Native Americana from I Cannot Live Without Books

A Brave and Cunning Prince: The Great Chief Opechancanough and the War for America by James Horn In the mid-sixteenth century, Spanish explorers in the Chesapeake Bay kidnapped an Indian youth, took him back to Spain, and subsequently to Mexico. During his time abroad, the boy lived in Madrid, Seville, Havana, and Mexico City, becoming a favorite of King Philip II… Saber más sobre este artículo

The Last Sovereigns: Sitting Bull & the Resistance of the Free Lakotas by Robert M. Utley The Last Sovereigns is the story of how Sioux chief Sitting Bull resisted the white man's ways as a last best hope for the survival of an indigenous way of life on the Great Plains -- a nomadic life based on buffalo and indigenous plants… Saber más sobre este artículo

The Long Journey of the Nez Perce: A Battle History from Cottonwood to Bear Paw by Kevin Carson In 1877, the U.S. Government opened the Nez Perce lands in Oregon to settlers and ordered the tribe to move to a reservation in Idaho Territory. Although reluctant to leave their homeland, the Nez Perce began the long trek eastward. A small band… Saber más sobre este artículo

Murder at the Mission: A Frontier Killing, It's Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American West by Blaine Harden In 1847, the missionary Dr. Marcus Whitman, his wife, and eleven others were killed by members of the Cayuse tribe near present-day Walla Walla, Washington. A final response to years of Cayuse frustration with the Whitmans, the event recorded in… Saber más sobre este artículo

The Earth Is All That Lasts: Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and the Last Stand of the Great Sioux Nation by Mark Lee Gardner Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull: Their names are iconic, their significance in American history undeniable. Together, these two Lakota chiefs, one a fabled warrior and the other a revered holy man, crushed George Armstrong Custer's vaunted Seventh Cavalry.… Saber más sobre este artículo

Thieves' Road: The Black Hills Betrayal and Custer's Path to Little Bighorn by Terry Mort In the summer of 1874, Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer led an expedition of some one thousand troops and more than one hundred wagons into the Black Hills of South Dakota. This colorful narrative history tells the little-known story of this exploratory mission and reveals… Saber más sobre este artículo

Tecumseh & Brock: The War of 1812 by James Laxer At the dawn of the nineteenth century, the British Empire is engaged in a titanic war with Napoleonic France for global supremacy. The American Republic is quickly expanding its territory along the western frontier, while native peoples struggle to protect their lands from the relentless wave of new settlers. Bestselling author and… Saber más sobre este artículo

The Red Man's Bones: George Catlin, Artist and Showman by Benita Eisler THERE IS A BLACK "CLOSEOUT/REMAINDER" MARK ON THE BOTTOM PAGE EDGES. George Catlin (1796 - 1872) has been called the "first artist of the West," as none before him lived among and painted the Native American tribes of the Northern Plains. After a false start as a painter of… Saber más sobre este artículo

The Last Campaign: Sherman, Geronimo, and the War for America by H.W. Brands In its history, the United States government fought many battles for control of the American continent, the longest being its war against the Native American tribes. In the years after the Civil War, when the construction of the transcontinental railroads made a unified nation a real possibility, pressure… Saber más sobre este artículo

Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America by Nicole Eustace On the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the distant summer of 17622, two white fur traders attacked an Indigenous hunter and left him for dead near Conestoga, Pennsylvania. Though virtually forgotten today, this act of brutality set… Saber más sobre este artículo

Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America by David J. Silverman The adoption of firearms by American Indians between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries marked a turning point in the history of North America's indigenous peoples -- a cultural earthquake so profound, says David Silverman, that its impact has yet to be adequately measured. Thundersticks reframes our understanding of… Saber más sobre este artículo

Uncommon Defense: Indian Allies in the Black Hawk War by John W. Hall In the spring of 1832, when the Indian warrior Black Hawk and a thousand followers marched into Illinois to reoccupy lands earlier ceded to American settlers, the U.S. Army turned to rival tribes for military support. Elements of the Menominee, Dakota, Potawatomi, and Ho Chunk tribes willingly allied… Saber más sobre este artículo

Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War by Daniel J. Sharfstein Oliver Otis Howard thought he was a man of destiny. Chosen to lead the Freedmen's Bureau after the Civil War, the Union Army general was entrusted with the era's most crucial task: helping millions of former slaves claim the rights of citizens. He… Saber más sobre este artículo

Cheyenne Summer: The Battle of Beecher Island -- A History by Terry Mort In September 1868, the undermanned United States Army was struggling to address attacks by Cheyenne and Sioux warriors against the Kansas settlements, the stagecoach routes, and the transcontinental railroad. General Sheridan hired fifty frontiersmen and scouts to supplement the limited forces at his disposal. He placed them under… Saber más sobre este artículo