Review of Black Hills, White Justice: The Sioux Nation Versus the United States 1775 to the Present

Authors

Robert M. Kitson, New York, New York

Date of this Version

1992

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY 12:3 (Summer 1992). Copyright © 1992 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Abstract

The story of the Black Hills, recounted in this very readable chronicle by Edward Lazarus-- son of Arthur Lazarus, one of the attorneys who represented the Sioux Nation in its Black Hills claim against the U.S. government-DEten seems a case study in the history of IndianlnonIndian relations in North America. It encompasses some of the most famous names and events from the days of the frontier: Crazy Horse, Red Cloud, Custer, Little Big Hom, and Wounded Knee. It is that era that fascinates Americans when they are moved to think of the indigenous population of this continent, and the one that forces them to avert their eyes once they realized they've looked too closely, that what they are seeing is the conquest and dislocation of a people.