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Language
  
English

Originally published
  
1977

Page count
  
224

Editor
  
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz


Pages
  
224

Author
  
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Genre
  
Non-fiction

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Media type
  
Print (Hardback, Paperback)

ISBN
  
978-0-8032-4483-2 (2013)

Similar
  
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz books, Non-fiction books

The Great Sioux Nation: Sitting in Judgment on America is a book edited by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, "An Oral History of the Sioux Nation and Its Struggle for Sovereignty", that documents the 1974 "Lincoln Treaty Hearing". Testimony produced during that hearing has been cited by the International Indian Treaty Council in advocating for Indigenous sovereignty and treaty rights, efforts which eventually saw the 2007 Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

The 'Lincoln Treaty Hearing' took place in December 1974, in a US District Court in Lincoln, Nebraska, as part of the long series of court proceedings which followed the 1973 Wounded Knee Siege. The court heard approximately 65 people during thirteen days and produced almost 3,000 pages of testimony. Among the activists and scholars who participated were Simon J. Ortiz, Vine Deloria, Jr., Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., Leonard Crow Dog, Russell Means, William S. Laughlin, Raymond J. DeMallie, Beatrice Medicine, Gladys Bissonette, Dennis Banks, and Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz. Judge Warren Keith Urbom presided.

The book was first published in 1977. A new edition in 2013 by the University of Nebraska Press contains a new foreword by Philip J. Deloria and a new introduction by Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz. This paperback edition has 232 pages and ISBN 978-0-8032-4483-2.

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