservation, and John Koster, a white journalist who has covered Indian activism, raise impassioned angry voices to tell the truth about Wounded Knee. Why it happened. What led up to it. And what should and must happen now."--Back cover. |
Contents
Three Centuries of Genocide | 1 |
The Big Whitewash | 42 |
The Politics of Hunger | 71 |
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