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  • Cover ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Contents ; Preface; Acknowledgments; A Note on Terminology; Introduction; Oglala Political History: An Overview; Documents in Oglala Lakota Political History; 1. Origins of the Očeti Sakowiŋ; 2. Oglala Winter Counts; 3. Jean- Baptiste Truteau Describes Lakota Politics and Expansion (1795); 4. Treaty with the Sioune and Oglala Tribes (1825); 5. Francis Parkman Observes an Oglala Political Meeting (1846); 6. Oglalas Meet with U.S. Officials (1867- 1868); 7. Second Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868); 8. Breaking Up the Great Sioux Reservation (1889)
  • 17. Christianity and Politics on Pine Ridge Reservation (1936- 1937)18. Initial Ordinances and Resolutions of Oglala Sioux Tribal Council (1937); 19. Early Ordinances and Resolutions of Oglala Sioux Tribal Council (1938); 20. Oglala Sioux Tribe Bans Display of"Uncivilized Practices" (1938); 21. Office of Indian Affairs Monitors the Cutting of Timber (1940); 22. Office of Indian Affairs Curtails Oglala Sioux Tribal Authority (1942); 23. Letters of Frank Ecoffey (1942); 24. Office of Indian Affairs Officials Suggest Forcing Pine Ridge Oglalas to Contribute to War Effort (1943).
  • 25. Interior Secretary Harold Ickes Restricts Tribal Government Membership (1943)26. Tribal Council Terminates the Tribal Buffalo Herd (1944); 27. Letter Granting Mr. and Mrs. Fast Horse Permission to Leave Pine Ridge Reservation (1945); 28. Resolution to Remove Pine Ridge Superintendent W.O. Roberts (1945); 29. Tribal Council Authorizes a Delegation to Washington DC (1946); 30. Porcupine District Council Demands a "White Man"as Farm Agent (1946); 31. Congress Authorizes Compensation for Gunnery Range Land Seizures (1956).
  • 32. Commissioner of Indian Affairs Demands Greater Bureaucratic Efficiency (1960)33. Edison Ward Interviews South Dakota State Attorney Robert Maule (1964); 34. Tribal President Johnson Holy Rock Interviewed (1967); 35. Former Tribal Council Member Thomas Conroy Interviewed (1967); 36. Future Tribal President Gerald One Feather Interviewed (1967); 37. Oglala Sioux Tribe Bill of Rights (1968); 38. Interior Department Certifies Pine Ridge Elections (1968); 39. Presidential Hopeful Robert Kennedy Visits Pine Ridge Reservation (1968); 40. Political Tensions on Pine Ridge Reservation (1970).
  • 9. Breaking Up Pine Ridge Reservation and Organizing Bennett County (1910)10. Preamble to the Constitution and Bylaws of the Oglala Tribal Council (1921); 11. John Collier's Plains Congress, Rapid City, South Dakota (1934); 12. The Indian Reorganization Act (1934); 13. Preamble to the Constitution and Bylaws of the Oglala Sioux Tribe of the Pine Ridge Reservation of South Dakota (1936); 14. Final Meeting of the Oglala Tribal Council (1936); 15. Oglala Sioux Tribal Council Resolution No. 1 (1936); 16. Meetings of the Oglala Sioux Tribal Council (1936).