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Stay Tuned for "The Smoke of the Sioux"

#1 Post by Spock » Sun Mar 18, 2018 9:58 am

In conjuction with JimC at Frontier Partisans:

https://frontierpartisans.com/

I am moving forward on a project called "The Smoke of the Sioux" to hopefully fill a gap on that site and provide an outlet for me in an area that I have long wanted to write about.

https://thesmokeofthesioux.blogspot.com/

I still need to get "The Smoke of Africa" up to date, but I think I may have been subconsciously delaying it as I did not know what to write next.

http://thesmokeofafrica.blogspot.com

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#2 Post by Spock » Mon Mar 19, 2018 9:50 am

Frontier Partisans on the launch of "The Smoke of the Sioux."

https://frontierpartisans.com/12813/smoke-of-the-sioux/

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#3 Post by Appa23 » Mon Mar 19, 2018 10:34 am

I will be very interested to see what you mean by " . . . the horrendous treatment of the Sioux (and other tribes) during the building of dams on the Missouri (to say nothing of the environmental devatastation) may receive early treatment."

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#4 Post by Spock » Mon Mar 19, 2018 10:44 am

Appa23 wrote:I will be very interested to see what you mean by " . . . the horrendous treatment of the Sioux (and other tribes) during the building of dams on the Missouri (to say nothing of the environmental devatastation) may receive early treatment."
I hope this doesn't come across as brusque, but it is the name of the book. Read "Dammed Indians" as a starting point. I can't find the book right now, but there is a good quote in the forward that I really like.

"Dammed Indians Revisited: The Continuing History of the Pick-Sloan Plan and the Missouri River Sioux."

The permanent flooding of those fertile and biologically diverse Missouri River bottomlands was/is a national tragedy.

Another book on the topic that I have, but I haven't read it yet, is "The Land Along the River: The Ongoing Saga of the Sioux Nation Land Claim 1851-2012."

I think my library is going to expand exponentially as this moves forward.-LOL

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#5 Post by Appa23 » Mon Mar 19, 2018 11:13 am

Spock wrote:
Appa23 wrote:I will be very interested to see what you mean by " . . . the horrendous treatment of the Sioux (and other tribes) during the building of dams on the Missouri (to say nothing of the environmental devatastation) may receive early treatment."
I hope this doesn't come across as brusque, but it is the name of the book. Read "Dammed Indians" as a starting point. I can't find the book right now, but there is a good quote in the forward that I really like.

"Dammed Indians Revisited: The Continuing History of the Pick-Sloan Plan and the Missouri River Sioux."

The permanent flooding of those fertile and biologically diverse Missouri River bottomlands was/is a national tragedy.

Another book on the topic that I have, but I haven't read it yet, is "The Land Along the River: The Ongoing Saga of the Sioux Nation Land Claim 1851-2012."

I think my library is going to expand exponentially as this moves forward.-LOL
Have read "Dammed Indians", as well as several other books.

Pretty much a requirement of my job. :lol:

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#6 Post by Spock » Mon Mar 19, 2018 12:07 pm

Appa23 wrote:
Spock wrote:
Appa23 wrote:I will be very interested to see what you mean by " . . . the horrendous treatment of the Sioux (and other tribes) during the building of dams on the Missouri (to say nothing of the environmental devatastation) may receive early treatment."
I hope this doesn't come across as brusque, but it is the name of the book. Read "Dammed Indians" as a starting point. I can't find the book right now, but there is a good quote in the forward that I really like.

"Dammed Indians Revisited: The Continuing History of the Pick-Sloan Plan and the Missouri River Sioux."

The permanent flooding of those fertile and biologically diverse Missouri River bottomlands was/is a national tragedy.

Another book on the topic that I have, but I haven't read it yet, is "The Land Along the River: The Ongoing Saga of the Sioux Nation Land Claim 1851-2012."

I think my library is going to expand exponentially as this moves forward.-LOL
Have read "Dammed Indians", as well as several other books.

Pretty much a requirement of my job. :lol:
Yeah, figured that is your world. LOL-I still want to find that quote though.

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Re: Stay Tuned for "The Smoke of the Sioux"

#7 Post by Spock » Mon Mar 19, 2018 3:59 pm

Next up:

"If They Are Hungry, Let Them Eat S..t!!!!!!"

https://thesmokeofthesioux.blogspot.com ... -shit.html

I think I have 2 more brewing in the hopper. Part of the fun is trying to figure out where to go next.

The Smoke of Africa was(is) mainly a simple chronological project. The Smoke of the Sioux will by necessity jump around geographically and chronologically.

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#8 Post by Spock » Mon Mar 19, 2018 5:46 pm

Next up:

"The First Existential War the Sioux Lost."

https://thesmokeofthesioux.blogspot.com ... -lost.html

And the blog itself:

https://thesmokeofthesioux.blogspot.com/

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#9 Post by Spock » Mon Mar 19, 2018 8:50 pm

Next up:

"Some Treaty Lines and Maps"

https://thesmokeofthesioux.blogspot.com ... -maps.html

Trouble is now I have to start doing some research-LOL

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#10 Post by Spock » Tue Mar 20, 2018 12:08 pm

Next Up:

"The Hard Way to the Little Bighorn"

https://thesmokeofthesioux.blogspot.com ... ghorn.html

and the basic address:

https://thesmokeofthesioux.blogspot.com/

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Re: Stay Tuned for "The Smoke of the Sioux"

#11 Post by Spock » Wed Mar 21, 2018 10:07 pm

Kind of a fun coincidence.

The University of Minnesota Morris is only 15 miles away from where I live, I can see its wind turbines from my driveway.

The campus was originally an Indian Boarding School and the library has extensive archival Native American collections.

With spring, summer and fall being very busy on the farm, I could not look at anything there until next winter, but it might be fun to root around in there some next winter-

I love archival research.

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#13 Post by Spock » Tue Mar 27, 2018 10:28 am

Next Up:

North Dakota as the "Old West" Heart of Sioux History

https://thesmokeofthesioux.blogspot.com ... sioux.html

https://thesmokeofthesioux.blogspot.com/

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