The Politics of Hallowed Ground: Wounded Knee and the Struggle for Indian SovereigntyUniversity of Illinois Press, 1999 - 428 pages Inside the Sioux Nation's pursuit of recognition and justice This book is the powerful story of the ongoing struggle of indigenous Americans in the twentieth century United States and of its shift in focus from traditional battlefield and massacre sites to federal courtrooms and the halls of Congress. The Politics of Hallowed Ground includes excerpts from the diary kept by Mario Gonzalez, the attorney for the Sioux Nation in its struggle for recognition of the Wounded Knee Massacre site as a national monument. Gonzalez's personal record of the struggle is coupled with commentary by Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, a Native American writer who places the work in its historical context. Together, the two voices will draw the reader into far more than the continuing struggle of the Sioux people to achieve justice. The book covers Sioux history from before the Wounded Knee tragedy to modern times, through the Sioux Nation's long and often rancorous dialogue with the U.S. government over control of South Dakota's Black Hills, traditional Sioux lands recognized by treaty in 1877 and never forfeited or sold. After reading a 13-year-old survivor's narrative of what happened at Wounded Knee and the list of the dead and wounded, readers will find it difficult not to share the Sioux perspective. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Diaries and Chronicles 198993 | 11 |
Introduction to Diaries and Chronicles | 13 |
The Dilemma of Ethical Systems and Legal Ideas May 51989October 301990 | 23 |
Word Searchers and Big Font Riders November 1 1990April 241991 | 79 |
Wocowoyake True Stories April 30 1991October 121991 | 121 |
Epilogue | 231 |
Appendixes | 233 |
Written Testimony of Mario Gonzalez from the September 251990 Senate Hearing | 248 |
The Forced Reduction of the Great Sioux Reservation | 257 |
Chronology of Events Leading Up to the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre | 292 |
The Wounded Knee Death List | 296 |
Chronology of HistoricalLegal Events on Sioux Land Claims | 331 |
A Resolution Expressing the Federal Governments Deep Regret for the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre | 358 |
A Bill to Establish a Wounded Knee National Tribal Park | 360 |
Notes | 368 |
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