It is a truism that "history is written by the victors" for the first time, this book described the opening of the West from the Indians' viewpoint. The Indians were herded off their ancestral lands into ever-shrinking reservations, and were starved and killed if they resisted. Again and again, promises made to the Indians fell victim to the ruthlessness and greed of settlers pushing westward to make new lives. During these three decades, America's population doubled from 31 million to 62 million. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos in 1860 and ending 30 years later with the massacre of Sioux men, women, and children at Wounded Knee in South Dakota, it tells how the American Indians lost their land and lives to a dynamically expanding white society. First published in 1970, this extraordinary book changed the way Americans think about the original inhabitants of their country.
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