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Voices of Wounded Knee. By William S. E. Coleman. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. xxiii + 434 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. £24.00, UK; $35.00, US.)

     On 29 December 1890, the United States Seventh Cavalry opened fire on Lakota Ghost Dancers near Wounded Knee Creek, leaving several hundred Native Americans dead. This massacre is one of the most infamous episodes in United States history and has rightly received much attention from scholars. William S. E. Coleman's new collection of documents is an important contribution to this literature. 1
     Voices of Wounded Knee is the result of nearly thirty years of archival research. Coleman has unearthed many important, never-before-published documents in places as remote as the American Museum in Bath, England. Coleman's research into Native American sources--which took him to archives in South Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, Wisconsin, Nebraska, and Oklahoma--is particularly impressive. . . .


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