San Antonio College Library

Examines the life and leadership of Sitting Bull and focuses on the Sioux ethnology of the Hunkpapas tribe.

Fifty-five years after the Battle of the Little Big Horn, Chief Joseph White Bull (Pte-san-hunka) of the Miniconjou sub-band of the Teton Sioux drew and annotated a pictographic account of his personal exploits in which he claimed to have killed General Custer. White Bull depicted hunts, horse-stealing expeditions, intertribal battles, and other tribal activities in which he took part as a youth.

What happened to the Sioux after the Little Bighorn. Illustrates how two countries, the United States and Canada, struggled to control their potentially explosive common border.

The great Native American warriors and their resistance to the United States government in the war against the Plains Indians is a well known chapter in the story of the American West. In the aftermath of the great resistance, as the Indian nations recovered from war, many figures loomed heroic yet their stories are mostly unknown. Dewey Beard, a Lakota who witnessed the Battle of Little Bighorn and survived the Wounded Knee Massacre, led a remarkable...