Sioux Chiefs and U.S. Soldiers on the Upper Missouri, 1854–1868
by
Doreen Chaky
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2014
They called themselves Dakota, but the explorers and fur traders who first encountered these people in the sixteenth century referred to them as Sioux, a corruption of the name their enemies called them. That linguistic dissonance foreshadowed a series of bloodier conflicts between Sioux warriors...