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The Native American Experience

Dee Brown

What did the conquest of the American West look like to the Native peoples who lived through it, from the Long Walk to Wounded Knee?

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At a glance

Author
Dee Brown

Why read it

  • You will see the Indian wars from the side of the Navahos, Cheyennes, Apaches and Sioux rather than the settlers
  • You will understand how the drive for land, from the Powder River to the Black Hills, set off war after war with the tribes
  • You will learn the chain of events from the Ghost Dance to the massacre at Wounded Knee

Who it is for

  • A reader of American history who wants Native perspectives
  • A student studying treaties, wars and reservation life
  • A teacher seeking a classic account of the Indian wars

Contents

  1. Preface
  2. Introduction
  3. ONE
  4. “Their Manners Are Decorous and Praiseworthy”
  5. TWO
  6. The Long Walk of the Navahos
  7. THREE
  8. Little Crow’s War
  9. FOUR
  10. War Comes to the Cheyennes
  11. FIVE
  12. Powder River Invasion
  13. SIX
  14. Red Cloud’s War
  15. SEVEN
  16. “The Only Good Indian Is a Dead Indian”
  17. EIGHT
  18. The Rise and Fall of Donehogawa
  19. NINE
  20. Cochise and the Apache Guerrillas
  21. TEN
  22. The Ordeal of Captain Jack
  23. ELEVEN
  24. The War to Save the Buffalo
  25. TWELVE
  26. The War for the Black Hills
  27. THIRTEEN
  28. The Flight of the Nez Percés
  29. FOURTEEN
  30. Cheyenne Exodus
  31. FIFTEEN
  32. Standing Bear Becomes a Person
  33. SIXTEEN
  34. “The Utes Must Go!”
  35. SEVENTEEN
  36. The Last of the Apache Chiefs
  37. EIGHTEEN
  38. Dance of the Ghosts
  39. NINETEEN
  40. Wounded Knee
  41. I. April: MOON WHEN THE GEESE LAY EGGS
  42. II. May: PLANTING MOON
  43. III June: MOON WHEN THE GREEN GRASS IS UP
  44. IV. July: MOON WHEN THE CHOKECHERRIES ARE RIPE
  45. V. August: MOON WHEN THE GEESE SHED THEIR FEATHERS
  46. VI. September: DRYING GRASS MOON
  47. VII. October: HARVEST MOON
  48. VIII. November: DEER RUTTING MOON
  49. IX. December: MOON WHEN THE DEER SHED THEIR HORNS
  50. X. January: MOON OF STRONG COLD
  51. XI: AFTERMATH
  52. Book One The Easterners
  53. Book Two The Westerners
  54. Book Three The Survivors
  55. A Biography of Dee Brown

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