Terrible Justice: Sioux Chiefs and U.S. Soldiers on the Upper Missouri, 1854 ... - Doreen Chaky - Google Books

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They called themselves Dakota, but the explorers and fur traders who first encountered these people in the sixteenth century referred to them as Sioux, a corruption of the name their enemies called them. That linguistic dissonance foreshadowed a series of…