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title	:	Moon of Popping Trees
author	:	Smith, Rex Alan.
publisher	:	University of Nebraska Press
isbn10 | asin	:	0803291205
print isbn13	:	9780803291201
ebook isbn13	:	9780585318905
language	:	English
subject	Wounded Knee Creek, Battle of, 1890, Teton Indians--History, Ghost dance.
publication date	:	1981
lcc	:	E83.89.S58 1981eb
ddc	:	973.8/6
subject	:	Wounded Knee Creek, Battle of, 1890, Teton Indians--History, Ghost dance.

Page iii Moon of Popping Trees Rex Alan Smith

Page iv Copyright 1975 by Rex Alan Smith All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Reprinted by arrangement with the author First Bison Book printing: 1981 Most recent printing indicated by first digit below: 8 9 10 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Smith, Rex Alan. Moon of Popping Trees. Reprint of the ed. published by Reader's Digest Press, New York. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Wounded Knee Creek, Battle of, 1890. 2. Teton IndiansHistory. 3. Ghost dance. I. Title. [E83.89.S58 1981] 973.8'6 8024863 ISBN 0803241232 ISBN 0803291205 (pbk.)

Page v Contents Preface vii Foreword xi 1 In the Moon of Popping Trees 1 2 The Holy Road 8 3 The Mormon Cow 15 4 Growing Conflict 25 5 Collision 36 6 "God Damn a Potato!" 46 7 Messiah 64 8 Ghost Dance 76 9 Panic in the North 97 10 "Indians Are Dancing in the Snow..." 118 11 Sitting Bull 146 12 The Flight of Big Foot 161 13 Wounded Knee 178 Epilogue 201 Bibliography 205 Index 209

Page vii Preface During the 1973 occupation of the Indian community of Wounded Knee by other Indians, many people asked me what happened at Wounded Knee "the first time." They knew it was something bad, but they weren't quite sure what it was. And that's how Moon of Popping Trees began. Originally it was intended only as an article telling the story of the Wounded Knee tragedy of 1890. Had the project stopped there, Popping Trees would no doubt have been just the basic story of that event, and probably no more enlightening than a hundred previous ones on the same subject. But then I was given a Reader's Digest assignment to investigate and report on the Indian problems of today. And the more I traveled, studied, and interviewed in researching the so-called Indian problem, the more I realized that all of its elementsracial attitudes, cultural conflicts, interpretation of treaties, congressional actions, impact of the press,are directly tied to and influenced by those same elements as they existed on the frontier nearly a century ago. Then I began seeing Moon of Popping Trees as much more than the simple story of a fight. It began to emerge as a potential vehicle for giving Indians and non-Indians alike a better understanding of the Indian problems of today through a more accurate understanding of their background and development. At that point the Popping Trees project shifted from article to book. And even though I already had a comprehensive background in its subject material, I suddenly found myself buried under a burden of research far heavier than anything I had expected. The reason is that key word, "accurate." For in no area of American history is true accuracy harder to achieve, nor has more inaccurate nonsense been written, than in that pertaining to the American Indian. There are several reasons.

Page viii One is that, having no written language, the Indians of earlier times could not record events and impressions as they occurred. Thus, their history was written by non-Indians who, more often than not, knew little about Indians, and who had to depend to a considerable extent on the Indians' stories. As might be expected, however, as those stories were handed down they tended to change in the retelling to the extent that Indian oral history is very undependable. (A good example of this is the Indian accounts of the destruction of Custer's force at the Little Big Horn. Dozens of Indian accounts of that fight are in existence. And yet, historians still cannot agree on just what happened there because the Indian accounts are so fragmented and contradictory that no reasonably consistent story can be constructed from them.)

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