
The Sitting Bull Surrender Census
The Lakotas at Standing Rock Agency, 1881
Ephriam D. Dickson(Author)
South Dakota State Historical Society (Publisher)
Published on 30. January 2011
Book
Hardback
348 pages
978-0-9822749-7-2 (ISBN)
Description
Following Sitting Bull's surrender to the United States Army in 1881, the Indian Division of the United States Census Office conducted a full and detailed census of the Sioux Indians at Standing Rock Indian Agency in central Dakota Territory. This census is the most complete and accurate account of Sitting Bull's followers and, until Ephriam Dickson III compiled this important work, the information contained within its pages had been hidden in archives beyond the reach of most researchers. Dickson's book provides researchers and historians with an unrivalled resource with which to assess and analyze this group of American Indians. In The Sitting Bull Surrender Census, Dickson has taken one of the total thirty-three different lists of Lakota families, with support from oral histories, and provided insight into the composition of community or tiyospaye at Standing Rock, as Lakotas shifted from their traditional buffalo-hunting ways to their new sedentary life on the reservation. The Sitting Bull Surrender Census preserves the earliest detailed enumeration of every Lakota man, woman, and child at the agency at a critical juncture in Lakota history, just as the last of the non-treaty bands under Sitting Bull returned from Canada and joined their relatives at Standing Rock. Viewed within the context of Standing Rock's rich documentary sources, Sitting Bull Surrender Census offers a remarkable snapshot of Lakota families and communities.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Pierre
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
Black and white photographs
Dimensions
Height: 279 mm
Width: 216 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
1215 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9822749-7-2 (9780982274972)
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