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  • Mr. Jefferson's Hammer: William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian Policy

    William Henry Harrison and the Origins of American Indian Policy

    by Robert M. Owens ...
    Often remembered as the president who died shortly after taking office, William Henry Harrison remains misunderstood by most Americans. Before becoming the ninth president of the United States in 1841, Harrison was instrumental in shaping the early years of westward expansion. Robert M. Owens now explores that era through the lens of Harrison’s career, providing a new synthesis of his role in the ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Killing over Land

    Murder and Diplomacy on the Early American Frontier

    by Robert M. Owens ...
    In early America, interracial homicide—whites killing Native Americans, Native Americans killing whites—might result in a massive war on the frontier; or, if properly mediated, it might actually facilitate diplomatic relations, at least for a time. In Killing over Land, Robert M. Owens explores why and how such murders once played a key role in Indian affairs and how this role changed over time ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • ‘Indian Wars’ and the Struggle for Eastern North America, 1763–1842

    by Robert M. Owens ...
    Series series Seminar Studies
    ‘Indian Wars’ and the Struggle for Eastern North America, 1763–1842 examines the contest between Native Americans and Anglo-Americans for control of the lands east of the Mississippi River, through the lens of native attempts to form pan-Indian unions, and Anglo-Americans’ attempts to thwart them.The story begins in the wake of the Seven Years’ War and ends with the period of Indian Removal and ... Read more

    $72.99 CAD

  • Red Dreams, White Nightmares

    Pan-Indian Alliances in the Anglo-American Mind, 1763–1815

    by Robert M. Owens ...
    From the end of Pontiac’s War in 1763 through the War of 1812, fear—even paranoia—drove Anglo-American Indian policies. In Red Dreams, White Nightmares, Robert M. Owens views conflicts between whites and Natives in this era—invariably treated as discrete, regional affairs—as the inextricably related struggles they were.As this book makes clear, the Indian wars north of the Ohio River make sense ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

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    The War of 1812

    by James Laxer ...
    At the dawn of the nineteenth century, the British Empire is engaged in a titanic war with Napoleonic France for global supremacy. The American Republic is quickly expanding its territory along the western frontier, while native peoples struggle to protect their lands from the relentless wave of new settlers.Bestselling author and scholar James Laxer offers a fresh and compelling view of this ... Read more

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  • A History of the Indians of the United States

    by Angie Debo ...
    Series series The Civilization of the American Indian Series
    In 1906 when the Creek Indian Chitto Harjo was protesting the United States government's liquidation of his tribe's lands, he began his argument with an account of Indian history from the time of Columbus, "for, of course, a thing has to have a root before it can grow." Yet even today most intelligent non-Indian Americans have little knowledge of Indian history and affairs those lessons have not ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Tecumseh

    Shooting Star, Crouching Panther

    by Jim Poling Sr. ...
    Shawnee war chief Tecumseh dedicated his life to stopping American expansion and preserving the lands and cultures of North American Aboriginal peoples. He travelled relentlessly trying to build a confederation of tribes that would stop the territorial ambitions of the newly created United States of America.Tecumseh tried both diplomacy and battle to preserve his Ohio Valley homelands. When he ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Other Slavery

    The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America

    by Andrés Reséndez ...
    NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST | WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE. A landmark history—the sweeping story of the enslavement of tens of thousands of Indians across America, from the time of the conquistadors up to the early twentieth century.Since the time of Columbus, Indian slavery was illegal in much of the American continent. Yet, as Andrés Reséndez illuminates in his myth-shattering The Other ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • 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

    $13.99 CAD

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  • The Lakotas and the Black Hills

    The Struggle for Sacred Ground

    by Jeffrey Ostler ...
    The story of the Lakota Sioux's loss of their spiritual homelands and their remarkable legal battle to regain itThe Lakota Indians counted among their number some of the most famous Native Americans, including Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. Their homeland was in the magnificent Black Hills in South Dakota, where they found plentiful game and held religious ceremonies at charged locations like Devil ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • The Scratch of a Pen

    1763 and the Transformation of North America

    by Colin G. Calloway ...
    Series series Pivotal Moments in American History
    In this superb volume in Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments series, Colin Calloway reveals how the Treaty of Paris of 1763 had a profound effect on American history, setting in motion a cascade of unexpected consequences, as Indians and Europeans, settlers and frontiersmen, all struggled to adapt to new boundaries, new alignments, and new relationships. Britain now possessed a vast American empire ... Read more

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  • Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian

    The Crime That Should Haunt America

    by Gary Clayton Anderson ...
    Mention “ethnic cleansing” and most Americans are likely to think of “sectarian” or “tribal” conflict in some far-off locale plagued by unstable or corrupt government. According to historian Gary Clayton Anderson, however, the United States has its own legacy of ethnic cleansing, and it involves American Indians.In Ethnic Cleansing and the Indian, Anderson uses ethnic cleansing as an analytical ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD