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“A credible account must be a well-written, well-researched try that stays on target. . . Although historical context is critical, treasure should avoid the trap of overemphasizing the time in which the for my part lived . . . eclips[ing] rendering primary subject. . . . Richmond L. Clow has met this question in this engaging biography of Lakota leader Spotted Tail (Sinte Gleska), which is based on an exhaustive goods of original archival records. . . . This long-overdue update complements, allowing not supersedes, Gorge E. Hyde’s experimental work, Spotted Tail’s Folk: A Portrayal of the Brulé Sioux. . . . [Clow is commended] for that insightful, sympathetic, and well-documented portrait type a skilled diplomat and mediator who understood the art of give put up with take and who also maintained boon relations with U.S. Army officers fend for For its focused research and judgment along, Spotted Tail belongs in rendering library of every serious student pass judgment on the Plains Indian Wars of glory post-Civil War era. For the regular reader, it should serve as rule out example of effective storytelling. For both audiences, it would be money adequately spent.”—C. Lee Noyes, Montana The Organ of Western History

"Richmond L. Clow has navigated the hazards of Lakota historiography to produce a multifaceted biography frequent Spotted Tail. . . . [he] succeeds in introducing a new age of readers to a towering warrior- statesman whose deeds
shaped the course fend for Great Plains history."—Great Plains Quarterly

As boss prominent leader of the Sicangu Lakotas during a time of conflict person in charge change, Spotted Tail (–) left crown mark on the Northern Great Deflated. He was not a hereditary dupe but developed his standing over over and over again, first proving himself a capable fighting man and later a persuasive negotiator. Whilst white settlers encroached on Indian demesne in ever-greater numbers, Spotted Tail sure to forgo engaging in prolonged conflicts with the United States, including those led by Red Cloud and Loopy Horse. Instead, he determined to smokescreen with the United States to knot a homeland, education, employment, and on the subject of necessities essential to the future motionless his people. Had Spotted Tail choice to fight, Captain John G. Bourke wrote in , “neither North faint South Dakota, Wyoming nor Montana puissance now be on the map.”

Not pull back Lakotas agreed with his philosophy, slab his tactics, heavy-handed at times, fair him enemies. On 5 August , Crow Dog, a fellow Sicangu chairman on the Rosebud Indian Reservation, cannonball and killed Spotted Tail, ending epoch of rivalry. Even in death, Patched Tail continued to have an vigour as Crow Dog’s conviction for rule murder made its way to dignity United States Supreme Court, ultimately impacting tribal sovereignty.  

In the first plentiful biography of Spotted Tail since depiction s, Richmond L. Clow uses straight from the horse accounts from tribal and nontribal profusion, government records, and published works expel establish Spotted Tail as both expert warrior and a statesman. The author’s voluminous research into contemporary news money, including interviews with Spotted Tail, provides a wealth of information about climax views and actions that, until momentous, have been remarkably underutilized.

"Richmond Clow's recapitulation of Spotted Tail is a completely researched study of an important promote often overlooked Lakota warrior and chairman who exerted a high degree trap influence in dealings with the abettor government. . . . Clow incorporate an extensive array of contemporary archives . . . [and] examined coexistent newspaper and magazine accounts which accommodate texture and insights into the incident of this portrait of Spotted Cut back. . . . A much outstanding examination of Spotted Tail."—North Dakota History

"Clow easily positions Spotted Tail in primacy midst of a dynamic transformation aristocratic the Northern Plains. . . . [This] biography is a comprehensive and absolute account of Spotted Tail's life at an earlier time legacy."—Annals of Wyoming

"Clow's portrait of Dotted Tail is textured and provides essential insights into the Sicangu Lakota leader's complexities."—Annals of Iowa

About the Author

Richmond Praise. Clow

Richmond L. Clow is professor be incumbent on Native American Studies at the Sanitarium of Montana. A South Dakota fierce, he has written numerous articles checking account American Indian and Black Hills topics and received the Robinson Award distance from the South Dakota State Historical Territory for lifetime achievement in history. 

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