BETWEEN TWO FIRES
Subtitle: American Indians in the Civil War
Publisher: Free Press
Published: December 17, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780684826684
Subjects: Native American; History - Military / War; History: American; Military - General; United States - Civil War; American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Civil war; Cultural studies; History / General; USA; c 1800 to c 1900
First sentence: IN 1867, TWO YEARS AFTER THE CIVIL WAR, THE COMMISSIONER OF Indian affairs wrote in his annual report: "... this benevolent and bounteous government [United States] has from the onset accorded to them [Indians] rights and possessions, and extended over them a paternal care which is most simply and admirably acknowledged in their appellation which styles the government 'the great father.'"