A Sioux Chronicle by George E. Hyde, 1956

[Californian]

George E. Hyde's Sioux Chronicle is highly recommended literature that covers Lakota history post 1868 to 1890 - a highly volatile period of attempted forced assimilation, blatant landgrab, dirty Washington politics, outright fraud and the false benevolence of the various Indian Rights Associations meddling in Indian affairs that really was to the great detriment of the Lakota people and their doings ultimately were one of the powerful driving forces that resulted in the breakup of the Great Sioux Reservation and loss of 19 million acres of land to the Sioux as so-called "surplus land". To any serious student of Lakota history, this book is a must-read!

A Sioux Chronicle, by George E. Hyde, University of Oklahoma Press, Norman OK 1956, 334 p., volume 45 of the Civilization of the American Indian Series

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[Californian]

The 2011 book "Wounded Knee: Party Politics and the Road to an American Massacre" by Heather Cox Richardson seems to have been drawn to a good extent on George E. Hyde's "A Sioux Chronicle". Granted that Heather Cox Richardson concentrated on the more immediate events leading up to the Wounded Knee tragedy and expanded on it, also including the involvement of eastern Indian Rights activist Caroline Weldon among the Hunkpapa of Standing Rock and Sitting Bull in particular.

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