| Description |
221 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
Turning points in world history |
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Turning points (Greenhaven Press)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-211) and index. |
| Contents |
DIFFERENT CULTURES WITH DIFFERENT VISIONS: Cultural differences lead to misconceptions and conflict / Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. -- Why White Americans had difficulty understanding Indian religion / George E. Tinker -- Less advanced economy and technology placed Indians at a disadvantage / Arrell M. Gibson -- Manifest destiny: The U.S. vision of expansion / James W. Davidson et al. -- Indian unity: a lost chance for survival / Richard White -- CRUCIAL CONFRONTATIONS BETWEEN INDIANS AND WHITES: The first battles between the United States and the Indians / John Tebbel and Keith Jennison -- A last gamble against steep odds: the Black Hawk War / Robert M. Utley and Wilcomb E. Washburn -- Custer and the conquest of the Sioux / Royal B. Hassrick -- The tragic flight of the Nez Perce / J. Jay Myers -- U.S. subjugatiion of the Apache and Navajo / Edward H. Spicer -- The Ghost Dance and Wounded Knee Massacre / Dee Brown -- THE DISASTROUS IMPACT OF WHITE CONQUEST: Whites exploited native cultures and natural resources / Wilber R. Jacobs -- The tactics and impact of Indian removal and relocation / Peter Farb -- Slaughter of the Buffalo, livelihood of the Plains tribes / Stephen Longstreet -- Indian cultures decimated by alcoholism and disease / Brian W. Dippie -- White efforts to Christianize Native Americans / Robert F. Berkhofer -- EPILOGUE: LEGACY OF THE INDIAN WARS: Assimilation versus self-determination: American Indians in the Twentieth Century / Carl Waldman. |
| Subject |
Indians of North America -- Government relations.
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Indians, Treatment of -- United States -- History.
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Indians of North America -- Wars.
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| Local Subject |
Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Government relations.
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Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Wars.
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Indigenous peoples, Treatment of -- United States -- History.
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| Added Author |
Nardo, Don, 1947-
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| ISBN |
1565109597 lib. alkaline paper |
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1565109589 paperback alkaline paper |
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