Treaties and Treachery

Treaties and Treachery
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 298
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ISBN-10 : 9780870045004
ISBN-13 : 0870045008
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis Treaties and Treachery by : Kurt R. Nelson

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press The seven years from 1853 to 1859 are probably more important to the Pacific Northwest than any period of its recorded history. It was in the 1850s that officials began carving the Oregon Territory into the states. It was the period when most Native American tribes signed treaties that were supposed to protect their future. It was also when the natives of the region learned that no matter what the treaties promised, they would have little control over their destiny. So they fought a hopeless battle to preserve their way of life. Both settlers and Natives Americans believed they were God’s chosen people. With hindsight, we can see with clarity the injustices done. But neither side can claim purity of action. Atrocities were committed by both. For almost every major tribe of the Northwest, the 1850s marked the end of their way of life. This is the story of how cultures clashed. This is the story of one corner of our country, and how its history shapes its course today.

The Glorious Qurán

The Glorious Qurán
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Publisher : eduright4all
Total Pages : 466
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Synopsis The Glorious Qurán by : Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Lord Roberts

Lord Roberts
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Total Pages : 384
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ISBN-10 : CHI:60816299
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Rating : 4/5 (99 Downloads)

Synopsis Lord Roberts by : Violet Brooke-Hunt

The Complete Concordance to Shakspeare

The Complete Concordance to Shakspeare
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Total Pages : 888
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105118236475
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Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis The Complete Concordance to Shakspeare by : Mary Cowden Clarke

The Earth Is Weeping

The Earth Is Weeping
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 601
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ISBN-10 : 9780307958051
ISBN-13 : 0307958051
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis The Earth Is Weeping by : Peter Cozzens

Bringing together Custer, Sherman, Grant, and other fascinating military and political figures, as well as great native leaders such as Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and Geronimo, this “sweeping work of narrative history” (San Francisco Chronicle) is the fullest account to date of how the West was won—and lost. After the Civil War the Indian Wars would last more than three decades, permanently altering the physical and political landscape of America. Peter Cozzens gives us both sides in comprehensive and singularly intimate detail. He illuminates the intertribal strife over whether to fight or make peace; explores the dreary, squalid lives of frontier soldiers and the imperatives of the Indian warrior culture; and describes the ethical quandaries faced by generals who often sympathized with their native enemies. In dramatically relating bloody and tragic events as varied as Wounded Knee, the Nez Perce War, the Sierra Madre campaign, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn, we encounter a pageant of fascinating characters, including Custer, Sherman, Grant, and a host of officers, soldiers, and Indian agents, as well as great native leaders such as Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Geronimo, and Red Cloud and the warriors they led. The Earth Is Weeping is a sweeping, definitive history of the battles and negotiations that destroyed the Indian way of life even as they paved the way for the emergence of the United States we know today.