We Are a People in This World: The Lakota Sioux and the Massacre at Wounded Knee

by Conger Beasley Jr.

In this compelling book, the author alternately recounts the events and details of the 1890 massacre of the Lakota Sioux at Wounded Knee and his participation, one hundred years later, in the commemorative Big Foot Memorial Ride. The counterpoint and contrast between the two events produces a powerful effect; the oral accounts of the survivors of the slaughter are sometimes so brutal that the reader needs to be taken away, if only into the cold and wind of a century later.

Genres: Nonfiction, History

172 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1995