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"The bloody Battle of Tippecanoe was only the beginning. It's 1811 and President James Madison has ordered the destruction of Shawnee warrior chief Tecumseh's alliance of tribes in the Great Lakes region. But while General William Henry Harrison would win this fight, the armed conflict between Native Americans and the newly formed United States would rage on for decades. Bestselling authors Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard venture through the fraught...

"In 1876, Lakota chief Crazy Horse helped lead his people's resistance against the white man's invasion of the northern Great Plains. One of the leaders of the US military forces was Army Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer. The men had long been enemies. At the height of the war, when tribalism had reached its peak, they crossed paths for the last time. In this action-packed double biography, S. D. Nelson draws fascinating parallels between Crazy Horse...

"Evoking the spirit and danger of the early American West, this is the story of the Battle of Beecher Island, pitting an outnumbered United States Army patrol against six hundred Native warriors, where heroism on both sides of the conflict captures the vital themes at play on the American frontier"--

Indian War, Veterans presents the first comprehensive collection of veteran reminiscences, the vast majority of which have never seen wide circulation. The depth and breadth of coverage is truly monumental, from fighting with Custer and the mutilation of the dead at Little Bighorn, to the Fetterman fight, the Yellowstone Expedition of 1873, battles at Powder River and Rosebud Creek, fighting Crazy Horse in the Wolf Mountains, Geronimo and the Apache...

In this new 2022 high-definition program, learn all about the big events that led up to the end of the American-Indian Wars and the devastating consequences for the Indigenous people. What was the Indian Peace Commission? What was the Treaty of Fort Laramie? What was Custer's Last Stand? How did the Battle of the Little Bighorn lead to the Wounded Knee Massacre? The answers to these questions and more are covered in-depth with detailed graphics, engaging...

Originally released in 1986 as Renegade Tribe, this award-winning title sensitively analyzes the compelling saga of the Great Columbia Plateau's Snake River-Palouse. These resilient tribal people resisted settler colonialism and fought tenaciously to preserve their way of life. They never abandoned the struggle for tribal sovereignty, opposing the Walla Walla Treaties of 1855 and fighting as patriots during the 1855-58 Plateau Indian War. Snake River-Palouse...

"Examines the unique circumstances and common elements of ten significant massacres committed by U.S. Army units against American Indians, and presents them as part of a larger pattern of U.S. military aggression"--