Dinosaurs and Indians

Fossils Collected From Sioux Lands: Who What When & Where.. Along With All Manner Of European-American Immigrants To North America’S Great Plains In The Nineteenth Century – Farmers Miners Gamblers Soldiers Trappers And Many Others – Came Hunters Of Dinosaur Bones. Word Had Reached Some Of American Archeology’S Best-Known Names That A Rich Trove Of Ancient Bones Lay On Sioux (Lakota Dakota And Nakota) Land. Paleontologists Including Othniel Charles Marsh (1831-1899) Pioneer Of American Vertebrate Paleontology May Have Been Illegally Trespassing While Exploring And Collecting Fossils On Indian Lands. The Search Was On And Soon Academic Reputations Were Being Built On Fossils Taken From Native Lands And Peoples Often Without Their Consent. These Fossil-Collecting Exploits Helped Build The Foundation For The Peabody Museum Of Yale University And Others As The Golden Age Of Paleontology Unfolded Using Fossil Resources Taken From Lakota Lands And Peoples. Lawrence W. Bradley Who Was Raised By An Oglala Lakota Stepfather Brings This Story To Life From A Native Point Of View. This Is Fascinating Reading Told The First Time As He Calls For “A New Concept Of Physical Geography” That “Exposes Indigenous Paleontology Resource Dispossession And Allows Paleontology To Conscientiously Advance Into The Twenty-First Century.” Bruce E. Johansen Jacob J. Isaacson University Research Professor School Of Communication And Native American Studies University Of Nebraska At Omaha Johansen Is The Author Of The Encyclopedia Of The American Indian Movement (Greenwood 2013) And Other Works.