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Publisher
W W Norton & Co Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
This nation's history and self-understanding have long depended on the notion of a colonial America, an epoch that supposedly laid the foundation for the modern United States. In Indigenous Continent, Pekka Hamalainen overturns the traditional, Eurocentric narrative, demonstrating that, far from being weak and helpless victims of European colonialism, Indigenous peoples controlled North America well into the 19th century. From the Iroquois and Pueblos...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kidhaven Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discusses the forced relocation of American Indian tribes by the American government, resulting in tribal warfare, broken treaties, and the brutal march known as the Trail of Tears.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Too often, Native American history is treated as a finished chapter instead of relevant and ongoing. This companion book to the award-winning We Are Grateful: Otsaliheliga offers readers everything they never learned in school about Native American people's past, present, and future. Precise, lyrical writing presents topics including: forced assimilation (such as boarding schools), land allotment and Native tribal reorganization, termination (the...
Author
Series
The civilization of the American Indian volume 254
Publisher
University of Oklahoma
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
San Francisco, CA
Pub. Date
Viz Media LLC
Language
English
Description
"In the near future, the federal government creates a committee to rid society of books it deems unsuitable. The libraries vow to protect their collections, and with the help of local governments, form a military group to defend themselves--the Library Forces. In this volume: Iku Kasahara and her fellow Library Forces team members are involved in a fierce skirmish in which several ranking officers are severely injured. The damage is far reaching,...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The bloody Battle of Tippecanoe was only the beginning. It's 1811 and President James Madison has ordered the destruction of Shawnee warrior chief Tecumseh's alliance of tribes in the Great Lakes region. But while General William Henry Harrison would win this fight, the armed conflict between Native Americans and the newly formed United States would rage on for decades. Bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard venture through the fraught...
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Language
English
Formats
Description
According to award-winning journalist and historian Colin Woodard, North America is made up of eleven distinct nations, each with its own unique historical roots. ...He takes readers on a journey through the history of our fractured continent, offering a revolutionary and revelatory take on American identity, and how the conflicts between them have shaped our past and continue to mold our future. From the Deep South to the Far West, to Yankeedom to...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"An authoritative, sweeping, and fresh new biography of the nation's first president, Colin G. Calloway's book reveals fully the dimensions and depths of George Washington's relations with the First Americans."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
RANDOM HOUSE
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Oak Flat is a serene high-elevation mesa that sits above the southeastern Arizona desert, fifteen miles to the west of the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation. For the San Carlos tribe, Oak Flat is a holy place, an ancient burial ground and religious site where Apache girls celebrate the coming-of-age ritual known as the Sunrise Ceremony. In 1995, a massive untapped copper reserve was discovered nearby. A decade later, a law was passed transferring...
19) Canaan: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This sequel to Donald McCaig's award-winning Civil War novel Jacob's Ladder delivers a gripping saga of Reconstruction America from Lee's 1865 surrender at Appomattox to Custer's 1876 massacre at Little Big Horn. McCaig follows the changing fortunes of a diverse ensemble of characters, including Edward, a wartime top sergeant for the 38th Regiment, U.S. Colored Troops. Travelling west as a scout, trail cook, cattle driver, and sharpshooter, he marries...
20) The three-cornered war: the Union, the Confederacy, and native peoples in the fight for the West
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A deeply-researched, dramatic, and character-driven narrative account of the violent struggle between Union and Confederate forces to claim the American West during the Civil War--
A dramatic, riveting, and deeply researched narrative account of the epic struggle for the West during the Civil War, revealing a little-known, vastly important episode in American history. In The Three-Cornered War Megan Kate Nelson reveals the fascinating history of...
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