Tragic encounters
Subtitle: the people's history of Native Americans
By: Page Smith
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 477
ISBN-13: 9781619025745
Subjects: Social life and customs; Indians of North America; History
Description: "This work is not offered in any sense as a history of the American Indians or even a comprehensive account of white-Indian relations. It is, rather, an effort to suggest the nature of that interchange, of its inherent drama and abiding human interest; and to trace the hold that Indian culture has had on the imagination of the European settlers who ventured to the part of the New World that became the United States"--
Table of contents: title: Early encounters; title: The American Revolution; title: Frontier warfare; title: Sullivan's Expedition; title: Sandusky; title: Indians and the new Nation; title: The Westering impulse; title: Lewis and Clark; title: The Indian Removal; title: Pushing westward; title: George Catlin; title: The Indians of the Southwest; title: Jedediah Smith; title: Osborne Russell; title: The Northwest; title: The Sand Creek Massacre; title: Postwar relations; title: War in the Southwest; title: Scattered campaigns; title: The end of the Indian Wars; title: After Wounded Knee.