Prairie Man: The Struggle Between Sitting Bull and Indian Agent James Mclaughlin, Norma E. Matteoni, c. 2015.

Prairie Man: The Struggle Between Sitting Bull and Indian Agent James Mclaughlin, Norma E. Matteoni, c. 2015.

Prairie Man: The Struggle Between Sitting Bull and Indian Agent James Mclaughlin, Norma E. Matteoni, c. 2015.

Matteoni: longtime student of this subject, particularly, Sitting Bull; a legal scholar and a practicing lawyer. Has written a two-volume treatise on the Law of Eminent Domain in California. 

Matteoni, his home, apparently, is in Santa Clara county, California.

The Great Sioux Reservation, 1868 - 1889, was essentially the entire west one-half of South Dakota with a tiny toehold in south-central North Dakota.

When one read's the author's preface, it is amazing (and almost "criminal") that Kathlene DuVal did not mention Sitting Bull even once in her 2024 book, Native Nations. Link here. Link here. Link here.

I'm not sure how much note-taking I will take on this book. I may just read it for pleasure.

Having just read the first chapter, I would say that this author, Norman E. Matteoni, does a much better job of interpreting exactly what happened between the whites and the Native Americans at this time in history and won't attribute any of it to "woke" culture and climate change, as Kathleen DuVal does in her book. 

After reading that first chapter, it's hard not to read / interpret this story as one of genocide similar (unfortunately) to many other such stories of genocide perpetrated on groups that could not protect themselves.  

Lakota word for bison: Pte (p. 6).

Northern plains: Teton Sioux.

The history of the Teton Sioux, p. 7.

French traders first mentioned them in mid-1860s -- time of the Civil War -- Great Lakes area.

Sioux is shorthand for what the Ojibwa (Chippewa) enemies: called these tribes: Nadowesioux or  Nadouesou -- the shorthand, "Sioux."

They called themselves "friends" or "allies": Dakota, Nakota, Lakota.

Lakota division made up seven subgroups or bands, known as "seven council fires," to include: Oglala, Yanktonai, Miniconjou, and Hunkpapa.

The Sioux moved or were forced to move from woodlands of the north to northern plains to the (south)west.

Long plain of grasslands. They were soon known as Teton Sioux, from "Titonwan," said to mean "tolive where they can see" or "dwellers on the prairie."  

Multitudesof buffalo wherever they could see.

Then the acquisition of the horse form the southwest.

Produced a second shift in way of life.

The Teton Sioux made enemies of the Crow, Kowa, Shoshone, and Assiniboiine who shared in these lands.

Teton Sioux took the Black Hills away from the Crow.

Oregon Trail -- p. 8.