500 Nations: An Illustrated History of North American IndiansThis is the stirring, crowded, epic story - laden with courageous deeds and dreams fulfilled and betrayed - of the hundreds of Indian nations that have inhabited our continent for more than 15,000 years and their centuries-long struggle with the Europeans who arrived in ever-increasing hordes after 1492. Here is American history from the Native American point of view - a long saga of friendship, treachery, war, and ultimately the loss of homeland that began when Columbus disembarked at Hispaniola among the Arawaks, and came to a climax when the last groups of Sioux moved onto a reservation following the battle of Wounded Knee in 1890. 500 Nations is a story of leaders, customs, political systems, and ways of life - of men and women whom we meet through their own words, and others whose achievements have been resurrected from memory, memoir, and ancient documents. |
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allies American Anasazi Apache Arawaks army attack Aztec bands battle became Black Kettle British brother buffalo Calusas camp Canyon century Cherokees Cheyenne chief civilization coast colonists colony Columbus corn Creek culture death dian Diné English Europeans expedition fight Florida force French gathering Hodenosaunee homeland horses hundred hunters hunting Ibid Indian nations Inuit Iroquois island killed Kiowa Kiskiacks Lake Lakota lands later leaders lived Menéndez Mexico military missionaries Mississippi Mochtezuma Mohawk mounds mountains Nez Perces North northern Oglala Ohio Olmecs Opechancanough painted Pathways Productions peace plains population Powhatan present-day Pueblo Quetzalcoatl Red Cloud reservation River Secotans Seneca settlers Shawnee ships Sioux slaves soldiers Soto South southern Spaniards Spanish Tecumseh Tenochtitlán Tenskwatawa Teotihuacán territory thousand Timucuan tion Tollan town trade treaty tribal tribes troops United Valley villages Wahunsonacock Wampanoag warriors Washington western white man's women Wounded Knee York Zuñi