We Are a People in This World: The Lakota Sioux and the Massacre at Wounded Knee

by Conger Beasley Jr.

Overview

In this compelling book, the author 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 produces a powerful effect; the oral accounts of the survivors of the slaughter are sometimes so brutal that the reader needs to be taken away, if only into the cold and wind of a century later.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781557283863
Publisher:	University of Arkansas Press
Publication date:	07/01/1995
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	172
Product dimensions:	(w) x (h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Conger Beasley Jr. is the author of a number of books, including Patagonia: Wild Land at the End of the Earth; Spanish Peaks; We Are a People in the World: The Lakota Sioux and the Massacre at Wounded Knee; and Sundancers and River Demons: Essays on Landscape and Ritual (University of Arkansas Press), winner of the Thorpe Menn Award for Literary Achievement.