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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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On November 20, 1969, a group of 89 Native Americans-most of them young activists in their twenties, led by Richard Oakes, LaNada Means, and others-crossed San Francisco Bay under the cover of darkness. They called themselves the "Indians of All Tribes." Their objective was to occupy the abandoned prison on Alcatraz Island ("The Rock"), a mile and a half across the treacherous waters. Under the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie between the U.S. and the...
63) The three-cornered war: the Union, the Confederacy, and native peoples in the fight for the West
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"A deeply-researched, dramatic, and character-driven narrative account of the violent struggle between Union and Confederate forces to claim the American West during the Civil War"--
Series
Way west volume 1
Publisher
Shanachie
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the colorful and frantic opening decades of expansion, from the 1840's down through the Civil War. Fewer than 20,000 white Americans lived west of the Mississippi River in 1845--when the pioneer movement and then the Gold Rush sent hundreds of thousands rushing across the continent in an expansion that would forever change the continent. With the white men came their technology which would pit them against the Native Americans and lead...
Series
Way west volume 3
Publisher
Shanachie
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
The War for the Black Hills follows the dramatic sequence of events that led up to the battle of the Little Big Horn in June of 1876. As buffalo by the million were exterminated from the Great Plains, and as new railroads cut ever more deeply into the Indians' dwindling domain, some Native Americans, Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull among them, remained determined to hold on at all costs to their old way of life. By 1873, overbuilding on the Northern...
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