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The American Indian Wars. [With illustrations and a map.]

Before the white man came, the vast region that is now the United States was inhabited by one million Native Americans, organized into six hundred distinct societies and scattered from the desolate ice wastes of the Far North to the hot swamps of the South; from the great forests of the East to the plains and deserts of the West. The first meetings between the Natives and white men in the southeast and along the Atlantic coast were not important historically in themselves, but they kindled the sparks that were to burn savagely for hundreds of years. The Native nations, living in peace and prosperity for the most part, despite intermittent but limited intertribal warfare, learned that the white invaders could not be trusted, and that their object was not the peaceful intercourse of trade, which the Natives offered them, but flagrant conquest. After four centuries of nearly continuous warfare, from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries, the Native Americans have been reduced numerically to less than 400,000, with their lands gone and their homes a series of reservations in, for the most part, the western United States. This book tells the story of their battle against the invaders of their land, and the price they were to pay for their ultimate defeat.

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  • "Before the white man came, the vast region that is now the United States was inhabited by one million Native Americans, organized into six hundred distinct societies and scattered from the desolate ice wastes of the Far North to the hot swamps of the South; from the great forests of the East to the plains and deserts of the West. The first meetings between the Natives and white men in the southeast and along the Atlantic coast were not important historically in themselves, but they kindled the sparks that were to burn savagely for hundreds of years. The Native nations, living in peace and prosperity for the most part, despite intermittent but limited intertribal warfare, learned that the white invaders could not be trusted, and that their object was not the peaceful intercourse of trade, which the Natives offered them, but flagrant conquest. After four centuries of nearly continuous warfare, from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries, the Native Americans have been reduced numerically to less than 400,000, with their lands gone and their homes a series of reservations in, for the most part, the western United States. This book tells the story of their battle against the invaders of their land, and the price they were to pay for their ultimate defeat."@en
  • "The conquest of America by the white man revealed in all its drama, cruelty, and heroism."
  • "After four centuries of nearly continuous warfare, from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries, Native Americans were reduced to numerically to less than 400,000, with lands taken, and movement forced to series of reservations. This book tells their story of their battle against the invaders of their land."@en

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  • "The American Indian Wars. [With illustrations and a map.]"@en
  • "The American Indian Wars"
  • "The American Indian Wars"@en
  • "Le guerre degli indiani d'America : dalla guerra di re Filippo a quella anglo-indiana, dalle guerre dei Seminole a Wounded Knee, la drammatica ed eroica lotta che questo grande popolo ingaggiò contro gli invasori europei per tentare di sopravvivere e resistere alla distruzione della loro cultura"
  • "Le guerre degli Indiani d'America : dalla guerra di re Filippo a quella anglo-indiana, dalle guerre dei Seminole a Wounded Knee, la drammatica ed eroica lotta che questo grande popolo ingaggiò contro gli invasori europei per tentare di sopravvivere"@it
  • "The American Indian wars"
  • "The American Indian wars"@en

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