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  • Kenekuk the Kickapoo Prophet

    Most of the Indians whose names we remember were warriors—Tecumseh, Black Hawk, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Geronimo—men who led their people in a desperate defense of their lands and their way of life. But as Alvin Josephy has written, “Some of the Indians’ greatest patriots died unsung by white men, and because their peoples were also obliterated, or almost so, their names are forgotten.”Kenekuk ... Leer más

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  • The Enduring Indians of Kansas

    A Century and a Half of Acculturation

    The Cherokees’ “Trail of Tears” and the forced migration of other Southern tribes during the 1830s and 1840s were the most notorious consequences of Andrew Jackson’s Indian removal policy. Less well known is the fact that many tribes of the Old Northwest territory were also forced to surrender their lands and move west of the Mississippi River.By 1850, upwards of 10,000 displaced Indians had been ... Leer más

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  • Unsettled Ground

    The Whitman Massacre and Its Shifting Legacy in the American West

    **"By turns moving, evenhanded and lyrical in its evocation of time and place."—**Seattle TimesIn this rigorously researched and incisively written account, historian and journalist Cassandra Tate challenges generations of received wisdom about the 1847 killing of Marcus and Narcissa Whitman and eleven others at their Presbyterian mission on Cayuse land near present-day Walla Walla.Far from a ... Leer más

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  • Savages & Scoundrels

    The Untold Story of America's Road to Empire through Indian Territory

    The author of Coyote Warrior demolishes myths about America's westward expansion and uncovers the federal Indian policy that shaped the republic.What really happened in the early days of our nation? How was it possible for white settlers to march across the entire continent, inexorably claiming Native American lands for themselves? Who made it happen, and why? This gripping book tells America's ... Leer más

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  • Murder at the Mission

    A Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American West

    de Blaine Harden ...
    **Finalist for the 2022 Will Rogers Medallion Award“Terrific.” –Timothy Egan, The New York Times****“A riveting investigation of both American myth-making and the real history that lies beneath.” *–*Claudio Saunt,author of Unworthy RepublicFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Escape From Camp 14, a “terrifically readable” (Los Angeles Times) account of one of the most persistent ... Leer más

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  • The Wisconsin Frontier

    de Mark Wyman ...
    This "highly readable, balanced account [tells] a fascinating story of the gains and perils, ebbs and flows that characterize the American frontier saga" (Western Historical Quarterly).From seventeenth-century French coureurs de bois to lumberjacks of the nineteenth century, Wisconsin's frontier era saw thousands of settlers arriving from Europe and other areas to seek wealth and opportunity. As ... Leer más

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  • Iroquois Diplomacy on the Early American Frontier

    The newest addition to the Penguin Library of American Indian History explores the most influential Native American ConfederacyMore than perhaps any other Native American group, the Iroquois found it to their advantage to interact with and adapt to white settlers. Despite being known as fierce warriors, the Iroquois were just as reliant on political prowess and sophisticated diplomacy to maintain ... Leer más

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  • Lincoln's Bishop

    A President, A Priest, and the Fate of 300 Dakota Sioux Warriors

    A history of the Dakota War of 1862, an Episcopal bishop, and his campaign to protect the lives of the Dakota Sioux.It is hard to recall what powerful moral voices Protestant church leaders had in the formative years of the nation. Gustav Niebuhr travels back to the Minnesota frontier of 1862 when Dakota Sioux rose up against pioneering families and slaughtered hundreds. Citizens demanded mass ... Leer más

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  • The Shawnees and the War for America

    With the courage and resilience embodied by their legendary leader Tecumseh, the Shawnees waged a war of territorial and cultural resistance for half a century. Noted historian Colin G. Calloway details the political and legal battles and the bloody fighting on both sides for possession of the Shawnees? land, while imbuing historical figures such as warrior chief Tecumseh, Daniel Boone, and Andrew ... Leer más

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  • Born of Lakes and Plains

    Mixed-Descent Peoples and the Making of the American West

    de Anne F. Hyde ...
    **Finalist for the 2023 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize"Immersive and humane." —Jennifer Szalai, New York TimesA fresh history of the West grounded in the lives of mixed-descent Native families who first bridged and then collided with racial boundaries.**Often overlooked, there is mixed blood at the heart of America. And at the heart of Native life for centuries there were ... Leer más

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  • The Relentless Business of Treaties

    How Indigenous Land Became U.S. Property

    de Martin Case ...
    The story of "western expansion" is a familiar one: U.S. government agents, through duplicity and force, persuaded Native Americans to sign treaties that gave away their rights to the land. But this framing, argues Martin Case, hides a deeper story. Land cession treaties were essentially the act of supplanting indigenous kinship relationships to the land with a property relationship. And property ... Leer más

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  • Northern Slave Black Dakota

    The Life and Times of Joseph Godfrey

    de Bachman, Walt ...
    Born a slave in free territory, Joseph Godfrey died widely reviled for his controversial role in the U.S. Dakota War of 1862. Separated from his mother at age five when his master sold her, Joseph Godfrey was kept in bondage in Minnesota to serve the fur - trade elite. To escape his masters' beatings and abuse, he sought refuge in his teens among the Dakota people he'd befriended as a child slave. ... Leer más

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