HYDE, GEORGE E. - A Sioux Chronicle

Norman: The University of Oklahoma Press, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. A first edition of an examination of the struggles of the Sioux Nation after they were defeated and forced to live on reservations. Per the jacket flap, the Sioux were proud warriors, forced to live as farmers on unarable land. Once-regal chiefs were relegated to day laborers; the Sioux people were told to change their entire cultural, economic and spiritual habits. With several black & white plates depicting various Sioux leaders and tribespeople, and with a few maps. --- In full yellow cloth-covered boards with image of a Sioux shield to front, titling in blue and red to cover & spine; orange topstain. Jacket features representative images a Sioux man and woman to front panel. --- This book's jacket was once housed in an old-style Bro-Dart protector, which has left black remnants to edges of cloth covers; and with sticker removal evidence and prior owner's signature to front free endpaper, otherwise a sound, clean, tightly-bound copy. Unclipped dust jacket with small tears and traces of black smudges to edges, else intact and wrapped in new removable mylar protector.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; xix, 334 pages. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .

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