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Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Between 1846 and 1873, California's Indian population plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. Benjamin Madley is the first historian to uncover the full extent of the slaughter, the involvement of state and federal officials, the taxpayer dollars that supported the violence, indigenous resistance, who did the killing, and why the killings ended. This deeply researched book is a comprehensive and chilling history of an American genocide. Madley describes...
Author
Series
Publisher
Mason Crest Publishers
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This book describes the actions of the U.S. government, military, and citizens toward Native Americans as the United States grew from a small collection of colonies to a world power.
Author
Publisher
Westholme Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The book chronicles the history of Ohio's Indians and their interactions with settlers and U.S. agents in the years leading up to their official removal, and sheds light on the complexities of the process, with both individual tribes and the United States taking advantage of opportunities at different times. It is also the story of how the native tribes tried to come to terms with the fast pace of change on America's western frontier and the inevitable...
Author
Series
Publisher
Omnigraphics
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Analyzes the development of Indian removal policies and the tragedy at Wounded Knee, the 1890 massacre of American Indians by U.S. Cavalry troops. Examines the wider context of Indian-white relations in America. Features include a narrative overview, biographies, primary sources, chronology, glossary, bibliography, and index"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Trail of tears : Cherokee legacy: Documents the forced removal in 1838 of the Cherokee Nation from the southeastern United States to Oklahoma. Shows the suffering endured by the Cherokees as they lost their land and the difficult conditions they endured on the trail. Describes how thousands of Cherokees died during the Trail of Tears, nearly a quarter of the nation, including most of their children and elders.
Black Indians: Explores issues of racial...
15) 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...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Lexile measure
1180L
Language
English
Description
Five decades after the Revolutionary War, the United States approached a constitutional crisis. At its center stood two former military comrades locked in a struggle that tested the boundaries of our fledgling democracy. One man we recognize: Andrew Jackson--war hero, populist, and exemplar of the expanding South--whose first major initiative as President instigated the massive expulsion of Native Americans known as the Trail of Tears. The other is...