by late 1889, this devastated and overwhelmed the lakota people. this led to the lakota's uncertainty regarding their continued existence as a people. fostering a devastation that led -- a desperation that led many of them to turn to the ghost dance as a way to rejuvenate culturally and to ensure their survival as a people. the coming of the ghost dance became the direct catalyst and precursor for the military occupation of the sioux reservations that in due course culminated in the death of sitting bull. and determined the resulting flight of chief bigfoot and his people south of the cheyenne river to their doom on wounded knee creek. all of this is thoroughly chronicled in the book, for those of you who have seen the book, i think you can appreciate the amount of research that went into it. also, the roles of the principal leaders like red cloud, sitting bull, american horse. also the foremost ghost dance leaders, short bull and kicking bear. and the roles of indian agents like james mclachlan and military leaders like major general nelson miles.

the lakota accounts? are there discrepancies? did you see a lot of in accuracies or glaring inconsistencies? >> there are certainly inaccuracies in any of these, as i'm sure that you are aware of. but usually other than accounts of people that were there, stating what happened, those are a little difficult as to determine credibility. if you get more than one source that says will suggest the same -- says or suggests the same thing, like the young man with the gun that i was talking about, and i had heard that but i did find several sources that referenced that. incidentally, i think i used her master's thesis. [laughter] are you colonel russell? >> no, sir. [laughter] >> unless you got in the last four months -- >> thank you. it was good, even if you didn't do it. [laughter] >> concerning the seven calvary personnel, is there any idea how many men participated in a -- the little big horn campaign? >> yes, it is in the book. specifically,er and i was interested in finding that myself. i want to say off th

i am a lakota. like thousands of others, my life was turned upside down through the turmoil forced upon me by a system designed by the u.s. government to destroy my culture. i am finding my way back to the lakota way of life. i didn't know the medical words, so i called the problem what i felt it to be: the thick, dark fog. [slow electric guitar melody] ♪ - you're supposed to get-- look excited. [laughing] see? happy. oh, my god. it's a book. [laughs] it's not even the hardcover. - it's a start. - walter decided that he wanted to write down his memories for his children. and shortly into it, he reached a block where he had started talking about his boarding school years and he couldn't keep talking. he withdrew. he became very tearful. - my own children-- i'm estranged from them, simply because i never figured out how to be a father or even how to be a human being. and i realize that they didn't know anything about me, because i never talked to them about what i was. - it took us four years before w

they were originally paper so this is the winter counts kept by the lakota and he wrote this down in the 1880s at the request of an american army officer anarmyofficer and it isr date the army officer someone else went back and started with the most recent illustration which you don't see here and started counting backwards marking the years and when he got back to year number one the beginning of this particular history at least in 1776 this is when washington captured boston and thomas payne wrote common sense when congress declared independence as we know. it is also standing boy discovered the black hills. so the two nations were born that year. what do the diplomats in paris have to do with this? you will recall that they were in possession of the swath of the continent at least on paper. and as though the present-day pittsburgh northwest to fort detroit and the garrison commanders began to treat the local indians like subordinate. one wrote to the british troops. victory wherever they advanced into the habit driven the armies of both the french and nato e. for them so every imp

as lakota theust is still foggy in there. mid '60's where 78 and the san jose cupertino may well vary will hit 80 upper eighties to mid 90's there. and expect overseas upper 60s of 68 in oakland and san francisco the little cooler. in the north bay look for upper 70's. and now has a job and not to the low 80s and that's where it will stay with finish up the we could allow weather both and land and inside the bay a whole, as the heading into next week in. >>: good morning for next 5 business it's hearsay rule is you should be aware of if your phone battery is dead it can keep you from the past security old boy in the airplane. and this includes adding asking passengers to power of the devices. the screen is need to see that should device is a functioning gadget and a has and and how about to use as a bomb. the gatt is being targeted our phones tablets of laptops and have helped gaming devices. samsung galaxies and i fall seven singled out for scrutiny in europe the middle east and africa. the device may not make it onto the ai

in this talk he recounts , firsthand recollections from lakota indians about the day in which the u.s. cavalry fired on their camp. killing about 300. the kansas city public library hosted this program. >> i am curious how many of you have heard of wounded knee? i suspect virtually everyone has.