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Author: Jeanne Williams
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 200
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the white man's treatment and forcible displacement of five Indian nations of the Southwest--the Comanche, Cheyenne, Apache, Navajo, and Cherokee.
Author: John Ehle
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2011-06-08
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 0307793834
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA sixth-generation North Carolinian, highly-acclaimed author John Ehle grew up on former Cherokee hunting grounds. His experience as an accomplished novelist, combined with his extensive, meticulous research, culminates in this moving tragedy rich with historical detail. The Cherokee are a proud, ancient civilization. For hundreds of years they believed themselves to be the "Principle People" residing at the center of the earth. But by the 18th century, some of their leaders believed it was necessary to adapt to European ways in order to survive. Those chiefs sealed the fate of their tribes in 1875 when they signed a treaty relinquishing their land east of the Mississippi in return for promises of wealth and better land. The U.S. government used the treaty to justify the eviction of the Cherokee nation in an exodus that the Cherokee will forever remember as the “trail where they cried.” The heroism and nobility of the Cherokee shine through this intricate story of American politics, ambition, and greed. B & W photographs
Author: Thurman Wilkins
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1989-07-01
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 9780806121888
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChronicles the rise of the Cherokee Nation and its rapid decline, focusing on the Ridge-Watie family and their experiences during the Cherokee removal.
Author: Hourly History
Publisher:
Published: 2019-12-23
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9781678872137
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscover the remarkable history of the Trail of Tears... In the early 1800s, the Five Civilized Tribes-the Cherokee, Seminole, Chickasaw, Muscogee-Creek, and Choctaw-were living in lands allocated to them by the United States government in present-day Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee. In general, the Native American people lived in peace with the increasing numbers of white settlers coming to these areas, though there were occasional conflicts as settlers took lands that belonged to the tribes. To many white Americans, the existence of these people in lands that could be used for the expansion of the United States was unacceptable, and many wanted the Native American to be removed and relocated to a new area, west of the Mississippi River which was not then of interest to settlers. In 1830, the administration of President Andrew Jackson signed into law a new piece of legislation, the Indian Removal Act, which gave the government the power to force these tribes to relocate to new lands in Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma. The forced relocations that followed have become known as the Trail of Tears. Some were conducted with extreme brutality, and many thousands of Native American people died as a direct result. Once they had been uprooted from their homelands, many tribes found themselves unable to continue with ways of life which they had followed for thousands of years, and the nature and character of Native American culture and society was forever changed. This is an account of the privations of these forced relocations and the indifference of the U.S. government and the majority of Americans to the suffering they caused to the Native American people. This is the story of the Trail of Tears. Discover a plethora of topics such as Settlers Move West Settlers Move West Andrew Jackson and the Indian Removal Act Creek Removal in 1834 Chickasaw Removal in 1837 Cherokee Removal in 1838 And much more! So if you want a concise and informative book on the Trail of Tears, simply scroll up and click the "Buy now" button for instant access!
Author: Dee Brown
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2012-10-23
Total Pages: 680
ISBN-13: 1453274146
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe “fascinating” #1 New York Times bestseller that awakened the world to the destruction of American Indians in the nineteenth-century West (The Wall Street Journal). First published in 1970, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee generated shockwaves with its frank and heartbreaking depiction of the systematic annihilation of American Indian tribes across the western frontier. In this nonfiction account, Dee Brown focuses on the betrayals, battles, and massacres suffered by American Indians between 1860 and 1890. He tells of the many tribes and their renowned chiefs—from Geronimo to Red Cloud, Sitting Bull to Crazy Horse—who struggled to combat the destruction of their people and culture. Forcefully written and meticulously researched, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee inspired a generation to take a second look at how the West was won. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Dee Brown including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.
Author: Andrea L. Rogers
Publisher: Stone Arch Books
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 113
ISBN-13: 1496587146
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is June first and twelve-year-old Mary does not really understand what is happening: she does not understand the hatred and greed of the white men who are forcing her Cherokee family out of their home in New Echota, Georgia, capital of the Cherokee Nation, and trying to steal what few things they are allowed to take with them, she does not understand why a soldier killed her grandfather--and she certainly does not understand how she, her sister, and her mother, are going to survive the 1000 mile trip to the lands west of the Mississippi.
