Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull: the Final Holdouts of the Great Sioux Nation
$10.00
Mary Lee Fitzgerald has taught many ILR courses centering on the history and people of the Southwest. She grew up in Tucson, retired with her husband to Sun City in 2007 and currently chairs the ILR curriculum committee.
Description
Wounded Knee, the Battle of Big Horn, Custer’s Last Stand, the Black Hills and Mt. Rushmore, the Badlands and the buffalo are all familiar place names in the great battlefields of the Sioux Nation. Crazy Horse and Sitting bull were the indomitable and undefeated leaders, brilliant, courageous and unwavering opponents of white men’s encroachments on their land. But what makes this story so compelling is the continuing attempts of the U.S. government to curtain and thwart the existence of the Sioux that resurfaced in the 1970s. By great historical irony, many of the arid and wasted lands, the white men saw no value in keeping, became reservations…and many of those reservations lie on top of the greatest energy resources in the entire country: petroleum, coal and uranium. And so, the Indians are in the way again.
Instructor: Mary Lee Fitzgerald 4 Fridays, 10/24, 11/7, 11/14, 11/21 at 2:00 p.m. in Catalina Vista.
