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Woman Walking Ahead
In Search of Catherine Weldon and Sitting Bull
by Eileen Pollack

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• Format: hardcover, 360 pages
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Awards: WILLA Literary Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2003)
• Author: Eileen Pollack
• Genres: history, biography
• Release date: August 14, 2002
• ISBN: 9780826328441 (082632844X)
• Language: english

About The Book

This book restores a little-known advocate of Indian rights to her place in history. In June 1889, a widowed Brooklyn artist named Catherine Weldon travelled to the Standing Rock Reservation in Dakota Territory to help Sitting Bull hold onto land that the government was trying to wrest from his people. Since the Sioux chieftain could neither read nor write English, he welcomed the white woman’s offer to act as his secretary and lobbyist. Her efforts were counterproductive; she was ordered to leave the reservation, and the Standing Rock Sioux were bullied into signing away their land. But she returned with her teen-age son, settling at Sitting Bull’s camp on the Grand River. In recognition of her unusual qualities, Sitting Bull’s people called her Toka heya mani win, ‘Woman Walking Ahead’. Predictably, the press vilified Weldon, calling her ‘Sitting Bull’s white squaw’ and accusing her of inciting Sitting Bull to join the Ghost Dance religion then sweeping the West. In fact, Weldon opposed the movement, arguing that the army would use the Ghost dance as an excuse to jail or kill Sitting Bull. Unfortunately she was right.

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