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Wounded Knee Massacre

The infant survivor of Wounded Knee spent her life in desperate pursuit of a heritage that always eluded her.

Zintkála Nuni was four

The most celebrated of all Indian leaders gets his first new biography in more than half a century.

In the autumn of 1884, a young Lakota named Standing Bear, a student at the Carlisle Indian School, was granted permission to travel into Philadelphia and attend a stage show.

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