After ten years as a foreign and military policy lobbyist in Washington and four as director of an interfaith lobby, Gretchen Eick, moved to Kansas, earned a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Kansas and became Professor of History at Friends University. She was awarded two Fulbright Scholar awards, teaching in Latvia and Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), and a Fulbright Hays to South Africa. Her book on the civil rights movement—Dissent in Wichita: The Civil Right Movement in the Midwest, 1954-1972 (U of IL Press, 2001/2007) won three awards: The Richard Wentworth award from the University of Illinois as the best book in American history that press published over two years, the University of Kansas’ Hall Center Award for the best book by a Kansas author (the first time the award went to someone not teaching at K.U.), and the William Rockhill Nelson award for the best nonfiction book by a Kansas or Missouri author. The book resulted in two museum exhibits, a 2009 Telly Award-winning public television documentary about the first successful student-led sit-in, the 1958 Dockum Drug Store Sit-in in Wichita, and mention in the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture.

 

Gretchen Eich is an award winning author and professor of history at Friends University in Sichita, Kansas. She and her husband divide their year between Witchita and in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina(BiH), where they teach in the English Department of the Dzemal Bijedic University in Mostar, BiH.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface 
List of Illustrations 

PART 1
1 Beginnings 3
2 Retribution 
3 Lincoln’s “War of Races” and Dakota Conscientious Objectors 
4 Mis-Trials, Death Camps, Flight, Mass Execution, and Removal 
5 Refugees 

PART 2
6 Sky Farm, Western Massachusetts, and Homesteading in South Dakota 
7 Military Pacification, the Churches and Dakota Resistance 
8 Reunion 
9 The Black Hills and Little Big Horn 
10 Parallel Policies: The South and The West 
11 Nonviolent Forms of Resistance 
12 The Politics of Indian Policy 
13 Ghost Dance and Wounded Knee: 1890 

PART 3
14 The Consequences of Whistleblowing, a Pan-Indian Identity, and Lobbying Congress 
15 “Scholarship” and the New Racism 
16 Working for Pratt, at Crow Creek, and Writing

Endnotes 
Bibliography
About the Author