Author: Georgina Gentry
Publisher: Zebra Books
Published: 2014-05-16
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 1420138235
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe award-winning author of To Seduce a Texan thrills readers once again with the unforgettable story of a love as wild and free as the American West. A BATTLE OF WILLS Spirited heiress Libbie Winters is horrified to find herself in the midst of an Apache rebellion—and amazed to discover that her captor, a scout named Cougar, is the same man who offered her his prized Apache Tears necklace a year before. And though she is promised in marriage to a vengeful cavalry officer, Libbie cannot forget her powerful attraction to the fearless Apache hero. A BLAZE OF PASSION Believing she has rejected his gift, Cougar’s heart is hardened toward the haughty white girl he now holds for ransom. Yet he cannot deny the desire this flame-haired beauty arouses in him, or the love he longs to give her. He knows it is impossible to hold the fiery woman whose spirit is as free as his own—unless Libbie makes the dangerous choice to embrace the passion burning between them . . . Praise for the writing of Georgina Gentry “Georgina has done it again.” —Madeline Baker, New York Times–bestselling author “Strongly crafted characters . . . Sizzling sexuality . . . What more can a reader yearn for?” —Rendezvous “You’ll sing the praises of Cheyenne Song. It’s Gentry’s best book yet!” —Janelle Taylor, New York Times–bestselling author
Author: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2023-10-03
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 0807013145
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew York Times Bestseller Now part of the HBO docuseries "Exterminate All the Brutes," written and directed by Raoul Peck Recipient of the American Book Award The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now, for the first time, acclaimed historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire. With growing support for movements such as the campaign to abolish Columbus Day and replace it with Indigenous Peoples’ Day and the Dakota Access Pipeline protest led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States is an essential resource providing historical threads that are crucial for understanding the present. In An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, Dunbar-Ortiz adroitly challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the Indigenous peoples was colonialist and designed to seize the territories of the original inhabitants, displacing or eliminating them. And as Dunbar-Ortiz reveals, this policy was praised in popular culture, through writers like James Fenimore Cooper and Walt Whitman, and in the highest offices of government and the military. Shockingly, as the genocidal policy reached its zenith under President Andrew Jackson, its ruthlessness was best articulated by US Army general Thomas S. Jesup, who, in 1836, wrote of the Seminoles: “The country can be rid of them only by exterminating them.” Spanning more than four hundred years, this classic bottom-up peoples’ history radically reframes US history and explodes the silences that have haunted our national narrative. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States is a 2015 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature.
Author: Suzan Shown Harjo
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
Published: 2014-09-30
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1588344789
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNation to Nation explores the promises, diplomacy, and betrayals involved in treaties and treaty making between the United States government and Native Nations. One side sought to own the riches of North America and the other struggled to hold on to traditional homelands and ways of life. The book reveals how the ideas of honor, fair dealings, good faith, rule of law, and peaceful relations between nations have been tested and challenged in historical and modern times. The book consistently demonstrates how and why centuries-old treaties remain living, relevant documents for both Natives and non-Natives in the 21st century.
Author: Janis Reams Hudson
Publisher: Diversion Books
Published: 2014-10-07
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 1626814562
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“A novel to savor, a feast of realism, authenticity, and most of all, the magic and healing powers of love. Make room for Janis Reams Hudson on your keeper shelf.” — Romantic Times To the Apaches, Daniella Blackwood was an adopted daughter, respected and cherished. To their shaman, the bold white streak in her hair made her special and her visions in the flames make her a woman of magic. Yet no magic could protect Daniella from the passion that sears her senses when she first meets Travis Colton. To Arizona rancher Travis Colton, the mysterious Daniella is his only chance at rescuing his son. Travis and his ten-year-old son were captured by a band of Cochise's warriors. Left for dead, Travis managed to make his way home, determined to do whatever it takes to get his son back. Travis and Daniella's quest together will take more than magic; it will take a passion neither is ready to handle.
