Chief Left Hand: Southern Arapaho (Civilization of the American Indian Series) (Volume 159),Used

Chief Left Hand: Southern Arapaho (Civilization of the American Indian Series) (Volume 159),Used

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This is the first biography of Chief Left Hand, diplomat, linguist, and legendary of the Plains Indians. Working from government reports, manuscripts, and the diaries and letters of those personsboth white and Indianwho knew him, Margaret Coel has developed an unusually readable, interesting, and closely documented account of his life and the life of his tribe during the fateful years of the mid1800s.It was in these years that thousands of goldseekers on their way to California and Oregon burst across the plains, first to traverse the territory consigned to the Indians and then, with the discovery of gold in 1858 on Little Dry Creek (formerly the site of the Southern Arapaho winter campground and presently Denver, Colorado), to settle.Chief Left Hand was one of the first of his people to acknowledge the inevitability of the white mans presence on the plain, and thereafter to espouse a policy of adamant peacefulness if not, finally, friendshiptoward the newcomers.Chief Left Hand is not only a consuming storypopular history at its bestbut an important work of original scholarship. In it the author: Clearly establishes the separate identities of the original Left Hand, the subject of her book, and the man by the same name who succeeded Little Raven in 1889 as the principal chief of the Southern Arapahos in Oklahomaa longtime source of confusion to students of western history;Lays to rest, with a series of previously unpublished letters by George Bent, a centurylong dispute among historians as to Left Hands fate at Sand Creek;Examines the role of John A. Evans, first governor of Colorado, in the Sand Creek Massacre. Colonel Chivington, commander of the Colorado Volunteers, has always (and justly) been held responsible for the surprise attack. But Governor Evans, who afterwards claimed ignorance and innocence of the colonels intentions, was also deeply involved. His letters, on file in the Colorado State Archives, have somehow escaped the scrutiny of historians and remain, for the most part, unpublished. These Coel has used extensively, allowing the governor to tell, in his own words, his real role in the massacre. The author also examines Evanss motivations for coming to Colorado, his involvement with the building of the transcontinental railroad, and his intention of clearing the Southern Arapahos from the plains an intention that abetted Chivingtons ambitions and led to their ruthless slaughter at Sand Creek.

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