TY - BOOK AU - Utley,Robert M TI - The lance and the shield: the life and times of Sitting Bull / T2 - A John Macrae Book SN - 0805012745 PY - 1993/// CY - New York PB - Henry Holt and Company KW - Sitting Bull, KW - Dakota Indians KW - Biography KW - History KW - 19th century N1 - Includes bibliography and index N2 - A biography of Sitting Bull, the native American leader of the Lakota Sioux whose world centred on the buffalo migrations. Utley shows how Sitting Bull's people fought for control of the hunting grounds and resisted the full force of the US Government for 25 years, but unwittingly hastened their own downfall by the defeat of Custer ER -