North American Indian wars /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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San Diego, Calif. :
Greenhaven Press,
[1999]
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| Series: | Turning points (Greenhaven Press)
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Table of Contents:
- DIFFERENT CULTURES WITH DIFFERENT VISIONS: Cultural differences lead to misconceptions and conflict / Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.
- Why White Americans had difficulty understanding Indian religion / George E. Tinker
- Less advanced economy and technology placed Indians at a disadvantage / Arrell M. Gibson
- Manifest destiny: The U.S. vision of expansion / James W. Davidson et al.
- Indian unity: a lost chance for survival / Richard White
- CRUCIAL CONFRONTATIONS BETWEEN INDIANS AND WHITES: The first battles between the United States and the Indians / John Tebbel and Keith Jennison
- A last gamble against steep odds: the Black Hawk War / Robert M. Utley and Wilcomb E. Washburn
- Custer and the conquest of the Sioux / Royal B. Hassrick
- The tragic flight of the Nez Perce / J. Jay Myers
- U.S. subjugatiion of the Apache and Navajo / Edward H. Spicer
- The Ghost Dance and Wounded Knee Massacre / Dee Brown
- THE DISASTROUS IMPACT OF WHITE CONQUEST: Whites exploited native cultures and natural resources / Wilber R. Jacobs
- The tactics and impact of Indian removal and relocation / Peter Farb
- Slaughter of the Buffalo, livelihood of the Plains tribes / Stephen Longstreet
- Indian cultures decimated by alcoholism and disease / Brian W. Dippie
- White efforts to Christianize Native Americans / Robert F. Berkhofer
- EPILOGUE: LEGACY OF THE INDIAN WARS: Assimilation versus self-determination: American Indians in the Twentieth Century / Carl Waldman.