a different alternative history
newspaper_rock discusses a book called The Indians Won, a novel written in 1970 by Martin Cruz Smith (who was apparently part Pueblo?). The basic premise is that after Custer's defeat,
the Lakota and Cheyenne had not broken up into traditional hunting bands that winter. Financed by a group of European investors, who were resentful of rising U.S. influence, the united tribal front was supplied with weapons, canned foods, and blankets. Secure in their unity, they stayed together to meet and defeat avenging waves of U.S. troops.
With the world’s attention on them, the Sioux/Cheyenne/Arapaho forces appealed to tribes throughout the country, which brought together a massive united front, forcing the U.S. to sue for peace -- on the Indians’ terms. This leads to the founding of an Indian nation on the Great Plains, the entire center of the U.S. from Mexico to Canada. The United Indian nation had urban industrial and economic centers, but maintained the rest of their country free of development for their traditional lifeways. Ultimately they developed “the Bomb,” and used it effectively as a deterrent.
Anyone read this?
the Lakota and Cheyenne had not broken up into traditional hunting bands that winter. Financed by a group of European investors, who were resentful of rising U.S. influence, the united tribal front was supplied with weapons, canned foods, and blankets. Secure in their unity, they stayed together to meet and defeat avenging waves of U.S. troops.
With the world’s attention on them, the Sioux/Cheyenne/Arapaho forces appealed to tribes throughout the country, which brought together a massive united front, forcing the U.S. to sue for peace -- on the Indians’ terms. This leads to the founding of an Indian nation on the Great Plains, the entire center of the U.S. from Mexico to Canada. The United Indian nation had urban industrial and economic centers, but maintained the rest of their country free of development for their traditional lifeways. Ultimately they developed “the Bomb,” and used it effectively as a deterrent.
Anyone read this?