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It Is a Good Day to Die
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It Is a Good Day to Die Hardcover - 1998

by Herman J. Viola; J. Viola Herman


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;;;;;;;; I was not sorry at all. I was a happy boy. Those white men had come to
kill our mothers and fathers and us, and it was our country (Black Elk, OglalaSioux). Known to generations of white Americans as Custer's Last Stand or the
Battle of Little Bighorn, it was, to the Plains Indians, the Battle of theGreasy Grass--a great, if short-lived victory against the whites who would soon
overrun their country and destroy their way of life. Now, for the first time ina book for children, the story of the Greasy Grass battle is told from the
Indian point of view, in a series of dramatic eyewitness vignettes. Assembledfrom the recollections of twelve Indian participants in the battle, the book is
divided into thirty brief chapters that, together, create a compellingnarrative of the battle and the events that preceded it: Sitting Bull's vision
of white soldiers falling into his camp like grasshoppers, Custer's impetuousadvance and attack, and finally, his dramatic defeat. An introduction and
epilogue provide the historical context and a chronology, bibliographic note, maps, and more than a dozen archival photographs make this an outstanding
curriculum item. The voices assembled here create a dramatic memorial to afabled event in the history of the American West.

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  • Title It Is a Good Day to Die
  • Author Herman J. Viola; J. Viola Herman
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 101
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1998-06
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780517709139 / 0517709139
  • Weight 0.81 lbs (0.37 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.33 x 6.24 x 0.51 in (23.70 x 15.85 x 1.30 cm)
  • Ages 10 to 16 years
  • Grade levels 5 - 11
  • Library of Congress subjects Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876, Dakota Indians - Wars, 1876
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98016477
  • Dewey Decimal Code 973.8
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