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1) In the spirit of Crazy Horse

Author

Matthiessen, Peter

Language

English

2) Killing Crazy Horse: the merciless Indian wars in America

Author

O'Reilly, Bill

Series

Killing

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print

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The authors of Killing the SS document the fraught history of America's founding on previously occupied lands, covering events ranging from the presidential ordered destruction of Tecumseh's alliance of tribes to the Trail of Tears.

3) Custer died for your sins: an Indian manifesto

Author

Deloria, Vine

Language

English

4) A Sioux chronicle

Author

Hyde, George E

Language

English

5) Land of the spotted eagle

Author

Standing Bear, Luther

Language

English

6) Behind the trail of broken treaties: an Indian declaration of independence

Author

Deloria, Vine

Pub. Date

[1974]

Language

English

Description

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Historical review of Indian political recognition and land title with respect to other nations.

7) Trails of tears: American Indians driven from their lands

Author

Williams, Jeanne

Language

English

Description

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Describes the white man's treatment and forcible displacement of five Indian nations of the Southwest--the Comanche, Cheyenne, Apache, Navajo, and Cherokee.

8) The new Trail of Tears: how Washington is destroying American Indians

Author

Riley, Naomi Schaefer

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

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If you want to know why American Indians have the highest rates of poverty of any racial group, why suicide is the leading cause of death among Indian men, why native women are two and a half times more likely to be raped than the national average and why gang violence affects American Indian youth more than any other group, do not look to history. There is no doubt that white settlers devastated Indian communities in the 19th, and early 20th centuries.

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9) The western American Indian: case studies in tribal history

Author

Ellis, Richard N

Series

A Bison book volume BB548

Pub. Date

[1972]

Language

English

10) States and tribes: building new traditions

Pub. Date

c1995

Language

English

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A broad examination of the condition of state-tribal relations and opportunities for mutually beneficial cooperation as the 21st century approaches, from a state legislative policy perspective.

11) Diplomats in buckskins: a history of Indian delegations in Washington City

Author

Viola, Herman J

Pub. Date

c1995

Language

English

12) Custer Died for your Sins: /An Indian Manifesto

Author

Deloria Jr., Vine

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook

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Standing Rock Sioux activist, professor, and attorney Vine Deloria, Jr., shares his thoughts about U.S. race relations, federal bureaucracies, Christian churches, and social scientists in a collection of eleven eye-opening essays infused with humor. This "manifesto" provides valuable insights on American Indian history, Native American culture, and context for minority protest movements mobilizing across the country throughout the 1960s and early...

13) Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophecy to the Present, 1492-2000

Pub. Date

1999

Language

English

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" ... Anthropologist Peter Nabokov presents a history of Native American and white relations as seen through Indian eyes and told through Indian voices: a record spanning more than five hundred years of interchange between the two peoples."--Back cover.

14) The great father: the United States government and the American Indians

Author

Prucha, Francis Paul

Pub. Date

[1986]

Language

English

Description

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Traces the history of the United States' relations with Native American tribes over two centuries from the 1700s to 1980, and examines the creation of federal Indian policy.

15) Sioux country: a history of Indian-white relations : a custom textbook

Author

Hoover, Herbert T

Pub. Date

Language

English

16) The last days of the Sioux Nation

Author

Utley, Robert Marshall

Pub. Date

1963

Language

English

Formats

Book, South Dakota Books

17) A final promise: the campaign to assimilate the Indians, 1880-1920

Author

Hoxie, Frederick E

Pub. Date

[2001]

Language

English

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"This is an important book. In the latter nineteenth century, diverse and influential elements in white America combined forces to settle the 'Indian question' through assimilation. . . . The results were the essentially treaty-breaking Dawes Act of 1887, related legislation, and dubious court decisions. Schoolteachers and missionaries were dispatched to the reservations en masse. Eventual 'citizenship' without functional rights was given Native Americans;...