| | 1 | Author: | King, Captain Charles | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Custer's Last Battle  | | | | Published: | 1996 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | IT is hard to say how many years ago the Dakotas of the upper
Mississippi, after a century of warring with the Chippewa nation,
began to swarm across the Missouri in search of the buffalo, and
there became embroiled with other tribes claiming the country
farther west. Dakota was the proper tribal name, but as they
crossed this Northwestern Rubicon into the territory of unknown
foemen they bore with them a title given them as far east as the
banks and bluffs of the Father of Waters. The Chippewas had called
them for years "the Sioux" (Soo), and by that strange un-Indian-sounding title is known to this day the most numerous and powerful
nation of red people—warriors, women, and children—to be found on
our continent. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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