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This 8-page paper provides a critical review on Jeffrey Ostler's book, "The Lakotas and the Black Hills: The Struggle for Sacred Ground." Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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50 miles wide," writes Stephen Goode (2010) of the Washington Post. Most Americans know about the Black Hills because of Mount Rushmore, and the faces of four historic U.S. Presidents
on its side. But Mount Rushmore is only a small part of the Black Hills; and the Black Hills themselves represent more
than a place to find unusual jewelry or to take a family on a summer vacation. Since the late 19th century, that patch of land, which rises out of the
Dakota flatlands like a dark and brooding vision, has been in dispute with a Sioux Indian tribe (known as the Lakota) claiming ownership rights against a United States government that
stoke those rights from the tribe more than 100 years ago. The story is about more than that of the evil white
U.S. government stealing land that belonged for thousands of years to the Indian tribes that settled it. In his book, The Lakotas and the Black Hills: The Struggle for Sacred
Ground, Jeffrey Ostler discusses the court battles the Lakota Sioux have waged to retain ownership of a land theyd settled thousands of years before white settlers sought for gold in
"dem dar hills." As tourists examine Mount Rushmore, Ostler points out, "few visitors to the site give much thought to the previous owners of the Black Hills . . ."
(p. 3). Though most Americans have a passing knowledge of the Battle of Wounded Knee, the assassination of Chief Sitting Bull and Custers Last Stand, those same Americans are likely
unaware of the continued court battles waged by the Lakota Sioux, or even the internal battles within the tribe about what next to do. Ostlers book attempts to do this,
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