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  • The Cherokee Nation in the Civil War

    by Clarissa W. Confer ...
    No one questions the horrific impact of the Civil War on America, but few realize its effect on American Indians. Residents of Indian Territory found the war especially devastating. Their homeland was beset not only by regular army operations but also by guerillas and bushwhackers. Complicating the situation even further, Cherokee men fought for the Union as well as the Confederacy and created ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Daily Life during the Indian Wars

    by Clarissa Confer ...
    Series series The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series
    This book takes an in-depth look at every aspect of American Indian life—food, dress, customs, and more—during the almost 300 years of conflict with Anglo-Americans.From the colonial period to the end of the 19th century, from King Phillip's war to the Wounded Knee Massacre, fighting between the American Indians and the U.S. government created upheaval in the everyday lives of American Indians, ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

  • Transnational Indians in the North American West

    Edited by Clarissa Confer, Andrae Marak, Laura Tuennerman ...
    Series series Connecting the Greater West Series
    This collection of eleven original essays goes beyond traditional, border-driven studies to place the histories of Native Americans, indigenous peoples, and First Nation peoples in a larger context than merely that of the dominant nation.As Transnational Indians in the North American West shows, transnationalism can be expressed in various ways. To some it can be based on dependency, so that the ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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    Atrocities During the American-Indian War from Jamestown Colony to Wounded Knee

    by William M. Osborn ...
    The real story of the ordeal experienced by both settlers and Indians during the Europeans' great migration west across America, from the colonies to California, has been almost completely eliminated from the histories we now read. In truth, it was a horrifying and appalling experience. Nothing like it had ever happened anywhere else in the world.In The Wild Frontier, William M. Osborn discusses ... Read more

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  • Lakota America

    A New History of Indigenous Power

    by Pekka Hv§mv§lv§inen ...
    Series series The Lamar Series in Western History
    The first comprehensive history of the Lakota Indians and their profound role in shaping America's history."Impressive. . . . Lakota America takes us from the sixteenth century to the present, with painstaking, carefully marshaled detail, but its real feat is in threading how the Lakota philosophy and vision of the world guided their reinventions and their dealings with colonial powers. . . . ... Read more

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  • "I Am a Man"

    Chief Standing Bear's Journey for Justice

    by Joe Starita ...
    The harrowing story of a Native American man's tragic loss of land and family, and his heroic journey to reclaim his humanity.In 1877, Chief Standing Bear's Ponca Indian tribe was forcibly removed from their Nebraska homeland and marched to what was then known as Indian Territory (now Oklahoma), in what became the tribe's own Trail of Tears. A third of the tribe died on the grueling march, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Gall: Lakota War Chief

    Lakota War Chief

    by Robert W. Larson ...
    Called the “Fighting Cock of the Sioux” by U.S. soldiers, Hunkpapa warrior Gall was a great Lakota chief who, along with Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, resisted efforts by the U.S. government to annex the Black Hills. It was Gall, enraged by the slaughter of his family, who led the charge across Medicine Tail Ford to attack Custer’s main forces on the other side of the Little Bighorn.Robert W. ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Tecumseh

    Shooting Star, Crouching Panther

    by Jim Poling Sr. ...
    Shawnee war chief Tecumseh dedicated his life to stopping American expansion and preserving the lands and cultures of North American Aboriginal peoples. He travelled relentlessly trying to build a confederation of tribes that would stop the territorial ambitions of the newly created United States of America.Tecumseh tried both diplomacy and battle to preserve his Ohio Valley homelands. When he ... Read more

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  • The Last Indian War:The Nez Perce Story

    The Nez Perce Story

    by Elliott West ...
    Series series Pivotal Moments in American History
    This newest volume in Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments series offers an unforgettable portrait of the Nez Perce War of 1877, the last great Indian conflict in American history. It was, as Elliott West shows, a tale of courage and ingenuity, of desperate struggle and shattered hope, of short-sighted government action and a doomed flight to freedom.To tell the story, West begins with the early ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • Rising Up from Indian Country

    The Battle of Fort Dearborn and the Birth of Chicago

    by Ann Durkin Keating ...
    " S ets the record straight about the War of 1812's Battle of Fort Dearborn and its significance to early Chicago's evolution . . . informative, ambitious" ( Publishers Weekly).In August 1812, Capt. Nathan Heald began the evacuation of ninety-four people from the isolated outpost of Fort Dearborn. After traveling only a mile and a half, they were attacked by five hundred Potawatomi warriors, who ... Read more

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  • The Element Encyclopedia of Native Americans

    An A to Z of Tribes, Culture, and History

    by Adele Nozedar ...
    A comprehensive guide to the history, culture, and religious beliefs and practices of America’s native people, The Element Encyclopedia of Native Americans tells the varied and colourful stories of the tribes, their greatest leaders, wars, pacts, and the long-lasting impact that their profound wisdom and spirituality has on the West today.Containing a fascinating and comprehensive list of A-Z ... Read more

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  • The Wisconsin Frontier

    by Mark Wyman ...
    This "highly readable, balanced account [tells] a fascinating story of the gains and perils, ebbs and flows that characterize the American frontier saga" (Western Historical Quarterly).From seventeenth-century French coureurs de bois to lumberjacks of the nineteenth century, Wisconsin's frontier era saw thousands of settlers arriving from Europe and other areas to seek wealth and opportunity. As ... Read more

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