Tragic encounters : the people's history of Native Americans / Page Smith.

"This work is not offered in any sense as a history of the American Indians or even a comprehensive account of white-Indian relations. It is, rather, an effort to suggest the nature of that interchange, of its inherent drama and abiding human interest; and to trace the hold that Indian culture has h...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Page (Author)
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint, [2015]
Subjects:
Indigenous peoples of North America > History.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Social life and customs.
Indians of North America.
Indians of North America > Social life and customs.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xii, 477 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Early encounters
  • The American Revolution
  • Frontier warfare
  • Sullivan's Expedition
  • Sandusky
  • Indians and the new Nation
  • The Westering impulse
  • Lewis and Clark
  • The Indian Removal
  • Pushing westward
  • George Catlin
  • The Indians of the Southwest
  • Jedediah Smith
  • Osborne Russell
  • The Northwest
  • The Sand Creek Massacre
  • Postwar relations
  • War in the Southwest
  • Scattered campaigns
  • The end of the Indian Wars
  • After Wounded Knee.