Landmark events in Native American history

Provides an account of the Black Hawk War, a conflict sparked in 1832 when elderly Sauk warrior Black Hawk led a band of Sauk and Mesquakie Indians--part of a group that had agreed to cede all the tribe's lands east of the Mississippi River to the U.S. government--back to their traditional homeland in Illinois to grow corn as they did every year.

Provides an account of the Black Hawk War, a conflict sparked in 1832 when elderly Sauk warrior Black Hawk led a band of Sauk and Mesquakie Indians--part of a group that had agreed to cede all the tribe's lands east of the Mississippi River to the U.S. government--back to their traditional homeland in Illinois to grow corn as they did every year.

Chronicles the seventeenth-century war that killed more than ten percent of the Native Americans and English colonists living in the region of New England, discussing the events that led to the conflict, as well as its legacy.

Traces the history of the Apaches in the American Southwest from the early sixteenth century to the end of resistance in 1886; and describes how their way of life changed as a result of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and American expansion into their territory.

Describes the Battle at Little Bighorn in southeastern Montana between Custer and his Seventh Cavalry and the Sioux and Cheyenne tribal members. The U.S. Army was defeated by the tribes and represented the "symbolic peak" of Sioux military power and freedom." Is accompanied by black-and-white photographs and several colorful illustrations.

Chronicles the events that led to the Navajo Nation's forced removal from their homeland to a reservation in eastern New Mexico in the 1860s, and discusses the lasting impact that relocation had on the Navajo psyche.

In the late winter and spring of 1973, a group of Native Americans voiced their grievances at Wounded Knee, South Dakota such as substandard living conditions on the reservation, corruption within the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and unfilled treaty provisions. This action by the American Indian Movement (AIM) led Congress to pass new legislation such as the Indian Self-Determination and the American Indian Religious Freedom Act.