Edition |
Bantam ed. |
Description |
xii, 458 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, music, portraits ; 18 cm |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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Audience |
7 and up. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-445) and index. |
Contents |
"Their manners are decorous and praiseworthy" -- The long walk of the Navahos -- Little Crow's war -- War comes to the Cheyennes -- Powder River invasion -- Red Cloud's war -- "The only good Indian is a dead Indian" -- The rise and fall of Donehogawa -- Cochise and the Apache guerrillas -- The ordeal of Captain Jack -- The war to save the buffalo -- The war for the Black Hills -- The flight of the Nez Perces -- Cheyenne exodus -- Standing Bear becomes a person -- "The Utes must go!" -- The last of the Apaches chiefs -- Dance of the ghosts -- Wounded Knee. |
Summary |
"First published in 1970, this extraordinary book changed the way people thought about the original inhabitants of America. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos in 1860 and ending 30 years later with the massacre of Sioux men, women, and children at Wounded Knee in South Dakota, it tells how the American Indians lost their land and lives to a dynamically expanding white society. During these three decades, America's population doubled from 31 million to 62 million. Again and again, promises made to the Indians fell victim to the ruthlessness and greed of settlers pushing westward to make new lives. The Indians were herded off their ancestral lands into ever-shrinking reservations, and were starved and killed if they resisted. It is a truism that 'history is written by the victors'; for the first time, this book described the opening of the West from the Indians' viewpoint. Accustomed to stereotypes of Indians as red savages, many white people were shocked to read the reasoned eloquence of Indian leaders and learn of the bravery with which they and their peoples endured suffering. With meticulous research and in measured language overlaying brutal narrative, Dee Brown focused attention on a national disgrace."--Pub. desc. (other ed.). |
Subject |
Indians of North America -- Wars -- West (U.S.)
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Indians of North America -- West (U.S.)
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West (U.S.) -- History.
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Indians of North America. (OCoLC)fst00969633
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Indians of North America -- Wars.
(OCoLC)fst00969954
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West United States. (OCoLC)fst01243255
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Indians of North America -- History.
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Indians of North America -- Wars.
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West (U.S.) -- History.
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Indians of North America -- History.
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Indians of North America -- Wars.
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West (U.S.) -- History.
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Genre/Form |
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Fiction.
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