Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Riley, Glenda

Titel

Woman Walking Ahead: In Search of Catherine Weldon and Sitting Bull

Ist Teil von

• Great Plains Quarterly, 2004, Vol.24 (1), p.51-51

Ort / Verlag

Lincoln: THE CENTER FOR GREAT PLAINS STUDIES

Erscheinungsjahr

2004

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In 1889, a widowed New Yorker, Catherine Weldon, representing the National Indian Defense Association, traveled to the Standing Rock reservation in the Dakota Territory to help Sitting Bull and the Sioux people resist the United States government's attempts to take their land. When the Ghost Dance movement, promising an Indian messiah, and the subsequent "uprising" of 1890-91 erupted, white journalists blamed Weldon, who had, in fact, attempted to disabuse Sitting Bull of his beliefs.