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  • The Shawnee

    by Jerry E. Clark ...
    Many Indian tribes claimed Kentucky as hunting territory in the eighteenth century, though for the most part their villages were built elsewhere. For the Shawnee, whose homeland was in the Ohio and Cumberland valleys, Kentucky was an essential source of game, and the skins and furs were vital for trade. When Daniel Boone explored Kentucky in 1769, a band of Shawnee warned him they would not ... Read more

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  • The Wild Frontier

    Atrocities During the American-Indian War from Jamestown Colony to Wounded Knee

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    The real story of the ordeal experienced by both settlers and Indians during the Europeans' great migration west across America, from the colonies to California, has been almost completely eliminated from the histories we now read. In truth, it was a horrifying and appalling experience. Nothing like it had ever happened anywhere else in the world.In The Wild Frontier, William M. Osborn discusses ... Read more

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  • Savages & Scoundrels

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  • The Last Indian War

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    by Elliott West ...
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  • Dreams of El Dorado

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  • The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears

    by Theda Perdue, Michael D. Green ...
    Today, a fraction of the Cherokee people remains in their traditional homeland in the southern Appalachians. Most Cherokees were forcibly relocated to eastern Oklahoma in the early nineteenth century. In 1830 the U.S. government shifted its policy from one of trying to assimilate American Indians to one of relocating them and proceeded to drive seventeen thousand Cherokee people west of the ... Read more

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  • The Element Encyclopedia of Native Americans

    An A to Z of Tribes, Culture, and History

    by Adele Nozedar ...
    A comprehensive guide to the history, culture, and religious beliefs and practices of America’s native people, The Element Encyclopedia of Native Americans tells the varied and colourful stories of the tribes, their greatest leaders, wars, pacts, and the long-lasting impact that their profound wisdom and spirituality has on the West today.Containing a fascinating and comprehensive list of A-Z ... Read more

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  • Rising Up from Indian Country

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  • The Ohio Frontier

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