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Inkpaduta (Nonfiction)

by | Mar 3, 2009 | Western Books

Paul N. Beck, University of Oklahoma Press, $24.95, Hardcover.
Egad! This is an annoying book; half-good and half-bad. Beck does not exactly coat the Santee chief with whitewash, but he asks us to “redeem” him. Beck correctly deplores the hysterical demonizing of Inkpaduta by later historians (like Doane Robinson). The chief was blamed for many atrocities committed by other Indians, mainly because he remained at large f


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