Warrior for a Lost Nation (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Dorothy M. Johnson
- First Published: 1969
- Time of Work: The 1830’s to the 1890’s
- Setting: North America
- Principal Characters: Sitting Bull, Returns Again, Little Assiniboin, Frank Grouard, Lieutenant Colonel George Custer, Colonel, Major James Walsh, James McLaughlin, Colonel William F. Cody, Catherine Weldon
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Family or family life, Polygamy or bigamy, Native Americans or American Indians, War, Canada or Canadians, Biography, Frontier or pioneer life, Treaties, Little Big Horn, Battle of
- Locales: North America
Form and Content
Divided into twelve chapters, Dorothy M. Johnson’s Warrior for a Lost Nation: A Biography of Sitting Bull covers the life of Sitting Bull in chronological sequence from his childhood growing up to be a Sioux warrior through his many clashes with the United States Cavalry and his eventual surrender and death on a reservation. As Johnson writes, from Sitting Bull’s appointment as head chief of the Sioux in 1867 (when he was in his mid-thirties) until his death in 1890, his story can also be read as the story of the whole Sioux nation—and indeed of...
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