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  • The Black Hawk War: The Last War East of the Mississippi

    by Daniel R. Whitcomb ...
    American treaty makers spent forty years hunting for "the chief" of the Sauk and never found him. A Sauk civil chief could only persuade, a war leader could lead only the young men who chose to follow, and the fields, the lodges and the stored corn belonged to the women. So when a few Sauk and Meskwaki men signed away the Rock River country at St. Louis in 1804, many at Saukenuk, a town of some ... Read more

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  • The Pawnee: Earth Lodges, the Stars, and the Scouts

    by Daniel R. Whitcomb ...
    Why did every Pawnee earth lodge open to the east? Because the bundles were opened facing the rising sun, and because the Morning Star, the great light that climbs the sky before dawn, was the power that had brought the corn, the people and the world itself out of the dark. A man who built his doorway facing west was telling his neighbors something about himself, and they would not like what it ... Read more

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  • The Last of the Buffalo: Plains Ecology and the War for the Grasslands

    by Daniel R. Whitcomb ...
    In a basin in the Texas Panhandle, at the foot of a sandstone ledge thirty feet high, lies a fan of bison bones so old that grass has grown up between the molars of a jaw, died, and grown up again. Someone drove a whole herd over that ledge a very long time ago. In the winter of 1874 the bones were still there, and the hide hunters were on their way.Everything in that country ran on grass: blue ... Read more

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  • Powder River: Red Cloud's War and the Fight for the Bighorn Country

    by Daniel R. Whitcomb ...
    In June 1863, John Bozeman knelt to drink at a ford on the North Platte while John Jacobs studied the country to the north: grass, cottonwood bottoms, blue bluffs, and not a single wagon track. The new gold camps at Virginia City lay beyond it, and the two men meant to cut a road to them through the valleys of the Powder and the Tongue and across the Bighorn, saving travelers hundreds of miles. ... Read more

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  • The Great Law of Peace: The Iroquois Confederacy and the Making of the Northeast

    by Daniel R. Whitcomb ...
    The names come one at a time: a hunting party found in a clearing with its bows broken, a woman carried off, a man cut down among the cattails. In the Mohawk Valley some six centuries ago, each name is a debt. A grieving family can close the wound only with a captive, adopted into the dead man's place or killed to stand in for him, and every captive taken opens a new wound in a village on the far ... Read more

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  • The Medicine Line: Native Nations and the U.S.-Canada Border

    by Daniel R. Whitcomb ...
    No Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabe or Wabanaki delegate sat at the table in Paris on September 3, 1783, when American and British diplomats ended a war by drawing a boundary through the middle of their world. It ran through the Great Lakes to the Lake of the Woods and then due west toward a Mississippi that did not lie where the negotiators' map put it. Later treaties carried it west along the forty ... Read more

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  • Fallen Timbers: Little Turtle, St. Clair, and the Fight for Ohio

    by Daniel R. Whitcomb ...
    From Kekionga, where the St. Joseph and the St. Marys join to make the Maumee, a canoe could reach Lake Erie, Detroit and Albany, or the Wabash, the Mississippi and New Orleans. The Myaamia, the Miami, had built their principal town at that hinge on purpose. In the middle of the eighteenth century it was one of the busiest places between the Great Lakes and the Ohio, a town of bark lodges and ... Read more

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  • The Everglades War: Osceola, the Seminoles, and America's Longest Indian War

    by Daniel R. Whitcombe ...
    The first shots were American. In late November 1817, soldiers crossed the Flint River at dawn to seize Neamathla, the Fowltown chief who had refused to give up his people's land or stop sheltering fugitives from Georgia. He got away, and they burned his town. Nobody in Washington called it a war yet.Behind that raid lay the Creek War and the 1814 Treaty of Fort Jackson, which took twenty-three ... Read more

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  • The Long Hunter and the Shawnee Towns: Simon Kenton's Kentucky War

    by Daniel R. Whitcomb ...
    Simon Butler was not his real name. The young scout who watched the woods around Boone's Kentucky settlements in the 1770s was Simon Kenton, and in 1771, still in his teens, he had run from Fauquier County, Virginia, believing he had killed a man in a fight over a girl. He crossed the Alleghenies on foot with no horse, no money and no plan beyond getting far enough west that no sheriff would ... Read more

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  • The School on the Prairie: Carlisle and the War on Native Childhood

    by Daniel R. Whitcomb ...
    The girl counted telegraph poles because there was nothing else to count. For two days the train had carried her east, past Chicago and into the small, fenced, rain-green farm country of Pennsylvania. The only name she had left was the one a stranger had written in a book in a tent on the Rosebud, sounding out her father's name and flattening it to fit on a line.She was one of eighty-two Lakota ... Read more

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  • Sand Creek: The Colorado War, 1851-1865

    by Daniel R. Whitcomb ...
    A dog could drag eighty pounds. A horse could drag three hundred and cover twenty miles before breakfast. For a century the Tsitsistas, the Cheyenne, and their Arapaho allies had been remaking their lives around that difference, and by the 1840s the country between the Platte and the Arkansas was theirs: camps of hundreds strung along the Smoky Hill, horse herds in the thousands, and buffalo robes ... Read more

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  • Crazy Horse and the End of Lakota Freedom

    by Daniel R. Whitcomb ...
    In the last week of May 1866, a train of sixty or seventy wagons came grinding north out of the Platte bottomlands onto the new Bozeman Road, bound for the Montana gold camps, while Lakota men lay flat in the grass on the ridges above and counted them. The road cut straight through the Powder River country, the best buffalo range left on the northern Plains. That same spring Colonel Henry ... Read more

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