Peter Iverson

 
 
 
 
Peter Iverson certainly knows what happened at the Battle of Little Big Horn Battle. It was one of the last great battles in the centuries-long war between different American Indian nations and European-Americans. The Sioux won that battle, of course, brining death and ignominy to General Custer and the Seventh Cavalry. But is also led to the 1890 massacre of Sioux men, women and children at Wounded Knee, which was the final battle in the four-centuries-long war between the indigenes of North America and those settlers who came later. These two battles - one last stand by brave but hopelessly outnumber people and then their final slaughter - are often presented as the final chapter in the story of how the first peoples of what would become the United States were vanquished.

But while Iverson understands the importance - in both symbolic as well real historical, strategic terms - of these two battles, he does not think that they are quite as important as other scholars have argued because in focusing on these battles, traditional histories of Native Americans (as well as traditional stori


     
 
 
 
    

 

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