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Chronicles the story of a small band of Spanish explorers who became separated from their ships in Florida and began a trek across the continent during the early sixteenth century.

The adoption of firearms by Native Americans between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries marked a turning point in the history of North America's indigenous peoples -- a cultural earthquake so profound, says David Silverman, that its impact has yet to be adequately measured. Thundersticks reframes our understanding of Native Americans' historical relationship with guns, arguing against the notion that Indians prized these weapons more for the...

From the fall of Cahokia in the early fourteenth century to the ascendancy of the young United States in the early nineteenth century, Jacob Lee reinterprets the history of early North America by tracing the key role major midcontinental rivers and social networks played in linking Indian nations and European empires in a long, shared history of conquest and resistance. Long before Europeans set foot on the shores of North America, Siouan peoples...

Historical account of the Old World and the New, unlike Asia and Africa America never saw its colonizers leave.

"A landmark work of narrative history that shatters our previous Eurocentric understanding of the Age of Discovery by telling the story of the Indigenous Americans who journeyed across the Atlantic to Europe after 1492. We have long been taught to presume that modern global history began when the "Old World" encountered the "New", when Christopher Columbus "discovered" America in 1492. But, as Caroline Dodds Pennock conclusively shows in this groundbreaking...

"This book is the first ever to focus on the traffic in Indian slaves during the early years of the American South. The Indian slave trade was of central importance from the Carolina coast to the Mississippi Valley for nearly fifty years, linking southern lives and creating a whirlwind of violence and profit-making, argues Alan Gallay. He documents in vivid detail how the trade operated, the processes by which Europeans and Native Americans became...

"In his new preface to this paperback edition, the author observes, 'The Indian world has changed so substantially since the first publication of this book that some things contained in it seem new again.' Indeed, it seems that each generation of whites and Indians will have to read and reread Vine Deloria, Jr.'s manifesto for some time to come, before we absorb his special, ironic Indian point of view and comprehend what he tells us - with a great...

By the late 1800s the Indian Wars were over. The white man had successfully conquered the land and its people, but the tension that comes with crushing a civilization remained. The whites were still frightened of their former foes and the Indians searched for other worldly answers to rid them of their enemies. The combination of cultural differences and desperation set the stage for a deadly drama. This is the story of the tragedy at Wounded Knee....

This book follows Eleazer Williams across the early American republic and through the shifting spheres of the Iroquois in an era of dispossession. The author describes Williams as a "professional Indian," who cultivated many political interests and personas in order to survive during a time of shrinking options for native peoples.--Publisher's description.