Chronicle of the Indian wars from colonial times to Wounded Knee
From the moment that Europeans landed on America's shores, they engaged in bloody conflict with the natives they encountered. Tensions and hostilities bred in the colonial wars with the Spanish, English, French, and Dutch would lead inevitably to the later wars of the removal period, skirmishes...
| Main Author: | Axelrod, Alan, 1952- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Prentice Hall General Reference,
©1993.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1.
- Black legend, red men: new Spain (1492-1751)
- Ch. 2.
- "To subdue the wilde salvages:" Jamestown and the southern settlements (1607-1671)
- Ch. 3.
- Trouble in New Canaan: the Pequot War (1634-1638)
- Ch. 4.
- New England bleeds: King Philip's War (1675-1676)
- Ch. 5.
- Trade and tyranny: the Dutch-Indian Wars (1626-1664)
- Ch. 6.
- Iroquoian imperialism: the Beaver Wars (1638-1684)
- Ch. 7.
- Clients, allies, enemies, and a demagogue: the Indian War of 1675-1676
- Ch. 8.
- Old world enmities, new world battles: the wars of King William and Queen Anne (1688-1713)
- Ch. 9.
- Desperate resistance: the Tuscarora and Yamassee Wars (1710-1716)
- Ch. 10.
- An ear and an empire: the Fox Resistance, King George's War, and the Chickasaw Resistance (1712-1748)
- Ch. 11.
- Paths of glory: the period of the French and Indian War (1749-1763)
- Ch. 12.
- Coda and prelude: the epoch of Pontiac's Rebellion, the Paxton Riots, and Lord Dunmore's War (1760-1774)
- Ch. 13.
- White war, red blood, the revolutionary period (1774-1784)
- Ch. 14.
- After the Revolution: Little Turtle's War (1780-1795)
- Ch. 15.
- Forlorn prophecy: the period of Tecumseh and the War of 1812 (1805-1814)
- Ch. 16.
- Wars of the removal: the South (1812-1858)
- Ch. 17.
- Wars of the removal: the Old Northwest (1812-1833)
- Ch. 18.
- The wars for the West: overture (1840s-1850s)
- Ch. 19.
- Early wars in the Far West (1850-1859)
- Ch. 20.
- On the eve of civil war (1851-1860)
- Ch. 21.
- Blue, gray, and red: the Apache Uprising and Navajo War (1861-1864)
- Ch. 22.
- Blue, gray and red: the Santee Sioux Uprising, the Shoshoni War, and the Cheyenne-Arapaho War (1862-1865)
- Ch. 23.
- Wars on the plains (1860-1869)
- Ch. 24.
- The fate of "conquest by kindness": the Snake War, the Modoc War, and the Red River War (1866-1875)
- Ch. 25.
- The Northern Plains and the Northwest: the Sioux War for the Black Hills and the pursuit of the Nez Perces (1876-1881)
- Ch. 26.
- Wars against the Bannocks, Sheepeaters, and Utes (1878-1879)
- Ch. 27.
- The Apache epoch (1870-1886)
- Epilogue: Ghost Dance and Wounded Knee.