I am looking to the North for my life"--Sitting Bull, 1876-1881

Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1991. First edition, second printing. Hardcover. Extremely mild rubbing to spine head and foot, extremely gently rubbed corners, bright pages in tight binding, very gentle rubbing to DJ corners and edges, extremely light soiling to DJ, else Near Fine(+) in Near Fine(+) DJ.. Octavo in black DJ, x, 172 pages, b&w illustrations ; 24 cm. Lakota Indians -- Biography. || Sitting Bull, 1831-1890. || Series: University of Utah publications in the American West, volume 25. || What happened to the Sioux after the Little Bighorn. Illustrates how two countries, the United States and Canada, struggled to control their potentially explosive common border. || Contents: Peace is much more fatal to Indians than war : initial military operations in eastern Montana, 1876-1877 -- In another world, white men, but different from any I ever saw before : the Sioux seek asylum in the northwest Territories, winter 1877 -- A dangerous precedent : the Canadian Minister of the Interior visits Washington, D.C., summer 1877 -- You belong on the other side, this side belongs to us : the Terry Commission meets with the exiled Sioux, autumn 1877 -- These reports are wholly unfounded : rumors of invasion and war, winter and spring 1878 -- When there are no more buffalo or game, I will send my children to hunt and live on prairie mice : the politics of hunger, 1878-1880 -- The return of the Gall-Hearted Warriors : the Sioux surrender, 1880-1881. || DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve.