I gave my Antelope Woman her wise wildness

Museum exhibitions focusing on Native American history have long been curator controlled

Tracing the experiences of John Grayeagle

and social scientists

Through Dakota Eyes Pawnee I gave my Antelope Woman"This volume brings together an invaluable collection of vivid eyewitness accounts of the Minnesota Indian War of 1862 and its aftermath. Of greatest interest is the fact that all the narratives assembled here come from Dakota mixed bloods and full bloods. Speaking from a variety of viewpoints and enmeshed in complex webs of allegiances to Indian, white, and mixed blood kin, these witnesses testify not only to the terrible casualties they all