Review of A Whirlwind Passes: News Correspondents and the Sioux Indian Disturbances of 1890-1891

Authors

Todd Kerstetter, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Date of this Version

1994

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly 14:4 (Fall 1994). Copyright © 1994 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Abstract

Newspapers played a key role in disseminating information and, unfortunately, misinformation about the Ghost Dance among the Lakotas. They also contributed to tension between the United States and the Lakotas that resulted in the grisly massacre at Wounded Knee. George R. Kolbenschlag's A Whirlwind Passes: News Correspondents and the Sioux Indian Disturbances of 1890-1891 sheds light on the men and women responsible for reporting on the Ghost Dance and the Wounded Knee Massacre and lends understanding to the nature of the reporters' activities.