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Summary Of The Bloody Victory Of General Custer At Little Big Horn
"The story begins with the bloody victory of the Sioux over General Custer at Little Big Horn and develops from the perspective of three characters: Charles Eastman (Beach), a young doctor educated by the whites who is the living example of integration; Sitting Bull (Schellenberg), the proud Dakota chief who refuses to submit to the authority of the police of the US government trying to take away their own identity, their dignity and their sacred lands; Senator Henry Dawes and (Quinn), who is one of the creators of this policy on the Indians.

Quite simply a masterpiece of conscientious research and organisational artistry.

I have to confess my sympathies were stronger for the tribes that fought back – especially the Lakota whose culture


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