Book
Tragic encounters : the people's history of Native Americans
Publication Information
Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint, [2015]
Physical Description
xii, 477 pages ; 24 cm
Summary
"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"--
Contents
- Early encounters
- The American Revolution
- Frontier warfare
- Sullivan's Expedition
- Sandusky
- Indians and the new Nation
- The Westering impulse
- Lewis and Clark
- The Indian Removal
- Pushing westward
- George Catlin
- The Indians of the Southwest
- Jedediah Smith
- Osborne Russell
- The Northwest
- The Sand Creek Massacre
- Postwar relations
- War in the Southwest
- Scattered campaigns
- The end of the Indian Wars
- After Wounded Knee.