From Hiawatha To Geronimo: The Assault on Native America - Softcover

Lonergan, Tom

 
9781491715628: From Hiawatha To Geronimo: The Assault on Native America
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1491715626 ISBN 13: 9781491715628
Verlag: iUniverse, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

Spanning three centuries, from Champlain's first encounter in 1609 with primitive Iroquois warriors to Geronimo's death in 1909, Hiawatha to Geronimo chronicles the demise of the native peoples of North America to the relentless encroachment of white European settlement. From the forests of New England to the deserts of the American southwest, the indigenous peoples of America were driven mercilessly from the lands they had roamed for thousands of years. This is their story, the forgotten tribes and their heroic leaders: King Phillip, Blue Jacket, Tecumseh, Osceola, Red Cloud, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Cochise, Geronimo. Each of these, along with countless others, rose up to take the torch from his predecessor in a near-continuous cycle of conflict that spanned the continent and all but eradicated a people and a culture. Taken together with our nation's terrible history of slavery, the assault by whites on Native America formed the second of the great pillars of the American Tragedy. It was perhaps the most egregious of our Nation's Original Sins.

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Spanning three centuries, from Champlain's first encounter in 1609 with primitive Iroquois warriors to Geronimo's death in 1909, Hiawatha to Geronimo chronicles the demise of the native peoples of North America to the relentless encroachment of white European settlement. From the forests of New England to the deserts of the American southwest, the indigenous peoples of America were driven mercilessly from the lands they had roamed for thousands of years. This is their story, the forgotten tribes and their heroic leaders: King Phillip, Blue Jacket, Tecumseh, Osceola, Red Cloud, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Cochise, Geronimo. Each of these, along with countless others, rose up to take the torch from his predecessor in a near-continuous cycle of conflict that spanned the continent and all but eradicated a people and a culture. Taken together with our nation's terrible history of slavery, the assault by whites on Native America formed the second of the great pillars of the American Tragedy. It was perhaps the most egregious of our Nation's Original Sins.

Biografía del autor

Tom Lonergan is a writer and historian. He has previously published a biography of Henry Knox, George Washington's General of Artillery, as well as an historical novel on the life and achievements of Martha Coston, inventor of the night signal flare. He works as a guide at the Nantucket Shipwreck Museum in Nantucket, Massachusetts where he resides with his wife Jody.

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Verlag
iUniverse
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1491715626
ISBN 13 
9781491715628
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
336
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