The Patriot Chiefs

The Patriot Chiefs
Author: Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 385
Release: 1993-11-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0140234632

“A valuable chronicle of the greatness and majesty of the Indian chiefs.”—Christian Science Monitor Told through the life stories of nine Indian chiefs, this narrative depicts the American Indian effort to preserve a heritage and resist the changes brought by the white man. Hiawatha, King Philip, Popé, Pontiac, Tecumseh, Osceola, Black Hawk, Crazy Horse, and Chief Joseph each represent different tribal backgrounds, different times and places, and different aspects of Indian leadership. Soldiers, philosophers, orators, and statesmen, these leaders were the patriots of their people. Their heroic and tragic stories comprise an integral part of American history. “Josephy tells his nine lives with . . . a cold-blooded historian’s perspective, sorrowing for both white man and red.”—Time “More than a series of biographical sketches . . . Josephy places his Indian heroes in a broad historical setting and pictures them as fighters for freedom in the American tradition.”—The New York Times Book Review

Indian Resistance

Indian Resistance
Author: Jean Strouse
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1993
Genre: Indians of North America
ISBN: 9781566960885

This Jackdaw and its documents, including a Catlin map,

Indian Resistance

Indian Resistance
Author: Alvin M. Josephy
Publisher: Viking Adult
Total Pages: 19
Release: 1972
Genre: Indians of North America Government relations
ISBN: 9780670395170

From the landing of the Pilgrims on Plymouth Rock to the occupation of Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay by Indians in 1970, the relationships of white & Indian have been a continuing story of misunderstanding. The colonists, with their European concepts of private property, never comprehended the Indian outlook that the land belonged to all mankind. And although some settlers came to America to find religious freedom, they had no understanding of or tolerance for the Indians' philosophy of life. They consistently regarded the Indians as inferior people. Even today, men of good will differ widely on the methods of treating the "Indian problem" or, as the Indians with great merit describe it, the "white problem." Six Broadsheet Essays * King Philip's War * Tecumseh & Expansion Across the Allegheny * Manifest Destiny & its Opponents * Non-resistant Chiefs * American Expansion on the Plains * Modem Indian Policy & Indian Resistance Today Twelve Historical Documents * Pages from the first Bible printed in America, 1663. * Paul Revere's drawing of King Philip. * An engraving, "How They Catch Fish," from Thomas Hariot's "Briefe & True Report of the new Found Land of Virginia." * An engraving, "The Town of Secotan," an Indian village. * Pages from Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia (London, 1787) telling the tragedy of Logan, a Mingo chief. * Portraits of great Indian leaders: The Prophet (Tecumseh's brother), Osceola, Sequoya & Keokuk. * The frontispiece & title page of the autobiography of the great Sauk & Fox chieftain, Black Hawk. * Part of a letter written in the Nez Perce language by a chief. * An illustration of Chief Joseph & his followers being pursued by U.S. Troops in mountains of Idaho in 1877. * The last page of a Hopi petition in 1894 asking the government for a survey of promised grazing lands. * Remington's painting of the Ghost Dance of Oglala Sioux. * A map of the Indian tribes, drawn in 1865 by George Catlin,

American Indian Leaders

American Indian Leaders
Author: Russell David Edmunds
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 294
Release: 1980-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780803267053

Diverse patterns and goals of leadership are illuminated in portraits of twelve Indian leaders since the colonial era including Old Briton, Joseph Brant, Sitting Bull, Quanah Parker, Carlos Montezuma, and Peter MacDonald

A Companion to Custer and the Little Bighorn Campaign

A Companion to Custer and the Little Bighorn Campaign
Author: Brad D. Lookingbill
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 544
Release: 2019-09-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 1119129737

An accessible and authoritative overview of the scholarship that has shaped our understanding of one of the most iconic battles in the history of the American West Combines contributions from an array of respected scholars, historians, and battlefield scientists Outlines the political and cultural conditions that laid the foundation for the Centennial Campaign and examines how George Armstrong Custer became its figurehead Provides a detailed analysis of the battle maneuverings at Little Bighorn, paying special attention to Indian testimony from the battlefield Concludes with a section examining how the Battle of Little Bighorn has been mythologized and its pervading influence on American culture

American Indians

American Indians
Author: Jack Utter
Publisher:
Total Pages: 522
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780806133133

Answer to today's questions.

The Indian Chief as Tragic Hero

The Indian Chief as Tragic Hero
Author: Gordon M. Sayre
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2006-05-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 0807877018

The leaders of anticolonial wars of resistance--Metacom, Pontiac, Tecumseh, and Cuauhtemoc--spread fear across the frontiers of North America. Yet once defeated, these men became iconic martyrs for postcolonial national identity in Canada, the United States, and Mexico. By the early 1800s a craze arose for Indian tragedy on the U.S. stage, such as John Augustus Stone's Metamora, and for Indian biographies as national historiography, such as the writings of Benjamin Drake, Francis Parkman, and William Apess. With chapters on seven major resistance struggles, including the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and the Natchez Massacre of 1729, The Indian Chief as Tragic Hero offers an analysis of not only the tragedies and epics written about these leaders, but also their own speeches and strategies, as recorded in archival sources and narratives by adversaries including Hernan Cortes, Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, Joseph Doddridge, Robert Rogers, and William Henry Harrison. Sayre concludes that these tragedies and epics about Native resistance laid the foundation for revolutionary culture and historiography in the three modern nations of North America, and that, at odds with the trope of the complaisant "vanishing Indian," these leaders presented colonizers with a cathartic reproof of past injustices.

American Military Leaders

American Military Leaders
Author: John C. Fredriksen
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 943
Release: 1999-06-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 1576074692

A comprehensive collection of biographies of the most prominent military leaders in American history. American Military Leaders contains over 400 A–Z biographies of individuals such as Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, who ended hundreds of years of tradition by allowing women to serve on Navy ships; and, Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox, whose rules of clandestine warfare are still followed by the U.S. Special Forces. Coverage centers on the outstanding generals, sergeants, fighter aces, militiamen, theorists, doctors, and nurses who make up America's military history. This volume presents their backgrounds, contributions, and significance to America's fortunes in war. This title also cites works for further research, includes a list of leaders organized by their military titles, and a comprehensive index.