Wounded Knee 1973: A Personal Account by Stanley David Lyman

Lyman, Stanley David (Edited by Floyd A. O'Neil, June K. Lyman, and Susan McKay)

ISBN 10: 0803228899 / ISBN 13: 9780803228894

Published by University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1991

About this Item

SIGNED - Octavo. Light brown cloth covered boards and spine with shiny gilt lettering on the spine. Book has a nearly unnoticable trace of rubbing at the extreme tips of a few of the corners. White endpapers. Signed and inscribed by one of the editors on the title page in black pen: "To My Friend ------- ---- / No one I know could read / this work with more insight! / Floyd." Business card for - ------- ----, Executive Director of The Institute of the North American West tucked into the front of the book, so likely the recipient of the inscription. Binding is straight and tight. Pages are all clean, white, and crisp. 180 pages. Illustrated with a section of photographs and a couple maps. No dust jacket. Tight and clean.

Seller Inventory # 010656

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Wounded Knee 1973: A Personal Account by Stanley David Lyman
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803228899
• ISBN 13: 9780803228894
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: No Additional Printings Noted.
• Condition: VG+
• Signed: Signed by the Editor
• Seller catalogs:
  • History
  • Utah & Western History

About this title

Synopsis

Stanley Lyman, who was the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) superintendent at the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1973, gives an inside view of what happened when the American Indian Movement (AIM) activists occupied the village of Wounded Knee. Close to the action, he recorded it with unusual candor, directing his sorrow, frustration, and occasional anger to all parties involved—the Tribal Council, the Justice Department, the BIA, FBI, and AIM. His account of the besiegers and besieged reveals a well-meaning and intelligent man forced by dramatic events to reevaluate some long-cherished assumptions. It deserves to be read and studied in any attempt to understand fully Wounded Knee II.

About the Author

Floyd A. O'Neil and Susan McKay edited Wounded Knee 1973 with the help of the author's widow, June K Lyman. Alvin Josephy, Jr., who describes this book as "a very human document of an 'odd man out' in great personal travail," is the author of Red Power: The American Indians' Fight for Freedom (Bison Book, 1985).