The last significant clash of arms in the American Indian Wars took place on December 29, 1890, on the banks of Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. Of the 350 Teton Sioux Indians there, two-thirds were women and children. When the smoke cleared, 84 men and 62 women and children lay dead, their bodies scattered along a stretch of more than a mile where they had been trying to flee. Of some 500 soldiers and scouts, about 30 were dead—some, probably, from their own crossfire. Wounded Knee has excited contradictory accounts and heated emotions. To answer whether it was a battle or a massacre, Rex Alan Smith goes further into the historical records and cultural traditions of the combatants than anyone has gone before. His work results in what Alvin Josephy Jr., editor of American Heritage, calls "the most definitive and unbiased" account of all, Moon of Popping Trees.
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"As an Indian historian, I consider "Moon of Popping Trees" triumphantly superb. . . . History in its truest form and untarnished perspective."--Dallas Chief Eagle, former Director of the United Sioux Tribes
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The BEST Work on Native Americans,
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An unbiased, original, creative, compelling mastperpiece, Moon of Popping Trees is a brilliant and "professionally detached" work regarding Native American/European American relations prior to and including the Wounded Knee "incident." Of course, by "professionally detached" I mean amazingly separated from this often times over-emotionally approached subject in American History. Yet, what is most compelling about this absolute masterpiece, is that despite Smith's own emotional detachment, he by no means fails to draw in the emotion of the reader--a danger which "scholarly reflections" often succomb to. Smith's work is perennial, cautious, and yet fascinatingly marvelous in its ability to "suck in" the reader. A subject I often pay little attention to and have little care for...Moon of Popping trees gave me a desire to study this area of history in greater detail.
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When I visited the museum at Wounded Knee, I asked the woman at the counter
what she would suggest as the definitive book on the subject. She told me she was Lakota and her favorite book so far on the accuracy of what happened there was this book.."Moon of Popping Trees". I could not put the book down...and was amazed to find out that nothing has changed much in the dispatch of military personnel to places unfamiliar with the "American Way". Had the military done it's homework and left in place the officers that KNEW the Lakota, this tragedy may never have happened. This is a book of history, told true and told very well.
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After corresponding with Rex Alan Smith on line, what ever he had written about the battle at Wounded Knee left little doubt about the careful research that went into this history. Even the weather reports for the day of the battle and the day after present a more clear understanding of what really transpired during these days.
Mr Smith, now deceased, also had written the definitive book about the creation of the mountain sculpture of Crazy Horse which is now used as the source for tourists visiting this monument. It was a privilege to correspond with this author as his information is not to be doubted.
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