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  • Between the Floods

    A History of the Arikaras

    by Mark van de Logt ...
    Series series The Civilization of the American Indian Series
    The creation story of the Sahniš, or Arikara, people begins with a terrible flood, sent by the Great Chief Above to renew the world. Many generations later, another devastating flood nearly destroyed the Arikaras when the newly built Garrison Dam swamped the fertile land of the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota. Between the Floods tells the story of this powerful Great Plains nation from ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • War Party in Blue

    Pawnee Scouts in the U.S. Army

    by Mark van de Logt ...
    Between 1864 and 1877, during the height of the Plains Indian wars, Pawnee Indian scouts rendered invaluable service to the United States Army. They led missions deep into contested territory, tracked resisting bands, spearheaded attacks against enemy camps, and on more than one occasion saved American troops from disaster on the field of battle. In War Party in Blue, Mark van de Logt tells the ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Monsters of Contact

    Historical Trauma in Caddoan Oral Traditions

    by Mark van de Logt ...
    A murderous whirlwind, an evil child-abducting witch-woman, a masked cannibal, terrifying scalped men, a mysterious man-slaying flint creature: the oral tradition of the Caddoan Indians is alive with monsters. Whereas Western historical methods and interpretations relegate such beings to the realms of myth and fantasy, Mark van de Logt argues in Monsters of Contact that creatures found in the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • The Wild Frontier

    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

    $4.99 USD

  • 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

  • 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

  • Violent Encounters

    Interviews on Western Massacres

    by Deborah Lawrence, Jon Lawrence ...
    Merciless killing in the nineteenth-century American West, as this unusual book shows, was not as simple as depicted in dime novels and movie Westerns. The scholars interviewed here, experts on violence in the West, embrace a wide range of approaches and perspectives and challenge both traditional views of western expansion and politically correct ideologies.The Battle of the Little Big Horn, the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Northern Cheyenne Exodus in History and Memory

    by James N. Leiker, Ramon Powers ...
    The exodus of the Northern Cheyennes in 1878 and 1879, an attempt to flee from Indian Territory to their Montana homeland, is an important event in American Indian history. It is equally important in the history of towns like Oberlin, Kansas, where Cheyenne warriors killed more than forty settlers. The Cheyennes, in turn, suffered losses through violent encounters with the U.S. Army. More than a ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Mesa of Sorrows

    A History of the Awat'ovi Massacre

    by James F. Brooks ...
    A scrupulously researched investigation of the mysterious massacre of Hopi Indians at Awat'ovi, and the event's echo through American history.The Hopi community of Awat’ovi existed peacefully on Arizona’s Antelope Mesa for generations until one bleak morning in the fall of 1700—raiders from nearby Hopi villages descended on Awat’ovi, slaughtering their neighboring men, women, and children. While ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Comanches

    Lords of the South Plains

    by Ernest Wallace, E. Adamson Hoebel ...
    Series Book 34 - The Civilization of the American Indian Series
    The fierce bands of Comanche Indians, on the testimony of their contemporaries, both red and white, numbered some of the most splendid horsemen the world has ever produced. Often the terror of other tribes, who, on finding a Comanche footprint in the Western plains country, would turn and go in the other direction, they were indeed the Lords of the South Plains.For more than a century and a half, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Empire of the Summer Moon

    Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

    by S. C. Gwynne ...
    *Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award**A New York Times Notable Book**Winner of the Texas Book Award and the Oklahoma Book Award*This New York Times bestseller and stunning historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West “is nothing short of a revela... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Lakotas and the Black Hills

    The Struggle for Sacred Ground

    by Jeffrey Ostler ...
    The story of the Lakota Sioux's loss of their spiritual homelands and their remarkable legal battle to regain itThe Lakota Indians counted among their number some of the most famous Native Americans, including Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. Their homeland was in the magnificent Black Hills in South Dakota, where they found plentiful game and held religious ceremonies at charged locations like Devil ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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