"With the end of the Civil War, the nation recommenced its expansion onto traditional Indian tribal lands, setting off a wide-ranging conflict that would last more than three decades. In an exploration of the wars and negotiations that destroyed tribal ways of life even as they made possible the emergence of the modern United States, Peter Cozzens gives us both sides in comprehensive and singularly intimate detail. He illuminates the encroachment experienced by the tribes and the tribal conflicts over whether to fight or make peace, and explores the squalid lives of soldiers posted to the frontier and the ethical quandaries faced by generals who often sympathized with their native enemies, "--Amazon.com.;Our children sometimes behave badly
Author(s): Peter Cozzens
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 544
Tags: History;Native Americans;CHEROKEES;Indians of North America;INDIAN REMOVAL;TRAIL OF TEARS;WESTERN;Oklahoma;Forcible relocation;Treaties;Human rights;Genocide
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraphs
Contents
List of Maps
Chronology
The Earth is Weeping
Prologue Our Children Sometimes Behave Badly
Part One
Chapter 1 The Plains Aflame
Chapter 2 Red Cloud’s War
Chapter 3 Warrior and Soldier
Chapter 4 Hancock’s War
Chapter 5 The Last Treaty
Chapter 6 Of Garryowen in Glory
Chapter 7 The Bloody Policy of Peace
Part Two
Chapter 8 Tragedy in the Lava Beds
Chapter 9 The Buffalo War
Chapter 10 No Rest, No Peace
Chapter 11 Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse
Chapter 12 The Thieves’ Road
Chapter 13 Guard Us Against All Misfortune
Chapter 14 Last Stand
Chapter 15 The Great Father’s Fury
Chapter 16 A Warrior I Have Been
Part Three
Chapter 17 I Will Fight No More Forever
Chapter 18 The Utes Must Go!
Chapter 19 Return to Apacheria
Chapter 20 Like So Many Vultures, Greedy for Blood
Chapter 21 Once I Moved Like the Wind
Part Four
Chapter 22 A Clash of Visions
Chapter 23 The Place of the Big Killings
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Illustration Credits
Picture Section
A Note About the Author
Also by Peter Cozzens
Copyright
