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Indian leaders who helped shape America

Title: Indian leaders who helped shape America / by Ralph W. Andrews.
Author: Andrews, Ralph W. (Ralph Warren), 1897-1988.
Publication: Seattle : Superior Pub. Co., ©1971.

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Description

184 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits; 28 cm

Summary

History and biography of Indian tribes and their leaders.

Subject

Genre/Form

Biography
Portrait.
portraits.
Biographies.
Portraits.

Bibliography (note)

Bibliography: p. 182.

Contents

1. Enemies everywhere -- 2. Indians fail to rout English -- Uneasy truce between Virginia colonists and Indians marked by violations and violence -- 3. For and against the king -- Puritan peace broken by Pequot and King Philip wars -- 4. Hopes of five nations ruined -- Iroquois launch war of annihilation against Hurons and other tribes, weakening themselves in face of French and English colonists -- 5. The frontier moves west -- Pontiac unites Indian tribes and leads them against British -- 6. Revolt against the king -- Indians suffer further defeat and humiliation in colonists' defiance of British authority -- 7. "This far and no father" -- Under Little Turtle and Tecumseh, Ohio Valley Indians make desperate attempt to halt white emigration -- 8. "These lands are ours!" -- Rebellious Creeks and Seminoles make final effort to hold Southeastern half of America -- 9. Hate takes up the hatchet -- Black Hawk rallies Sauk and Fox forces to avenge Treaty of 1804 in face of certain defeat and humiliation -- 10. A nation broken and betrayed -- Highly civilized Cherokees strive in vain for independence -- 11. "Let them eat grass!" -- Breakdown of treaties and government delays in payments to Sioux lead to uprising in Minnesota -- 12. Dust and death on the prairies -- Indians of the Southern Plains fight to keep their way of life inviolate -- 13. More blood on the prairie grass -- Sioux in the north, Cheyennes, Comanches, Kiowas, Apaches in the south delay final surrender to military forces -- 14. Tragedy rides with final struggles -- Nez Perce Chief Joseph and Apache Geronimo make last stands of western Indians.

LCCN

76160187

OCLC

ocm00298553
298553
SCSB-140724

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Princeton University Library