Foreword Preface List of Maps and Illustrations Part One: Introduction: How the West Was Lost The Indian Peoples of the Plains The Conquest of the Plains The Reservations and the Era of Forced Acculturation Native Responses and the Search for Hope Voices and Visions Part Two: The Documents 1. A Sioux Archive Lone Dog''s Buffalo Robe 1. Lone Dog, Winter Count , 1800-1871 2. Horses, Guns, and Smallpox How the Blackfeet got Horses, Guns, and Smallpox 2. Saukamappee, Memories of War and Smallpox , 1787-1788 Trading Guns for Horses 3. Howling Wolf: The Great Peace , c. 1878-81 The Kiowas Meet Smallpox 4. Kiowa Legend: "I Bring Death" late 19th century 3.

The Life and Death of Four Bears Portrait of a Warrior 5. Four Bears as Painted by Karl Bodmer , 1834 Four Bears''s War Record 6. Buffalo Robe Painted by Four Bears , c. 1830 Four Bears Kills a Cheyenne Chief 7. Four Bears, Drawing of His Fight with a Cheyenne Chief, c. 1830 The Death Speech of Four Bears 8. Four Bears, Speech to the Arikaras and Mandans , July 30, 1837 4. Counting Coups and Fighting for Survival Fighting for Crow Country 9.

Arapooish, Speech on Crow Country , 1830s The Quest for Power 10. Two Leggings, The Dream and Reality of a Raid , 1919 A Woman''s View of War 11. Pretty Shield, "Like Talking to Water-Winds," 1932 Alliance with the United States 12. Plenty Coups: "The Only Way Open to Us," c. 1930 5. Massacres North and South Sand Creek, 1864 13. Little Bear, "The Soldiers Had Not Scalped Them Yet." c.

1905-1918 The Marias, 1870 14. Bear Head, "I Wished that the Seizers had Killed Me Too," 1935 6. Talking to the Peace Commissioners: The Treaty of Medicine Lodge, 1867 "When We Settle Down We Grow Pale and Die." 15. Satanta, Speech at the Treaty of Medicine Lodge, 1867 "I Want to Live and Die as I was Brought Up." 16. Ten Bears, Speech at the Treaty of Medicine Lodge , 1867 "Teach Us the Road to Travel." 17.

Satank, Speech at the Treaty of Medicine Lodge , 1867 7. The Slaughter of the Buffalo First Hide Hunters 18. Luther Standing Bear, "The Plains Were Covered with Dead Bison," 1928 The End of the Buffalo Road 19. Carl Sweezy, On Taking "the New Road," mid-20th Century The Last Buffalo Herd 20. Old Lady Horse, "War Between the Buffalo and the White Men," early 20th century When the Buffalo Went Away 21. Pretty Shield, "They Stared at the Empty Plains, as though Dreaming," 1932 8. The Battle on the Greasy Grass, 1876 Sioux Signs and Arikara Premonitions 22. Red Star, Reading the Sioux Signs , 1912 Repelling Reno 23.

Wooden Leg, A Cheyenne Account of the Battle , 1931 The Course of the Battle 24. Red Horse, Pictorial Record , 1881 Killing Custer''s Men 25. Iron Hawk, "The Soldiers Were All Rubbed Out," 1931 A View from the Village 26. Mrs. Spotted Horn Bull, "The Women and Children Cried," 1910 9. The End of Freedom "Melting Like Snow on the Hillside." 27. Red Cloud, Speech to the Secretary of the Interior , 1870 An Old Woman''s Dream 28.

Buffalo Bird Woman, Recalling the Old Days , 1921 Serving as a Judge 29. Wooden Leg, "I Just Listened, Said Nothing, and Did Nothing," 1931 Learning the White Man''s Ways 30. Carl Sweezy, Learning to like Wohaw , mid-20th century 10. Going Home The Northern Cheyenne Exodus 31. Iron Teeth, "We are Going Back to the North," 1926 32. Little Wolf, "Our Hearts Longed for the Country Where We Were Born," 1879 The Trial and Testimony of Standing Bear 33. Standing Bear, Testimony Before the Senate Committee , 1880 11. Attending the White Man''s Schools Early Days at Carlisle 34.

Luther Standing Bear, Life at Boarding School , 1928 An Indian Teacher Reflects on Indian Education 35. Zitkala-Sa, Retrospection , 1921 Negotiating Change 36. Wohaw, Self Portrait , 1878 12. Killing the Dream The Assassination of Sitting Bull, 1890 37. Lone Man, "Lieut. Bullhead Fired into Sitting Bull," 1920s The Wounded Knee Massacre, 1890 38. Bertha Kills Close to Lodge, "I was 17 years old," 1933 39. Black Elk, "The Nation''s Hoop is Broken," 1932 Epilogue APPENDICES Chronology of How the West Was Lost Questions for Consideration Selected Bibliography Index.